Guide to Purchasing, Breeding, Milk & Beef!

Farming cows is a little complicated in Farming Simulator 22. Here's how to produce beef and maximise your profits!

But if livestock is more your thing, how do you get started? How do we farm cows?

Purchasing barns

Head into your store and the construction menu. We'll need somewhere for our cows to be! Look under the Animals tab and you can see that there's a choice of four. Your basic enclosed cattle pasture can hold 15 cows. Meanwhile, a small cow barn will hold 45 and a large barn 80. You can further go for the large cow barn with the feeding robot.

One other advantage of the barns is that they have their own water supply! With the basic pasture, you'll need to bring water regularly. On the other hand, your pasture doesn't require straw for the cows for bedding. Another trade-off is that pasture doesn't produce slurry or manure. If you are using barns, you'll want to purchase or lease the Anderson Pro-chop 150 for providing that straw. You'll also want to choose the manure heap from the silo extensions to capture that useful manure.

Buying your initial cattle

There are essentially two ways to purchase your animals. If you own a Wilson Silverstar animal transport then you can save yourself the transport costs associated with getting the cattle to your farm. Alternatively, you can go to your barn or pasture and to the animal paw symbol and pay the slightly higher cost to have them transported automatically.

You can choose between different ages. At eighteen months, these are mature animals and so they can produce young every ten months at that point. Therefore if you're looking to grow your herd quickly, you'll want to buy the mature animals. Brown-Swiss and Holstein are your better dairy cows, while Angus and Limousin are more specialised for beef.