You need a harvester with a grain header to harvest your crops.

Otherwise, the yield will be reduced, and you won’t get as much money out of it

You need a weeder to get rid of the weeds that will soon pop up.

A fertilizer spreader is found in the fertilizing technology category. You find both lime and fertilizer in the ‘objects’ section of the shop. For beginners, artificial fertilizers are the best choice. Without these, the income from your harvested crops will be lowered.

You need a fertilizer spreader, fertilizer and lime.

You also need to buy a Bigbag pallet of seeds from the ‘objects’ section. In the ‘seeders’ category of the tools-tab in the shop, you find seeders to sow grains.

You need a cultivator to prepare the field for your crops.You need a tractor, of course, to attach the following tools and operate them.Most of them you’ll need later for other crops, too. All the tools and machinery needed are the essentials you should invest in right at the beginning anyway. Let’s take a look at everything you need to sow and harvest grains. Wheat, barley and sorghum can be fed to chicken.Wheat, barley, sorghum, canola and soybeans can be fed to pigs.Harvesting wheat, barley and oat also produces straw for your animals.With a harvester and grain header, you can harvest all types of grains.If you play with seasonal cycles, you start in August and can only seed canola.Grains are the easiest crops to start with.(Video coming soon!) What is special about grains?

We’ll show you how to sow, harvest and sell grains. The process is always the same with grains, hence why we group them together, including soy beans. In simple terms, grains are plants that grow from a single seed and produce even more seeds we want to harvest.

Welcome to your next 'Crops 101' lesson of the Farming Simulator Academy! Today, we’re focusing on grains.

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