Sorry It's been a while, fall and early winter are extremely busy times for me IRL. I don't get much time to play so it either comes down to playing or updating here so I chose to wait and do one massive update to show all my progress thus far.
Last time I updated i promised the silage total, it was just shy of 500,000 liters
After corn silage we chopped around 200,000 liters of haylage
We put up a new shed and bought some new equipment
The shed is for our feeder operation, somewhere to keep a few pieces out of the rain
The Terra Gator is a great addition allowing us to take fertilizing contracts and start to make money to pay back our debts
The loader and telehandler are to help out on the farm, they are updates that will help out with an addition were about to talk about in a bit
We also purchased a trailer (truck was leased until a good option comes up)
Next up was the sunflower harvest, we ended up with about 75,000 liters.
My Brother helped out pulling the cart with the tractor we sold him, we're shorthanded currently as we weren't really planning to buy a field that we would have to harvest with a crop we wouldn't normally deal with
Then it was onto the soybean harvest. It wasn't what we wanted but with limited land comes limited choice, the total was 50,000 liters. Next year we plan to at least double that.
There's the replacement truck, it's a T800 Kenworth it's not the greatest shot but it's in there.
After beans we baled the straw, we sold 105 8000-liter bales.
Then my personal favorite, beet harvest. Another more disappointing quantity that we will be looking to more than double next year, 310,000 liters
We took a baling contract we wished we hadn't haha, couldn't resist though as it payed off my remaining debt and bank rolled the 524k loader.
Our total bales baled wrapped and hauled away was 996 6000-liter big squares
We rented the challenger baler for this job
We have also been doing fall tillage and drilling in winter wheat, canola, and barley
The picture below is what I mentioned earlier, why I needed a payloader and telehandler. I purchased field 1 and 4, field 1 came with an established pig operation and small grain farm (its where my player marker is in the first photo) shown in some of the photos below. It has 4 hopper bottom bins, one drying bin, two harvester silos for high moisture corn, a hayshed, a small shop, and two 500 head hog barns
This shows where the new operation is from my existing one in the southwest corner
I ended up buying 200 head of hogs
Lastly I am just readying myself for the corn harvest which is the last and our biggest. We got rid of the Demco grain cart we had been leasing and bought a used Kinze. There is another kind of shot of the T800 I bought
Bought 2 case tractors, an 1175 and a 1070 the 1070 is pictured here waiting for the corn to start coming in. Really needed some utility tractors after getting rid of the Massey we had due to it having far too many problems
Next update will be corn as while typing this the game is running and its ready to harvest but just waiting on rain to stop.