Farming Simulator 25 Crop Guide: Calendar, Yields, Prices and Uses

Every crop in Farming Simulator 25 follows the same loop: sow it inside its window, keep the field fed, harvest it while it’s ready, then sell or process it. These tables give you the numbers for each step on the three base maps. For a single crop and a field you actually own, the crop planner does the math for you.

All amounts are per hectare; divide by 2.47 for an acre. Prices are per 1,000 liters on Normal difficulty; Easy pays 167% of that and Hard pays 56%. The numbers come from game version 1.25.

Sowing and Harvest Calendar

Sow in the months listed and the crop is ready in the harvest months. A crop sown late in its window ripens later, so it gets fewer harvest months before it withers. Grass and poplar stay ready once they’ve grown, and grass regrows after every cut.

Seed and Yield per Hectare

The base yield is what an untended field gives you. Every bonus in the next section stacks on top, and a field with all of them gives you 200% of the base. Straw and chaff come on top of the main harvest: leave the combine’s straw chopper off to drop a swath you can bale, or chop the whole crop with a forage harvester for chaff.

Yield Bonuses

Each bonus adds a share of the base yield, so a crop that takes every bonus gives you up to twice the base on PC and console. Fertilizer is the big one. You need fertilizer level 2 for the full 45%, and a pass adds a level only where the ground isn’t already marked with that same kind of fertilizer, so a second pass of mineral fertilizer right after the first adds nothing. Spread manure or slurry first and mineral fertilizer second. A slurry tanker or manure spreader with a double-rate mode adds both levels in one pass at half speed.

Some crops skip a bonus. These get nothing from plowing: Grass, Poplar, Sugarcane. These get nothing from rolling: Carrots, Green Beans, Long Grain Rice, Parsnips, Peas, Potatoes, Red Beet, Rice, Spinach, Sugarcane. These never grow weeds, so they get the weed-free bonus without any work: Grass, Long Grain Rice, Poplar, Rice.

Fertilizer, Lime and Herbicide Rates

Sprayers and spreaders use a fixed amount per second at their working speed, so drive at the tool’s speed limit to spread the rates below. Driving slower puts down more product on the same ground.

Crop Prices by Month

Prices follow the same yearly curve every year, so you can plan around it. Store the harvest in a silo and sell in the best month: the widest swing is soybeans, which fetch 60% less in February than in July. A great demand at a sell point pays 10% to 40% more for 6 to 24 hours, so check the prices screen before you haul a full silo somewhere.

Which Crops Pay Best

Carrots give you the best return on a small budget. A fully tended hectare earns about 39,100 a year on Normal, 3.8 times what wheat earns, and the cheapest machines that harvest them cost 84,500. The cheapest combine and grain header cost 134,500.

Grapes, olives and sugarcane earn the most per hectare, around 44,000 a year, but they cost the most to start. Each needs its own harvester, and a hectare of rows costs about 83,000 for grapes and 117,000 for olives to plant. You pay for the rows once, and sugarcane regrows after every harvest, so after the first year you buy no seed for any of them.

Combine crops earn the least per hectare, but one combine with a grain header brings in barley, canola, long grain rice, oat, sorghum, soybeans and wheat. That makes them the cheap way to put a lot of land to work while you save for a specialist harvester. Barley, oat and wheat also leave straw you can bale and sell, which isn’t counted here.

The table assumes a fully tended field with every yield bonus the crop takes, one harvest a year, and selling in the crop’s best month on Normal. Inputs are one harvest’s seed, a pass of solid fertilizer from the shop, a pass of slurry from a Liquid Manure station, lime and, where weeds grow, herbicide. The soil map only asks for lime every few harvests, so your real costs come out a little lower. Fuel, wages and the machines aren’t included; the last column is the cheapest set of machines that harvests the crop. Grass and poplar take several machines to bring in, so they’re left out.

A factory can earn you more from the same harvest. The production chains guide ranks every factory and greenhouse by how fast it pays for itself.

Machines Each Crop Needs

These are the shop categories that carry a machine for each job. A header does nothing on its own: it fits on a combine or other base machine whose tank takes that crop, and the table names where to find one. Potatoes, sugar beet and sugarcane need their haulm or leaves removed before harvest; most of their harvesters do it themselves, and the shop also sells separate toppers.

What Each Crop Is Used For

Factories that buy a crop pay for it like a sell point until you buy the factory; after that, deliveries go into its storage and it makes products you sell instead. Animals eat crops from their feeding troughs.

Greenhouse Crops

Greenhouses grow vegetables, fruit and mushrooms from water alone. Keep the water topped up, pick a crop and the greenhouse produces around the clock. The output below is for one in-game month with that crop as the only one running; switch on a second crop and the two share the greenhouse’s capacity.

Grapes, Olives and Poplar

Grapes and olives grow on vine and tree rows you place in build mode, so you never sow them. They get the stubble and rolling bonuses for free. New rows start fully limed, but every harvest uses some of that lime up, so spread lime between the rows again with a vineyard spreader to keep the lime bonus. Run a vineyard cultivator or plow between the rows for the plowing bonus (it clears the weeds too), keep them fertilized, then harvest with a grape or olive harvester in the months above. Poplar is a field crop planted with a tree planter from pallets of poplar. It takes 16 months to grow, then stays ready until you chop it into wood chips with a forage harvester or bale it with a bio baler.

Oilseed Radish

Oilseed radish is a catch crop you never harvest. Sow it after a harvest, wait until the plants show, then work it into the soil with a cultivator. It fertilizes the field for the next crop.