BEST Yielding Crop for Silage | Farming Simulator 22 | Tutorial Series

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Corn is always king for silage crops…..grass gives more yeild per year but is much more labor intensive due to multiple harvests

If you mow the grass a month late, you earn more yield, but I don't know if this is profitable if we consider how many harvests per year.

With seasons turned on Grass is definitely king then as you get three harvests a year, but only one with Corn

Is that maximum yield grass? Looks like it, 3 days is what it takes and the grass in the video seems to be fully grown. Just making sure. Grass definitely seems the better choice if playing seasons.

Just some critique…

One, no animal other than cows eat silage. So if you’re not doing cows all you can use it for is to sell.

Two, you can get four harvests a year from grass, without replanting, it beats corn hands down. Plus, it doesn’t need the big expensive equipment to cut. Just a mower and a pickup wagon, which you can put additive in and get 5% more from.

While you can also use the additive in the forage harvester, it’s still not going to beat grass for silage.

Three, you don’t have to wait until the crops are fully grown to cut it into chaff. Corn, for example, can be cut at the four month mark without losing yield.

You won’t be able to get a second crop in a year, if using seasons, but maybe you need the get the silage in quicker…

Next, you don’t need to fertilize grass, just use a grass roller. Under grasscare. It gives a fertilizer state for free. No need to buy fertilizer.

Lastly, silage only take one month to ferment when in a bunker. Watch the clock, it goes up about 4.5 % per hour. So you need twenty hours roughly for it to ferment. This is way faster than bales, just for the comparison.

If you're playing with seasons, grass is king – you only get 1 harvest from each crop per year, except grass, where you can get 3 cuts. With grass you can mow, collect and use a grass roller (for +50% fertilization), and get full yield every time. Plus grass is a plant once only crop, so you don't have to factor seed purchase into the mix every year.

Another thing I noticed, which I've not tested, the forage headers are now all crop headers – unlike FS19 where there was the corn header, and the "everything else" header – I'm assuming there isn't a yield difference between the two header types for a given crop.

Try this strategy (if you play with seasons): after corn harvest plant grass – in April you can make silage using bale wrapper. This will allow you to use the field all year with two different crops (grass + the one you want).

I found out today from my ocd wanting a perfect looking bunker that driving over the chaff after 100% compaction results in losses, lost quite a bit

Good video. Results answers a lot of questions. I haven't work any silage in FS 22. In FS19 I used grass for the reasons you mentioned. Convenience in multiple uses. Also remember cutting corn early on the third growth stage. This would shorten the cycle and make corn more valuable. Maybe something for another test.

Good video Mike, do you get the same yield from the crops if you harvest them on the last growth stage instead of ready to harvest (dry)?

I’d pick corn to win lol

YouTuber 10th Generation Dairyman has video of the forage harvester shooting the silage straight into the silage bunker. That would be a nice mod!

Great video. At the moment grass is a great option, if you buy the grass roller you can fertilize for free after that.

I love that the bunkers now click together! Great info. Thanks Mike