The Dairy is one of the many Production Chains you can set up in Farming Simulator 25 and it’s a complete necessity for making products out of any type of milk.
A Dairy is a must if you have a buffalo, goat, or cow livestock farm already. You can use it to process milk so that it’s fit to sell and make other dairy products such as butter and whatnot. It’s fairly easy to run too, and decently profitable!
In this guide, we’ll tell you everything you need to keep track of when setting up and running a Dairy Production Chain.
Complete Dairy Guide
Setting Up Your Dairy
The first thing you want to do to start your complete Dairy production business in Farming Simulator 25 is to get a Dairy building. If you’re playing on a map that has purchasable Dairy buildings, you can just buy one. Just select it from the “Available” category in the Production Chains part of the menu to visit it, then use the floating Wrench icon near it to purchase it.
Alternatively, you can place down your own Dairy building in Build Mode. You can find and purchase the Dairy production chains under the Factories category.
Note that there are 3 different Dairy buildings available on the base game. A large one that costs $210.000, a medium one that also costs $210.000, and a small one that costs $36.000. The large and medium factories have the same production output, so we recommend picking one of them. The small one has a much lower output, which is why it’s so much cheaper.
Input Materials
The 4 Input Materials for the Dairy are as follows:
- Milk – Brought in tank trucks and obtained from cows. Check out our guide about cows for everything you need to know about them.
- Buffalo Milk – Brought in tank trucks and obtained from buffalo.
- Goat Milk – Brought in pallets, obtained from goats.
- Sugar – Brought in pallets, obtained as a product from the Sugar Mill.
Generally speaking, cow milk is the easiest to obtain but buffalo milk is used for some of the most profitable products. Also, note that you will need to have the appropriate transportation vehicles to bring the materials to your Dairy factory.
You can drop off Input Materials at the designated areas around the Dairy marked with yellow and black stripes, like the one above.
With that laid down, it’s time to look at what you can actually produce from these materials.
Output Products and Profits
After you’ve set up your Dairy, you can go to its Management menu to look at the products you can make. You can get to the Management menu by interacting with the wrench icon outside the building or finding it under your Owned Production Chains in the pause menu.
Then, you can highlight each one of these Products and change their Output Mode if you wish by pressing the prompt shown at the bottom of the screen. You can set them to one of these 3 modes:
- Storing – Keep the product at your Dairy until the factory fills up. This will allow you to manually pick up the Products as pallets around your Dairy, which you can then sell to different stations for full profits.
- Selling – Automatically sells Products every hour until you empty your storage. You’ll be charged a fee of about 20% per sale. Requires less work than storing and manually selling, however!
- Distributing – Allows you to set up a Product to be automatically moved to another Production Chain. This doesn’t cost you anything and it’s good if you need one of these Dairy Products at another facility.
Do note that changing the Output Mode for any of the 3 types of Butter will change it for all of them. That’s because they all result in the same Product, they just use different Input Materials.
That aside, here’s a quick table of every one of the Products as well as their average costs and profits:
So, there you have it, that’s our complete guide on how to set up and run your own Dairy in Farming Simulator 25! Do you also want to set up a Rope Factory? Check out our Rope Factory guide too!
