COWS TEST - Farming Simulator 22

STOP wasting time with TMR (Total Mixed Ration). Ever wondered when you should sell your cows? How much they eat? How much they cost? If they are even worth doing?

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[kadachiman]

The three rules that I got from this video -
1. sell all cows at 27 months (after birth of calf)
2. Feed Beef cattle Hay for most profit
3. Feed Diary cattle TMR for most profit

Thanks, FC, for a well-presented video.

[yarriddevogelaere]

Cows are immensely profitable in the right combinations. Two decently sized fields. One for grass, which you can mow 3x a year when seasons are turned on to produce hay and silage and one for a straw yielding grain (preferably barley because of the high yield per acre). Fed the cows tmr and either sell the milk or buy a dairy production to turn it into cheese and/or butter. Get a chicken barn with just enough chickens so the yield of barley feeds them for a year and sell the eggs and buy or build a BGA for the manure and slurry. They fit together so well.

[MrSealyp]

are you sure you're a cop and not an accountant? Thanks for the information... Always learning. Stay safe buddy and stop resisting!

[neilharbott]

I did this testing way back when, nice to see it's all the same - one way to game things, is to have a general production hay barn, and a ready for sale TMR barn - move the cows you plan to sell to the TMR barn the day before you sell them (the increase is immediate) and gain the value as if you'd fed them TMR for life. Incidentally you could run a grass barn and put the kiddies in there, until they get to milk production stage (or breeding stage!!).

[codywilhelm]

This is super helpful!!! I absolutely love numbers and seeing it broken down like this is truly beautiful for me. Thank you so much. I just started playing about 2 weeks ago and your videos have made my life so much easier. Keep up the great work!

[vitalmind]

Appreciate all the work to figure this out. I enjoy making the TMR on dairy farms mostly for rp purposes. Also I don’t know if this was a real Farmer Cop video, none of those tractors crashed 😊 keep up the good work and stay safe with the job sir.

[joshtako]

@FarmerCop first off, much respect for the time and effort on a video and calculations like this. i've dabbled with similar things before and would like to discuss things i noticed that i disagreed with. I'd be more than happy to discuss numbers for cows or any other animal in depth as well if desired.

your tmr formula calculation has a minor error in it, largely affecting your profit results, your calculation shows silage*percent + hay*percent + straw+percent, resulting in 229 per 1000L, correcting the straw portion to Straw*percent should equal 173 per 1000L which means you're about $350 high on total feed for dairy cows, and $400 high on beef cows. in my experience as well, you can min/max your tmr mix to 50% hay, 20% silage, and 30% straw (tested on console, all mods off) which would be about $134 per 1000L resulting in almost $600 cheaper feed on dairy cows, and $800 cheaper on beef cows

@1:20 you mention cows not needing straw. in info i've found from other people, and tested myself, not giving dairy cows straw, results in a multiplier of .9 on milk productions, so for hay fed 108 w/o straw vs 120 w/straw. or tmr fed 135 w/o straw vs 150 w/ straw. also, from what i've seen cows produce the same amount of slurry w/ vs w/o straw, but obviously only produce manure w/ straw. At adulthood a dairy cow consumed 95L of straw in return for 15L of milk and 200L of manure per month

also, your discord link in your profile shows as an invalid invite, if yours is still up and running, i'd love being able to be part of a community where things like this can be discussed in depth

[AaronTyska]

Good to know. I've been thinking about adding cows to my farm and was getting ready to have all the necessary stuff to mix up TMR to give to them, but now I can just skip that step and just give them hay!

[Ishowequine]

I found your channel a few years ago from your tests! You’re always so thorough! Thank you! So interesting and entertaining

[Dustbunney]

Nov. 3, 2023 Thank you for taking the time to make this video and perform all these tests. Greatly appreciated. Take care sir and Stay safe.

[SebastianLong]

I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos as since i got FS22 ive been playing with seasons on and on hard mode/start from scratch only and recently got my cows finally. So far ive only played on silverrun forest (first map i played on) and elmscreek. I have about 5 times the hours on elmscreek than i do on silverrun because i been wanting to get into the animals portion and dont have the desire to try to create fields and place building for animals on silverrun.

[gercobosch]

As someone who does this as a job, I enjoyed this very much, cause usually people assume more means better. Myself included (yes I also get caught in said net).

[peadarbradaigh]

I’m just about to expand into cows for the first time ever. So much appreciate your timely info!!

[IanEdmonds]

Thanks for putting that out. Really helpful comparison and not a result I was expecting to see

[mdtv]

Sweet. TY for all the hard work you have done. It is very appreciated.

[RamboHackerGaming]

Awesome job!! That is the reason I almost always feed my cows hay only.
I have an idea for a follow-up or part 2 on cows. I know on base game, the best time to sell to get the max profit (before the prices starts dropping) and get the max calves is 36 months, but I have yet to learn what it is with the enhanced animal mod. So, it would be a really interesting video that I don't think anyone has done yet, is using the enhanced animal mod and accounting for the best time to sell them but account for when calves are born and what is the most profitable way to feed them.

[drifterdragon]

Wow!!! That’s a ton of info. Thanks for taking the time to share.

[redbelliedgaming]

I always appreciate your test videos like this. Thanks for sharing these tips 🙌

[wmwho]

Cool! Thanks for doing this testing. I have always been curious about the numbers with the cows.

[cristianoforever]

nice video, i always find it easier to make sillage so i usually go with 55% sillage 15% straw and 30% hay.