Farming Simulator 22 Beginners Guide: 5 Things I WISH I Knew When Getting STARTED!

EIGHT minutes to get to the point? Geez, you ppl need to learn to stay concise and focused. The many times I have to just randomly skip forward on tutorial videos is because of all the yapping and unnecessary tangents. This video is, what, 50 minutes long. I watched it in Thirty... AND got all the info.

How do you walk so fast! I'm on PS4, and my dude walks so slow!

Just a hint. 50 min. Video for 5 tips is WAY TOO LONG

I like to buy the land. Harvest the field, and cut the grass. Sell the field back. Sell the yield to the mill. Buy the mill sell the flower to the bakery. Sell the mill, buy the bakery and wait the next month. Talk about maximizing your profit…. My $30k field of wheat turns onto $180-200k. Just from harvesting the wheat and canola fields the first month I make $200k. So that $200k can turn into a million after all the said and done. It’s too easy to make a MILLION in one year game time.

I started on FS19 on PS4, was a free game on PS Plus. Had to watch a good few tutorials. Didn't think I would get FS22, I ended up buying that. Thought I would stop there, but recently the new stuff coming out in FS25, I had to pre-order that! lol...but there are things that are still difficult for me, love watching tutorial, tips videos

Nice video i just got it so im trying to figure out what to do

Usually the best time to sell is the month before it says is the best. If I wait till the month the price is already dropping. Usually the best time is the month before late in the day.

Thank you so much for this guide which is not the generic tour guide the game offers.

As a beginner with no farming knowledge, I’ve watched a couple other videos before this and yours is the best one!

Thank you for the context around the processes and tips.

Your field ready for harvest state's it only going to yeild some 38%, and at the bottom, states zero fertilizer. However, being on the bottom mean's you should have fertilized prior, doing it now will ruin yield when running over it with the tracktor and fertilzer, thus adding it after the crop is grown becomes a moot point. Some field's ready for harvest will at the bottom have a zero plowing which should be zero "PLOWED". Becaues plowing after it's grown, will simple plow the entire crop under, thus zero yield.

If and when you are going to harvest a field, what ever the yield state's, is like it or not, what that current yield will be. Thus prior to planting, "ALWAYS" utilze the map, which will inform you as to it needing plowing, fertilizing, etc. etc. etc. first. Once seeded, except for weeding in it's earily growth, basically to late to do anyting else that wont't crush the product, and thus cause less yield.

In real life one see's or can view, field's with numerious tractor mark's. Basically there row's of seeding's are in row's. Thus allowing a farmer to do what ever they wish to the field without lessing any of the prospected yield. But then this is a game, so real physic's are not an issue.

In the day's of old, north of the frost line, no one cultivated, they only plowed. Plowing with 12 inch teeth would bring rock's to the surface, that the frost, which goes some 6 feet deep, push up near and to the top of the surface. Plowing brings them up, destone, get's rid of them for the year. But then next winter's frost will push more up. South of the frost line one can utilize either a shallow or deep cultivator, which when there's no frost, after the first time plowing, there's never going to be large rocks or stones. And thus a shallow or deep cultivator will bring up if there are any, to be destoned. Once a filed south of the frost line has been deep plowed and the rock's and stones removed. The field never need's to be "PLOWED" again, simply using a cultivator, and picking which like a roller, will push small stone back down a bit. Which then make any and all damage to a harvestor, considerably less.

In my youth some 75 year's ago, I use to assit in destoneing field's after plowing, and in as much as I lived in the middle of Minnesota, cultivation didn't work, one plowed each and every year. Which had to aspect's to it. One it plowed the last year's growth under, and brough up stones, rock's and even boulder's, Which then when there wasn't a machine, had to be picked up by hand and tossed into a trailer which at the time was a horse drawn wagon. Needless to say it was a long endevor doing 40 acre's every single year.

When the farmer I worked for, finally bought a tractor, the first attachment he bought along with it was a destoner. Paid me the same, but taking less time, I ended up making less money and had to get another farmere to hire me to drive and destone his field. Cultivator's are only of any usefullness, basically south of the frost line, where once the big boulder's, rock's and smaller stone's have been removed. They stay removed, which then one generally only roll's and add's fertilzer prior to planting. Weeding when first noticed, mean's not needing any herbicide. Which saves a lot of money and good for the enviroment when it doesn't seep into the water table or in part end up in your food.

Well done, quick question have you played any of the earlier versions of this game.

Great job! Finally, I found a channel with a great way of explaining things. Thanks!

I have a question. Rolling the field will give you 3-5% bonus. Will that bonus justify spending the money on a roller. Roller costs 40k+ but field bonus only adds couple hundred. Is it worth rolling your fields.

I look through the contracts that have large/expensive tractors and/or multiple tractors and I take them. then I forget the contract and use the hell out of the "barrowed" Equpment. 5 mill in tractors... FOR FREEEEEEEE!🤣

Thank you for this video. It was very informative, and it made me want to play the game even more..
With fs19, i didn't know what on earth to do (no pun intended, lol), and fs22 is a lot easier imo, i could be wrong, though. But your video was very enlightening. Thanks for the upload!!

What is the best thing to grow for beginners? It seems obvious with things like soy making the most, so is there any reason not to? Why would I grow wheat instead?

I like that, "there's no wrong way to play this game" from ultra realistic to infinite money and everything in between, I got a few completely different saves myself...

Short?

