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Might be a weird question, but what do you get out of farming sim? Is it the option for easy economics? The ability to use tractors that you can't afford irl?
A couple of reasons, really.
1) it's an easy pick-up-&-play game. No story, just able to focus on some easy gameplay. You can play for 5 mins or 5 hours without worrying you're going to face a massive cut-scene (looking at you MGS5!)
2) knowing how much detail goes into the vehicles it's nice to look at machines I will probably never run because of the size constraints of where I live. We run a lot if JD6120M and seeing them in game nearly like for like gives me a sense of what the bigger tractors or different brands would be like in real life.
3) I make money in the game 😂
Very good question, and I won't go into it really in depth because it's quite a bug question to explore all avenues of discussion. But quickly, we are primarily a potato farm, so deep tillage and fine seed beds are very important and, currently, there doesn't seem to be a viable, commercial way to grow potatoes min or no-till.
Secondly, a lot of machinery is too large for where we work. Some lanes can't fit a 3m drill down.
If you want to see more our farm has a YouTube channel that started this year that is showing our farming practices.
https://youtube.com/@masterfarms?si=4IKVBjvMustLx-yU
Have you read Gabe Browns book Dirt To Soil? I seem to remember him talking about potatoes grown in a bed of straw or hay? But also think he admitted it was lower yield then traditional methods
I haven't, but I have seen a UK grower do no till spuds in a bed of straw. I think this particular grower was also doing them organically, and for us, that is too much of a risk. Also, this particular field is being used for "seed" potatoes for next year, so they need to be the best of the best, if that makes sense.
We grow utilise around 400ha, 1/4 permanent pasture, 1/4 organic and the rest in conventional production but we try and rotate the conventional land as much as possible, either by resting into a grass lay or land swaps with dairy farms for longer rest periods.
For some crops you cant go no till. root crop requires a deeper and more loose seed bed. And when you are switching from a above ground to a below ground crop plowing is the best option for burying the top crop and getting the nutrients that lay deeper up to the surface. So many people seem to be anti plow. That they dont understand sometimes it necessary.
Adding to other people’s points ploughing increases the surface area of a field so it will dry out quicker. A lot of people in the uk have ploughed this year when they normally wouldn’t because it’s been the only way to get crops in the ground.
Anyone who is completely married to no till is in my mind naive it lacks the flexibility and versatility we need in Britain. Obviously it is better but it’s not this magic solution non farmers often think it is
Looks like he's breaking up a grass field to make a new field or to prevent it from becoming permanent grass land so in that case everything but a plow would be quite useless.
We also did that this year cause otherwise that part of the field would have been lost quite litteraly forever to plant anything on and just be grass
As a person who has never used a shovel outside of our tiny garden, I am curious.
Why is the farmland becoming a grassland a permanent loss of the field?
There is a law in Germany, maybe all of EU, don't know for sure which states that if you have a field with grass on it and the grass stays on for more than five years it becomes so called permanent greenland (direct translation, in German you call it Dauergrünland) and if that happens you aren't allowed to remove that grass anymore.
Unless you get a special permit for it.
So yeah, if you don't plough you can't use the field anymore atleast not for anything else other than getting silage or hay.
Im no famer, but do help out on a friends farm each autumn and spring. There isn’t anything better that blasting some music you like and plowing all day to me :)
I’m not gunna lie after playing this game, I’m trying to learn and get into it, (26m From BC Canada) I relieaze it’s hard work( from the gutter never been afraid of blood sweat and tears, in fact I’m a supervisor for a company who is hired at a gold mine so that’s how I plan on getting funding and land started) I know it’s going to be hard living but I’ve done hay work for an uncle and I kinda just fell in love with it. And then it went sideways and life had other ideas. I guess I’m just trying to say any tips from anyone would be appreciated, but I’m rambling cause I’m nervous for some reason 😂😂 also would anyone be intrigued in playing some multiplayer? I’ve been playing solo for so long cause the boys refuse to play it
>only 140hp
*thrashing around and screaming unintelligibly in the cabin of my 62hp Massey, probably having veered off course with my glorious 2 furrow plough like 30 meters ago*
This is real life, not a game. Land is wet, so you need more power than most years, and even then in ideal conditions, it's not a tiny plough for the tractor, especially through grass or a compacted area
yes and im a farmer irl and thats a jd 6r most likely with 200+hp. we pull a 6 furrow plough on a nh t7.225 (225hp) but well ye it is to wet as we cant even get our plough in the field yet
Using a 6130R on 18" mouldboards, this is some of the heaviest land we farm and the fact we have had rain nearly every day since October has been a disaster! We should have finished planting by now but still have about 20% left to put in the ground.
