I like the decision to make your own calls rather than outsourcing most ideas from suggestions. Personally I think it makes for more enjoyable videos. It's been fun following your challenge and seeing how it differs from my own broke to billionaire series thus far, good luck on the fresh start!

My recommendation, based on how I have made decent money in Game in the past, is to take contracts, where you borrow all the equipment, because usually it’s a very small hit to the overall payout. Then, you hire AI to do all the work for you. You can have three contracts running in base game at one time. Even using workers to do all of that, ultimately, you will make a profit. And by borrowing all the equipment from the farmer, you’re working for, you aren’t increasing the wear and tear on your own equipment. And, you then have time to work on whatever you want to work on while your workers are making you money.

Let's go a new billionaire series who's with me

Silage is always profitable and cheap to get into. Maybe cotton would be good too, cloths production even

I like to play 5x speed with two days in a month. I feel like it gives me the opportunity to take on larger projects, or multiple projects without really slowing down progression.

I suggest 1 day per month at 3x speed, since the series is gonna need to be a lot of years to get to 1 billion. Just hire a lot of workers to get everything done in 1 day (some months you can do 1x or 0.5x if needed). I just would like to avoid having multiple videos on the same month, cause it gets a bit boring, just hire a lot, it re-pays easily

Actually surprised you went with the sprayer rather than the spreader from before that had a HUGE coverage area.

Hey Pickle. Fertilizing contracts are very profitable. If you press B on and off while fertilizing you will still get the contract fulfilled while using only a fraction of the fertilizer. Also, contracts in general are profitable, since you can have AI doing the work while you focus on other stuff.

Henry Ford supposedly said "If the customers were allowed to decide, they'd have asked for a faster horse instead of an automobile". Sometimes, the consumer doesn't really know what they want aside from quality content. As long as you're passionate and inspired about what you're playing or creating, it's going to be quality. And conversely, if you end up forcing your way along while hating every moment, the quality won't be there.

i think you should get better contracts mod you can also do contracts and the more you do the more discounts you get on land they own by doing contracts.

i gotta say with this series, as much as i enjoy it we gotta be real with ourselves, 31 episodes in you didn't even have 200K in the bank, you're never going to get to $1 billion if you don't either; A) use generators extensively or B) get a lot of other players involved to help work the land with you. no matter how much land you buy there's only so much work one man can do in a real world hour, you're gonna hit a wall on exponential growth and be grinding thousands of hours, which you'd surely get tired of before you even get to 100 million, nevermind 1 billion. even if you somehow made 1 million every single hour you'd be spending 1000 hours on this, and i can promise you there's no way you even make that 1 million every single hour when you're working alone and without generators. in my opinion if you want to commit to this series (which i would be very happy about) you gotta get a good group of players together to run the farm with you, maybe from your discord server or some of your own personal friends. obviously to make real use of multiple players you'll first need to get the capital together for the land and equipment which means you could continue solo for a while, but as you make money you'd reinvest it into everything you need for a new player one by one, with enough people you'd cut down the time this will take massively, potentially into the low hundreds of hours rather than thousands. i worry if you don't do something like that this series is just dead in the water, based on your rate in the "first season" we'll be on episode 155,000 by the time you reach $1 billion

You could use this leasing mod. It makes game a bit easier but it's much more enjoyable and it's kinda satisfying when you lease piece of equipment for some time and finally make money to buy it of

the first thing you should get is gps and if you do more herbicide deffo get the extra things for the sprayer

The "ha" for land size stands for hectares😃 We use it here in South Africa😁🇿🇦 I'm excited about the new series!!

I’d say you can skip ahead to harvest but no skipping years for passive income. Every setting on minus field stones. My favorite for a fun play-through. I think the only thing that can really kill this play-through is huge time skips for income. The exception would be once you’ve really just hit a point where all your doing is grinding through years with no real major change to content ei you own all or nearly all fields and have some of the best most efficient equipment then I think skipping years would be completely understandable and a good way to end it.

No mods make this a slog. Faster productions and auto loaders are a must

Turning half the sprayer off is in the game but the keybinds are not set i think. Also you can change it to acres in options.

timescale x5 and 1 day months is fine and reasonable and keeps things from getting stale.

since you said before generators makes earning money easy yet boring I think you should try limiting the save to a 5 generator max (or some other number)

Thanks for these videos! I am new to Farming Simulator and I have enjoyed watching your videos. I am also watching your series with your dad. Those are also fun because I feel like I am learning more with insights from your dad. I harvested sugar beets for real. I would love to see some content with that if you can.

a tip im doing and its giving me good amount of money is i start a contract for harvesting and when i harvest all the stuff i cancel the contract (you lose money yes) but you can keep and sell the product when the best deal is for double the price (because the contract sell is 100% on a bad deal price)

I'm glad you decided to restart, when you brought the stuff over from the buy the map series i felt as though that kind of ruined the game.

Is there a reason to harvest the crops in your fields? You will be spending money to lease the equipment. Will you actually recoop that vs just wipe the crops and start your grass?

