How profitable are cows?

[pigpen]

If a person is looking to get rich quick stay away from cows. If you have made a fortune and want to add another element to your game then cows are good. Just farming land can get boring. If you factor in the price of a cow pen and what it costs to place it along with the cows and equipment to feed them it will take a very long time to get your money back on them.

[Beastbubba]

Land, cows, enclosure, tractor, mowers, tedders, windrower, baler.... it would take forever just to break even doing nothing but cows. They are producing no where near the ammount they should for the timescale of the game. With seasons on 3 day season they might be about right at current lvls... but with at most 3days from sow to harvest they are way off....

As for manure, please... unless you have hundreds of cows you will not get enough to fertalize more than a tiny field every other harvest or so...

[Crazof]

The price for Slurry and manure at the bga would make you not want to spread it in the fields

[RazorTal0n]

I started out with silage and now i working in pigs chickens wnd horses slowly going to work in logging and then large scale corps. I started the game on start grom scratch an remaining on hard mode started out on x30 so o was constantly working. Now i expanding with more an more i bring the time down to x15 which giving me time to do nearly everything an still make it fun. Tho noted you don't get much slurry to do large fields. Looking forwardto doing cows soon even tho they don't pay huge amounts iy all adds up an is pretty much a passive income once you fed n cleaned them.

[InstaBuzz]

You can also sell any excess you have after looking after your fields to the Biogas Plant so again another source of income and profit to factor in. So don't only focus on the products you sell directly to the shops, look at the bigger picture and decide if animals are profitable and worth farming to you.

Are you sure about this? There is no pricing at all under manure or slurry in the price list. I know we could sell it before, but it was hardly worth the fuel cost. And now with no price listed for it at the biogas plant, i was thinking they took the option away to sell it.

[george.earlslight]

You can also sell any excess you have after looking after your fields to the Biogas Plant so again another source of income and profit to factor in. So don't only focus on the products you sell directly to the shops, look at the bigger picture and decide if animals are profitable and worth farming to you.

Are you sure about this? There is no pricing at all under manure or slurry in the price list. I know we could sell it before, but it was hardly worth the fuel cost. And now with no price listed for it at the biogas plant, i was thinking they took the option away to sell it.

You need to own the BGA to see prices and be able to sell there.

[InstaBuzz]

You can also sell any excess you have after looking after your fields to the Biogas Plant so again another source of income and profit to factor in. So don't only focus on the products you sell directly to the shops, look at the bigger picture and decide if animals are profitable and worth farming to you.

Are you sure about this? There is no pricing at all under manure or slurry in the price list. I know we could sell it before, but it was hardly worth the fuel cost. And now with no price listed for it at the biogas plant, i was thinking they took the option away to sell it.

You need to own the BGA to see prices and be able to sell there.

That sounds horrible.

[Corstaad]

It is, the game is out of whack with how much money is required. They didnt think any of this through before doing any of this. Now to "compensate" they'll make a dairy farm into a **** factory. Nobody in development thought that upping the feed requirement, lower milk sales, and making **** a valued commodity would change game balance? When you get to a point of having enough money to get a dairy the money is peanuts. They need to bring in someone with a agriculture business background.

[george.earlslight]

You need to own the BGA to see prices and be able to sell there.

That sounds horrible.

I never understood why they made it work like that either

[mackintosh]

Money has always been a weakness in all FS games. It takes a bit of time to get going, but sooner or later, we're all making money faster than we can spend it. They haven't been able to come up with a way to make the economy balanced over the years, so now they've come up with this idea.

[InstaBuzz]

The biogas plant that shares property with the lime station is 750k!!! By the time I can afford that, I don't have to worry about money. Let alone selling manure and slurry.

[Corstaad]

Did some brainstorming on this. It might make more sense just to feed Hay and not do anything with silage or tmr. You'd reduce the massive time mixing tmr. Easy to feed a bunch of cows on just hay. No need for fancy silage gear. Milk isnt important and cow reproduction isnt that important. Hay is easy to scale. Simply put silage is worth to much to make that 30% increase production to matter. You'd save on time, equipment, and placeables.

[InstaBuzz]

Isn't milk the only profit you get from cows? Outside of the byproducts.

[deddycantshoot]

milk,slurry and manure and more cows of course.

[deddycantshoot]

before the patch you got 500 per 1k liters for manure and 400 per 1k liters of slurry.But they have cut that back .But it still brings to much to spread on your fields.