In Farming Simulator 25, it’s all about running your farm and ensuring that you are making money with all of your efforts. However, at times, you may feel like you’re losing money or not making it back fast enough. This can be quite frustrating especially if you’re doing things as the game intends.
If you’re in such a situation, we’ve got you covered! In this guide, we’ll be showing the top 5 ways to make money fast in the game. Let’s dive in and see how you can accumulate that wealth!
Top 5 Ways to Make Money Fast
All the methods for making money that we’ll be discussing here can be applied to all platforms, whether Xbox, Playstation or PC. You’ll also be able to use the money to pay off debts or buy other things.
If you’re looking to play the game with your friends on other platforms, that’s certainly possible. Our complete guide to multiplayer has you covered!
Method #1 – Sell Unnecessary Equipment & Buildings
This method will only work if you start with a farm that has some free equipment and buildings already available. It works best for the Hutan Pantai map, but can work for the others as well.
Starting off, go into the Store menu and select the option right at the end. Here, select the Vehicles tab to see all the vehicles that you have available. You should have some already on your starting farm.
We recommend going through each of them and seeing which ones are necessary. For example, you will need a trailer and seeder, so do not sell them off. However, if you have multiple tractors, then you can absolutely sell one as you’ll only be driving one.
We recommend keeping the tractor with the most horsepower. You can also sell off a trailer header as you’ll not need at the start. In this way, you can make about $20k almost instantly.
Next, we recommend going into the build menu and seeing all the buildings you have. You can get rid of a lot of buildings as most of them tend to be decorative or do not offer much value.
Some buildings you can consider selling off are:
- Decorative farm barns
- Sheds
- Old Wind Wheel with Water Tank
- Beehives
- Decorative Grain Bins
- Cow Pasture.
Some of these buildings are unnecessary as keeping your equipment outside will not mean that they’ll get dirty. Buildings like the beehives can help you make money by selling honey, but the profit is not worth it.
Of course, make sure that you do not sell off all the buildings. For example, you can make a lot of money selling the Silo but it is an actually useful building.
Some buildings you can’t sell off, like the Farmhouse, so keep that in mind as well.
Method #2 – Taking A Loan
Taking a loan might sound counterintuitive as you will need to pay back the money with interest in Farming Simulator 25. But the interest rates are low, and the potential gains you can make with the money are more than worth it.
To take a loan, go into the Finances menu by hitting the graph icon in the main menu. Here, you will be able to take a loan in increments of $5,000.
Of course, the loan will not be an unlimited supply as it is based on how much you have in assets. But you could potentially borrow $500k as the start of a game.
The interest rate is really low as you’ll only have to pay around $333 per $100,000 that you have loaned out. You can then invest this money and slowly back it back in increments of $5,000. You’ll only have to make the interest based payments back.
Method #3 – Do Contract Work
A great way to make money on the side is by doing contract work in Farming Simulator 25. Not all the contracts are worth doing, and there are different types that you can do.
Let’s go through the main ones and see whether they are worth doing or not, including tips for each one:
- Bale Wrapping
- These can be done in less than 10 minutes
- You can also lease the equipment at a very low less and still make great money
- Cultivating
- Most of these contracts are worth doing
- We recommend leasing from the contract with the best cultivator
- After that, you can use that cultivator in the other cultivator contracts
- Make sure you finish the other contracts before returning the cultivator
- Deadwood
- These contracts are alright if you can find the right trees
- Never lease the equipment for these contracts
- Fertilizing
- These contracts are also easy and you can take your own equipment or lease from them
- Harvesting
- Typically, most of these contracts are not worth it because they are time consuming
- Only the highest paying ones (around $9k) might be worth the effort.
Keep in mind that you can have 3 contracts active at a time. You can also hire workers for your farms to still run things while you go to the side and do contracts.
Method #4 – Do Silage Baling
This method is the one that requires the most money up front initially. You will need around $200k-300k depending on the equipment that you already have on your farm.
You can even take a loan to kickstart this method, and it’s worth it as you’ll be able to make your money back.
It may seem like a lot of money but the reason for it is because you’ll basically need to get into a whole new crop. Normally when you get into a new crop, it tends to cost much more. So, here, you’ll basically be growing grass and then baling them into silage bales.
The good news is that you can get quite a good return on them. Normally, with most crops, you only harvest once per year. But with silage baling, you get to harvest three times per year so you get a really good return.
At the start, you’ll already have a planter to get this process started. Here are the additional steps and equipment you’ll need for the silage baling setup:
- Mower
- Recommended: GMD 8730-FF or GMD 3123
- Windrower
- Recommended: Swadro TS 970 or Z2-840 H
- Roundbalers
- Recommended: RB 456 HD Pro or G-1 F125
- There is a baler that also does the wrapping but it’s not worth it
- Wrappers
- Recommended: G5020.
After you’ve planted the grass once, you can also sell off your seeder as grass will grow automatically after mowing. So, with this setup you can make silage bales and sell them off for a good profit return.
Method #5 – Try Field Flipping
The final method that we’ll be looking at here is field flipping in Farming Simulator 25. With field flipping, you’ll need to look at the map and go through the fields up for purchase. Make sure to apply the Growth filter.
Doing so will show you what stages the different fields are at in terms of growth. Your goal will be to buy fields that are in the Ready to Harvest stage, i.e. the color yellow. However, you should also check which crop is growing on the field.
This is because you should only buy a ready to harvest field that you can actually harvest. If you do not have the equipment to harvest the actual crop, then you’ll need to purchase it which means you won’t be able to turn a profit.
For example, if you have equipment for harvest Sorghum then consider purchasing fields that can be harvested by that same equipment. You can also consider fields in the growing stage, and simply wait until the crops can be harvested.
After you purchase the field, harvest all the crops and sell them. After you sell the crops, simply click on the field and sell it. You’ll be able to get the money you spent on the field back. Plus, you’ll have made around $30-40k in profit.
You can then repeat this cycle with other fields and easily make a lot of money. This method might feel a little cheaty, but we leave that up to you to decide!
That’s everything you need to know for the top 5 ways to make money fast in Farming Simulator 25. We recommend trying all these methods if you can as none of these are really too difficult. Plenty of these can also be done with your starting field.
Another way in which you can make some money is by using greenhouses. Our greenhouse guide can help you set one up!