Red beet equipment are in vegetable equipment not with sugarbeet if I'm not mistaken And if you want to make money on fertilizing contract you should drop the rate that you apply to the minimum And transforming the wool if you go the sheep way is a good idea Love the serie by the way 😊

HA stands for hectars, which is the area of 100m x 100m which is a nice round 10000 m² ❤ The acre Americans use is about 4000 m² so each acre is 40 % of an hectar

Time scale 5X days per month 4. one day = 1 week

you can plow your fields together so they get bigger Nice video big like from me:D

I like the idea of sticking with silage, since it will feed your animals also. Those baling contracts always netted you bonus cash from extra bales in the last series, and they're easy. A mower, windrower, baler, and the baling trailer would be the extent of the equipment you'd need to own and your current tractor would handle anything in that respect you threw at it.

Oooooo a reset. Do you think I should keep going from 30? Or should I reset to day 1. Anyway for now I will say day 1 of saying love this NEW series!

I literally watched the first episode of this yesterday. I have to watch the whole thing.

there are sugar beets and red beet you have to use to vegetable technology to harvest red beet and its not fun

I really love this series!!!

Something that could be really cool would be to make a mostly self sustaining farm until it becomes unbearable. Have your two massive fields of grass to start, and your animals, then begin to do a grain or oat or something to feed your animals. Maybe something to try out, weigh out the finances and see what you think!

Here we go again. My, my how can I resist this series?

You should download the orchard and greenhouse mod that adds extra plants such as plums, apples, apricots, pears, and also extra greenhouse plants like cucumbers, and watermelons ect. The mod also adds a compost feature so you can also do some grass work to make it also. Hope my input helped 😄

A very easy profitable start is doing grass fields with bees and then buying sheep and doing hay silage and even just grass bails

you should consider using a forage harvester and turn the corn into silage, they're extremely profitable and you can use silage to feed animals if you get into cattle as well

The kubota M7 series is actually a pretty good general utility tractor, like a chore tractor for spraying and carting seeds and fertilizer around, grass work. I found the kubota equipment pack about the time I got the DLC, it’s actually pretty handy because you can color all the attachments for about any brand of tractor. Not a lot of streamers seem to use the kubota tractors for some reason. I’m biased though having a barn with some orange in it IRL.

Hi Pickle I thought it would be best to get lots of chickens and get the mayonnaise mod

You are making me download this game... 😅

Love the fields you bought, that’s my favorite place to start. I think you should stay away from land flipping, it’s just not a realistic practice. I like 1 day months at 5x speed but honestly don’t think it matters for you to variable the speed. I’d really love for you to attempt to make your farm aesthetic. When placing your home and generators and pens and what not, just be conscious of aesthetic. The chicken coop was awkwardly crammed in last time, I think it’d be great to have an episode every once and a while where you work on aesthetics, like maybe taking out some trees by the pond and building your house there, maybe putting in a driveway, etc. Love that the series is back, here’s to a fresh start. Cheers.🍻

I'm trying the same challenge, I went with the same field and the one under it. Started with 10 greenhouses next to the guys house, leased a water tank to fill them. Planted stone pine on marginal land for chipping. Bought fields to the left and above aggressively when my harvest coincided. Saved for the gas plant, had a massive corn silage harvest ready to go. Need about 2.4 million to fill it for a year. 4 of the 45 cattle sheds on the little field above you for manure and silage for gas. And need about 240k beets a year to keep that full+extra can be chopped and sold for good £££. All in the gas plant earns 3 million a year fully stocked. Seasons on crops of choice oats into canola, corn for forage, sugar beets for chopping and grass for hay. Started out with the first John Deere in the large category and the cheapest one that can have a front loader.

I think a good rule to add for your loan system would be, only take a loan out for a specific purpose. Say you need a harvester, take the loan out for that harvester, and that harvester only. Then only take a new loan out after the previous loan is at least 50% paid off. It is more bookkeeping on your end, but I think it’ll be a more realistic system and it seems a bit more fair than just taking a huge loan out for a bunch of stuff and barely repay it until the end of the series. Or maybe even a daily repayment schedule so at the end of each day you have to repay at least a certain amount if you can.

Awesome video pickle !!

Make sure you get the right beet harvester! The ones in beet technology are for sugar beet and the one in vegetable technology are for red beet, parsnips, and carrots

Hi! FYI 11:10 , abbreviation HA is not Hecta-acre, it's hectare. The hectare (/ˈhɛktɛər, -tɑːr/; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides, that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2). Thank you for your content ❤

Jake, the beat technology that you looked at is for sugar beet, not red beet. Red beet falls under vegetable technology. Edit: Additionally, I know the PF sprayer with See and Spray is super pricey, it does the half side shut off automatically for you, even when running fertilizer on contracts. So it will eventually end up saving you money in wasted product, but I haven’t done the math on exactly how much savings it provides and how long it takes to pay it back.

add the extended oil factory mod get into oil production, and transport contracts mod and the DEF mod 6x and 2 days a mo

nice vid man, keep them coming.