All good advice..mostly. : ) Starting in farm manager…. If you want to get rich quick so you can buy bigger “toys” and have develop a big farm... Borrow as much money as you can - the interest is low. Don’t spend it all - keep a couple of hundred thousand- you have to pay workers, interest, keep enough to replant etc etc. Buy big fields of the crops that return the most. Lease larger equipment for those larger fields. (Especially a good idea if you use the “lease to own” mod - you’re basically paying it off and can pay the balance and buy it at any point in the future). Fill your silo, cash in when prices max, pay back some loan, buy some of the gear, repeat for next season.
Then if you want to go over to the dark side you can do some field flipping… it’s a soft cheat, but the game makes it easy. On purpose I think. Buy field, harvest, sell field…buy new field, harvest it…. You get the idea.

You can go into setting an turn everything off. So getting stressed about lime an plowing is not necessary

Downloaded this and went straight on start from scratch hard mode clueless bought a huge field in middle of Alps mowed grass for my animals I'm going to have eventually found out I've made silage bails bought stuff for delivering logs found out I can't load trailer without knocking it on its side sold it bought a wood chipper can't find anywhere to sell chips apart from fellsbrun which after an hour of driving round I think is a mythical land don't own a delivery trailer for bails nor have any money and owe 500k to bank. Currently ploughing other people's land to get 55k for a woodchip selling place to sell chips to get a trailer to deliver my 200 bails and complete my path to redemption and get back in the game.

Last night I tried to lime a field that crops were already growing in, it seemed to not work. It still said, it needed Lime and it was not covered in white.

how do u open build mode on ps4?

Thank you for your excellent gameplay breakdown. I’ve been playing for quite a while and still picked up some great tips. Nicely done.

Really good starter video! I started with this farm and didn't have a clue where to start. I cropped and sold all my wheat. (Big mistake)
In my opinion....
Buy 20-30 chickens
Buy bakery to send all eggs to.
Sell 2 tractors and buy a second tractor so you only have 2x tractors.
Sell your car as its worth a fortune and by the jeep.
Make sure you upgrade the jeep to pull a large trailer then download a autoload trailer from the mods.
In my opinion at the beginning the speed of transporting goods was a problem.
After that do a few contracts but rent the equipment until you have enough for the grain mill...then purchase that.

Ty 👍
The game is abit lacking in the tutorial. Ive got this game for free on ps+ a few days ago. Played it a few hours with my daughter and ended up staying up way to late after she went to bed. Its really fun 😂

Did you just say five things you wish you knew about farm simulator and proceed to make a 55 minute video like some sort of asshole? Instantly blocked and I hope everyone else does too for this Clickbait of a title.

I have no idea how to play this game

Dude you explained it perfectly I was able to pick up lot from this video thank you 🙌🏾

Oilseed radish is good it counts as 1 fertilizer. It only takes 1 day to grow an then you cultivate an that's your fertilizer.

When i first started i was running around in the field stacking my bales by hand.

Off to see it now ❤

I thought you did a good job on the points you were making. I will admit I’m new at this game and I helped me understand the chart of the price fluctuation and storage of grain for a later selling date.

Another thing I will suggest early on is keep an eye on used market (%). That is a great place to get budget equipment and I'll use an example of my current game. I have the MF 8700 mod installed and including maintenance was half price of new for a 400hp tractor. Also I've focus on oil mill and lumber mill.

Great video and prefered medium to be honest.

Thank you for this video. I have watched multiple at this point and they bypass everything you went over, and get straight to strategies or it is implied we know the basic steps leading up to what they demonstrate. This was super helpful to someone who tried to figure it out alone on Easy and it was ... not so easy lol. Simulator games really just throw you in there!

Great intro, like you when I started. I knew nothing was just looking for something different to play. I love it now. I've been playing since FS 15, and every new version it gets better and better. My mates were like a "farming game", no way would I play that. Now, 4 of them play, and I could have sworen I saw my wife trying to plow a field, the other night lol.

If you own the production, do you only process your own inputs? YOu don't take wheat (for example) from everyone?

I found out by accident, borrow equipment for one contract and use the same equipment to complete other contracts after accepting contracts. Don't complete the borrowed equipment contract until you have completed the others.

Great video! Didn't need to watch really, but did enjoy watching even tho I did not learn anything new (not that I expected to). Really well made!

50 minutes for 5 things?! If you're going to make a tips video make it short. If you're making a let's play, make a let's play.

I recommend that those on farm manager go into build mode and place a generator based on what income you want to bring in. I always place the government funded sign which gives 8.4 million per month. Fast forward one day then delete the sign. But there are other signs or things in the mod hub you can install to quickly generate income

This game gets pretty grindy, I turned off a lot of the settings to do with weeds or the extra stuff. Not because I don't understand it, it's because I can't get the Helper to do the rolling. Why, Giants? Why? Why? Why? AI Helper is cool and all but if it won't go do a task I allocate it, I'm done trying to understand that aspect of the game.

The best place to build a farm on Elmcreek is between the covered bridge and field 11. I’ll die on this hill…

Useful information. My 5 year old son actually got my wife and I interested in this game lol. It has become quite addictive but very fascinating and interesting in how the game works. This game is just good clean family friendly fun fun fun. And, the base game is free on playstation plus this month 👍
Good job man!

Great tutorial vid but 1 thing i noticed is you were slightly wrong about the sell point you can purchase this via the buildings menu under production sell points this is because some of the maps wont have sertain things sutch as the map you are on may not have the quary but it can be built and for this u will need a sales point.. i hope this helps you aswell as others

Good video
I like to start from scratch and pay back the loan
I do contracts and work my way up starting with used equipment and go from thrre

I ain’t gonna lie. I’m not playing fs doing things from scratch like the grind time to do that on this game is forever, I got whole life to life an jobs to work. I only plays fs 19 an 22 now if I’m doing a money cheat ab buy whatever an do whatever that’s only way I’ll play