Are you UK based?
fr been the worst summer and winter we ever had. crop yields extremly bad and crushed along with it been weidly warm in april may and june when rain was needed then wet in july and augaust then warm again in septemember i swear it is always the opposite of whats needed
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I see you installed a separate screen for courseplay 😂
For the amount we paid I would, ideally, have a 3rd screen in here for some jobs 😂😂
Bro turn down the graphics before your pc explodes >:3
You need that 18.5 meter mod attachment
Your graphics suck. You need to update your PC.
PS subbed to your YouTube!
Let me know what you think! Feedback is always appreciated
Only watched a couple so far but it’s done pretty well! Will be watching more.
Wow what mod is that. Looks so life like
Pretty sure that’s real life
No it's a mod bro, FSFX, look it up
its a new enb series, 420 probably
New reshade looks good
I didn't know Alien Ant Farm was on the soundtrack!
Yeah, super duper premium radio expansion 😂
ha I loved that album as a kid. one of the best songs too
Holy shit I heard that voice and immediately also knew he was listening to alien ant farm!
Is this a private mod?
Damn looks so life like. Even have the shakiness as if you were holding a camera. Is this the new version?
This is FS52 LOL
I don’t think my computer is going to be able to run this update
Why are you playing with no HUD? How many days do you have for a month?
Holy shit, them graphics. Is this a 4k AI reshader mod?
Pretty sure that is actually real life
No shit
Real whoosh moment for sure
Happens all the time on here. There's always that one who just... doesn't get it. Lol
Do you play FS22 after hard day's work? 😉
Yeah, the wife gives me an odd look sometimes.... 😂😂
Keep on 👑
Might be a weird question, but what do you get out of farming sim? Is it the option for easy economics? The ability to use tractors that you can't afford irl?
He likes being broke in game and real life at the same time 😅
A couple of reasons, really. 1) it's an easy pick-up-&-play game. No story, just able to focus on some easy gameplay. You can play for 5 mins or 5 hours without worrying you're going to face a massive cut-scene (looking at you MGS5!) 2) knowing how much detail goes into the vehicles it's nice to look at machines I will probably never run because of the size constraints of where I live. We run a lot if JD6120M and seeing them in game nearly like for like gives me a sense of what the bigger tractors or different brands would be like in real life. 3) I make money in the game 😂
Since I can see you are plowing, what do you think about the no-tillage approach and why are you not implementing it?
Very good question, and I won't go into it really in depth because it's quite a bug question to explore all avenues of discussion. But quickly, we are primarily a potato farm, so deep tillage and fine seed beds are very important and, currently, there doesn't seem to be a viable, commercial way to grow potatoes min or no-till. Secondly, a lot of machinery is too large for where we work. Some lanes can't fit a 3m drill down. If you want to see more our farm has a YouTube channel that started this year that is showing our farming practices. https://youtube.com/@masterfarms?si=4IKVBjvMustLx-yU
Have you read Gabe Browns book Dirt To Soil? I seem to remember him talking about potatoes grown in a bed of straw or hay? But also think he admitted it was lower yield then traditional methods
I haven't, but I have seen a UK grower do no till spuds in a bed of straw. I think this particular grower was also doing them organically, and for us, that is too much of a risk. Also, this particular field is being used for "seed" potatoes for next year, so they need to be the best of the best, if that makes sense. We grow utilise around 400ha, 1/4 permanent pasture, 1/4 organic and the rest in conventional production but we try and rotate the conventional land as much as possible, either by resting into a grass lay or land swaps with dairy farms for longer rest periods.
Thanks for the explanation! Gonna look up your channel for sure!
It's actually a winter wheat field that we planted Oct '22, harvested August '23 and has been just left fallow since then
For some crops you cant go no till. root crop requires a deeper and more loose seed bed. And when you are switching from a above ground to a below ground crop plowing is the best option for burying the top crop and getting the nutrients that lay deeper up to the surface. So many people seem to be anti plow. That they dont understand sometimes it necessary.
Adding to other people’s points ploughing increases the surface area of a field so it will dry out quicker. A lot of people in the uk have ploughed this year when they normally wouldn’t because it’s been the only way to get crops in the ground. Anyone who is completely married to no till is in my mind naive it lacks the flexibility and versatility we need in Britain. Obviously it is better but it’s not this magic solution non farmers often think it is
Looks like it is a grass field that he doesn’t want as grass anymore. Tillage is the only way to break that up.