Glad you started again

The metric HA is hectare (pronounced Heck-t-air) in English

If you turn off Automatic application and reduce the application to minimum, your produce will go further in the sprayer. Just saying. You need to turn on the automatic application when doing your own.

Hectares is what HA stands for. its roughly 2.5 acres per hectare. hectares is metric, while acres is an imperial measurement

Any vegetable harvester with crates makes like $50 on the crates when you sell the crop….so it’s hard to lose money on root crops between the volume and the free containers. The carrots/beets/parsnips are like sugar beet and potatoes in being the highest profit crops but the trade off is time.

Your Red Beet needs to be harvested with Vegetable Technology (or a modded sugar beet harvester that can also do carrot/red beet/parsnip).

Longer seasons will be important when you're working a few dozen fields.

If you’re allowing a couple mods in this series there is a claas jaguar chopper available that can harvest corn wheat barley grass soybeans oats sorghum and it only cost 60k or there is a pull behind John Deere grass harvester for 28k so silage is easy and profitable if you allow a couple mods

In my humble opinion regarding rules: 1. No solar panel strat allowed, solar panels are allowed just not to the point where everyday you get enough money to buy another one (hopefully this makes sense). 2. Regarding time speed, I don't see an issue on you fast forwarding depending on what you want to do. Playing in a fixed speed lets say 5x can be painfully slow some times. Those are my to rules lol, I don't have more ideas. But as a viewer i don't really care that much tbh. imo just play the game where it feels fun to do it and not a painful task. I will watch regardless lol. edit: for example, mods like super strength just to pick up heavy things without having to use a forklift or something, i wouldn't count that as cheating, it just a quality of life improvement but that's just me cause i get how some people can see that as cheating.

I hate the extremely unrealistic mods, like the ones that make the combine go 60mp/h or something like it; the rest is fair game.

Love the vids

You should 100% be making all the decisions also I think a lil auto load trailer isn’t cheesy:)!

When you were resizing the spray pattern the blue marks on the info panel upper left were resizing to let you know. The sprayer shuts off from the ends toward the center closer to the tractor.

20:44 is there a airvent blowing on the cupholder for no particular reason NOICE

My suggestion would add mod for bank management (improve loan system) and dynamic land value.

Great idea to start over. I'm on year 15 all equipment is modded, I owe half the map, but I'm only on 60mil.

Been waiting for this!

The hector acres are 2.14 something something acres

Loving it

How much will the Man from Madison County spend on his quest to make 1 Billion?

does that map window come with precision farming DLC

I think you schedule a bigger map to give you more variety

Also utilise lease to buy! Last time spent so much in buying equipment 😊

What mod do you use that expands the Used Vehicle section???

I feel like contracts aren’t really an efficient way to make money, you could spend that time doing work on your own crops where you will actually make decent money.

a good play rule ... now that you have your starter vehicles ... no more purchases until you get back over 1m .... your home animal concern are buyable but again once bought.... no more buying until you exceed 1m ... that way you have a decent purchase buffer ... and working buffer ... an are forced to be stingy with your cash and a go getter for outside work ... no LEASING is NOT buying ... lease to own IS buying

So you put a front tank on the tractor to carry more product. Something that only does one function. Why not put a front end loader on and you can carry product to the field and you are going to need a front end loader for bales and moving wool.

Let's go

You should really give a chance for eggs they made me millionaire no cap just give them time and when you buy a stocker will be easy way for transportation

That McCormick is a nice tractor. I got the same one

to be fair you couldve just bought land and then put down 1.3million worth of solar panels and then let them generate enough money to get windmills and then wait like a couple months......electricity farming

Hi

How often are the videos coming out for this new season ? 🎉

whats the map one left corner i need that too is it a mod if yes you got link for it ?

Should’ve looked at the used market lol

BRO turn the wool into fabric and fabric into clothes and you will make millions easily

Cotton and wool then buy the spinnery and build a tailor shop

Can you pleaseee bring back the buying every tractor in farm sim

1.) I think you should do one day a month. Who really uses more than one. 2.) speed should be variable to allow you to produce factory (I.e. places you own for canola, bakery, spinners) that way you see a return on investment. That way between crops you are still collecting money. 3.) I think if you buy a field it has to be empty. That way you’re not wasting crops that is lost money. Because otherwise you should have to rent stuff to harvest the field if it is full

I'm gonna hv to watch from s1e1 lol

Like the series, but Instead of a billion In the bank how about ending the season with a certain amount of money, land and animal size each year

Red beet equipment is under vegetable category not beet technology

Hard economy 3 days 5x speed Fast dirt Fast fuel Those are the settings I use

How many votes did you get

Yes a restart

You’re making peanuts on these contracts after you pay for the equipment and fertilizer. Meanwhile you spent $900k on stuff that’s not set up to generates income yet, and you had $600k that could’ve gotten you started on sheep which would start generating income very soon.

As someone who lives and farms in Madison county iowa, I knew you were from iowa but that comment about the covered bridges caught my ear. Is that area where you’re from as well pickle?

you should of bought the front loder and caried the fertilieser

3:06 real time and 5 days

Can you make a list of your mods?

What about the part about buying all the land?