After a lot of work cutting down elms, and having sold potatoes to boot, we have some cash.. A bit above $50k currently. The elms got a bit too dominating, and we can use both the space, the money and a bit more sun.. We made a massive $34.316 selling the elms, trying to saw them into 6 meter bits. I think we cut down 14 trees in total, which would make the average money per tree $2.451. It paid insanely well, but it was a massive undertaking and none of us would really like to continue that path even with the good money.
And I get motion sickness working that chainsaw :/ $11.694 for the potatoes was also a good amount of money. Especially given the small field we grew them on. It was a lot of work to get them of the ground and to the seller though.
So what do we do with this extra cash? I feel like saving some money so we might be able to extend the farm and get a land plot extra..
Bud: Bacon! Bacon! Bacon!
You really want pigs do you.. Will you take the job of feeding and cleaning pigs?
Bud: Bacon! Bacon! Bacon!
Well.. Maybe we can build a small pig den, and save the rest of the money then..
Brenda: Cake! Cake! Cake!
So you do want flour do you.. You know it is possible to buy flour in town if you drive over there?.. Well well.. Being able to sell grains for extra profit would be nice too, so maybe we can build a mill, and then someday you might be able to start a bakery.. But you know.. We need more grains to make flour of, as we hardly produce more than the animals eat, so more land would be useful here too..
Laurie: Honey?
You too? Ok.. I guess we may be able to get some bees too.. Sounds like we'll be broke again in no-time...
Laurie: No.. Honey.. What are you thinking.. We're able to wait a bit longer..
Well.. Pigs need a lot of different stuff to eat, which would also benefit from more land.. We need more land to utilize a mill too, and it would be nice to have big enough fields to be able to earn a decent profit farming. I don't wanna become a logger. The pay is good but It's breaking my back.
Lets save up for the $85.000 to buy a neighboring land plot, and then we'll be able to get more profits from farming and we'll prioritize pigs and mill then. Honey cubes is a bit of an investment too.. We'll see once we've gotten a mill built..
Lets start selling our milk. Milk prices should be decent in January.. Sadly I couldn't get the milkman to drive out here, so we'll have to improvise a way to get the milk to the market.
https://farming-simulator.com/mod.php?l ... tle=fs2022
With a little help from some locals, we managed to make our own milk trailer. We washed that herbicide container over and over to be sure.. We welded a bit wrong, not taking into account the low hitch on our tractor, so it doesn't sit level, but it'll work.. It only takes 1000 liters so we'll have to drive some trips sadly.. Making it ourselves we assumed it would end up dirt cheap, but we actually ended up having to pay $1000 for it... That sounds hilarious comparing it to how cheap we got that International tractor.
We were really hoping to get the milkman to come to us instead.. But he didn't dare drive his fancy new 1977 Chevy C70 tanker out here..
(The one on the picture above is an '83 model, but from my internet searches it looks like it existed in 1977, likely launched in '77 as I find no older reference) We hoped to sneak in a fitting milk truck for free and roleplay that they fetched it for us, but sadly, the Chevy C70 mod I found https://fs22.com/farming-simulator-22-m ... 70-tanker/ didn't work with our milk fill point on the barn. I guess I coulda used a Mack truck and just used the build in MKS 32 trailer, but wanted to leave that as an upgrade for modern times.. And it doesn't really look that much of a milk truck either.. Grr.. And here I thought I struck gold finding a mod for a 1977 milk truck in 1977!!
Took some time to convince the milk man that we could deliver milk in a used herbicide tank. But after telling how much we've washed it, and with the short ride to the salespoint, cooling it on the way isn't critical, so finally we agreed. All in all we got $4.087 for the milk.. Not bad.. Sadly we $1.000 can be deducted for the milk trailer, but at least we can reuse that.. Cold here this week.. Luckily we at least have one tractor with a cab.