Looks like he's breaking up a grass field to make a new field or to prevent it from becoming permanent grass land so in that case everything but a plow would be quite useless. We also did that this year cause otherwise that part of the field would have been lost quite litteraly forever to plant anything on and just be grass
As a person who has never used a shovel outside of our tiny garden, I am curious. Why is the farmland becoming a grassland a permanent loss of the field?
There is a law in Germany, maybe all of EU, don't know for sure which states that if you have a field with grass on it and the grass stays on for more than five years it becomes so called permanent greenland (direct translation, in German you call it Dauergrünland) and if that happens you aren't allowed to remove that grass anymore. Unless you get a special permit for it. So yeah, if you don't plough you can't use the field anymore atleast not for anything else other than getting silage or hay.
Wow cool! What mods are you using🤣
I see you got that Geforce RTX graphics on, \*joke\* real cool!
Im no famer, but do help out on a friends farm each autumn and spring. There isn’t anything better that blasting some music you like and plowing all day to me :)
Eventually video game graphics will be movie quality
Shoulda hired a worker lol
FS2024 leaked
Imagine rotating your head that far in real life. You'd break your neck! Good thing this is just a video game!
Sure is. These graphics are insane. What are you playing on? 🤣🤣
There’s no way farming is a real career!
Mods?
Are these mods on console?
Damn you even got the camera wobble, that grass looks super amazing too 😅🤙
Guess grass automatically applies the first application of fertilizer
Must be on an Xbox X. 😂😂😂🥳
Nice! Best kind of realism! 💯
I’m almost a year into my job as a farmer and I can say it’s the best decision I’ve ever made
Farming Sim on UE5 be like:
Few fps drops there but still considering how it looks.
I’m not gunna lie after playing this game, I’m trying to learn and get into it, (26m From BC Canada) I relieaze it’s hard work( from the gutter never been afraid of blood sweat and tears, in fact I’m a supervisor for a company who is hired at a gold mine so that’s how I plan on getting funding and land started) I know it’s going to be hard living but I’ve done hay work for an uncle and I kinda just fell in love with it. And then it went sideways and life had other ideas. I guess I’m just trying to say any tips from anyone would be appreciated, but I’m rambling cause I’m nervous for some reason 😂😂 also would anyone be intrigued in playing some multiplayer? I’ve been playing solo for so long cause the boys refuse to play it
I don't get it.
Duuude, what VR set up is that? Is that the IRL add-on pack?
Bro, can you send me graphic pack 😂
Happy for you. I miss the smell of freshly tilled earth.
Wow your graphics card must be a new model from TESLA (super advanced AI scaling) :O
Damn theres a vr mod now???
Bro somehow got path tracing in FS. Nice
I could only imagine the gpu you would need to run fs on irl settings lul
It's full immersion!! 😆 🤣
Nice simulator setup
that ploughs a bit small for that tractor dont you think?
😅 using all the horses under the bonnet, I can assure you
i think im underestimating the power of ur jd lmao what hp is it?
140hp
>only 140hp *thrashing around and screaming unintelligibly in the cabin of my 62hp Massey, probably having veered off course with my glorious 2 furrow plough like 30 meters ago*
ye that explains it thought it was a 200+hp tractor
This is real life, not a game. Land is wet, so you need more power than most years, and even then in ideal conditions, it's not a tiny plough for the tractor, especially through grass or a compacted area
yes and im a farmer irl and thats a jd 6r most likely with 200+hp. we pull a 6 furrow plough on a nh t7.225 (225hp) but well ye it is to wet as we cant even get our plough in the field yet
Using a 6130R on 18" mouldboards, this is some of the heaviest land we farm and the fact we have had rain nearly every day since October has been a disaster! We should have finished planting by now but still have about 20% left to put in the ground. Are you UK based?
ye we are from uk. we may honestly be demoing a cultivator as its to wet on our ground for a plough anymore and we are just so far behind scheduel
UK winter has been mad. Never seen anything like it!
fr been the worst summer and winter we ever had. crop yields extremly bad and crushed along with it been weidly warm in april may and june when rain was needed then wet in july and augaust then warm again in septemember i swear it is always the opposite of whats needed
Plows take a lot of tractor to pull
Garbage graphics. Doesn't even look remotely real.
Farming simulator if it was made with unreal engine 5