The Essential Guide to Poplar in Farming Simulator 25

[@MrBertstare]

When planting all you need to do is adjust the working width in the AI menu to get a tighter planting. If a modder came up with a stationary woodshop baler I think it would be a huge hit! I modded the base game stationary to accept wood chips . Field 4 on riverbend produces about $200k in wood chips, great income for minimal work

[@ScientistMan96]

That's what I was going to say as well. Looking at the AI settings screen, the working width defaults to 2.4m, as that's the size of the planting implement. Problem is, it only actually plants a tiny .5m or so path. It doesn't plant the full 2.4m width, which causes the large gaps between rows. So if you just set the AI or steering assist to be .5-1m or something (I haven't messed with it myself yet), should fix the issue.

[@CharlieFarmer321]

Oh My! I never realized the profit potential! Definitely going to plant Poplar... And Spinach. Thanks for the Videos.

[@primeflux1]

I am thinking about plant a grass field then plant rows of Poplars into the grassfield. If I use a spacing of between 3.2 to 4m I should be able to fit in a mover and silage-baler inbetween the popular rows. Which should allows more of the field to be used. As you can drive on grass it makes harvest the populare easier and you should get 100% use of the fertilization you put down. Also you get the benefit of dual use of much of the equipment, bale handling or the forage harvester. The popular is not getting to be plant as tight as possible but should be compensated but the profit of grass silage or other crop in those 3m strips.

[@alexmaddocks7179]

Clever, I think I'll try this too

[@King.B-b8n]

You know I never realised that popular head such a high return I have never even thought about using popular before until now when I watched your video that is an amazing return I am surprised beyond belief honestly

[@RodneySizemore-uf4yu]

Timestamp 32:00 I think the biggest issue with poplar is the time between harvests to get that money, when you consider oats for example they can be harvested and replanted every 4 months in game, plus the straw you could net more profit in same timeframe as poplar or very close to it, I imagine, and if doing sugar beets, well those yield so damn much per hectare, that I still believe are probably best profit to time spent for any crop in game, I've found rice is also very lucrative, not the long grain rice, the regular rice where you have to flood the field 1st, I'm currently using the 2 small fields just behind the shop for my rice fields, and harvesting them both and selling directly even at an average price brought me 70 to 80k profits, also very quick to replant on those smaller fields, I use 2 planter and 2 harvesters, and reloading the planters is a breeze since the shop is right there, I always purchase 6 pallets of rice saplings, and I have a shed around the corner to store everything in as well, so any leftovers also get stored in there, next time I harvest I buy 6 more pallets of saplings, rinse and repeat, another great crop for time spent and time of return profit, is spinach, and green beans, most of those vegfie crops are actually very lucrative, just need bigger fields to justify them personally, I tend to avoid peas currently because the harvester doesn't hold much, but the beans and spinach harvesters hold quite a bit, but I'm always finding myself hiring more than one worker running multiple harvesters to get the harvesting done faster for all crops other than the originals, great video as always brother and thanks for everything you do for the community, here's hoping Giants starts implementing more fixes to every aspect of this game, their last update did pretty well, but still not enough, and here's to many older tractors becoming available soon in game without any unnecessary money walls blocking us from getting the oldies but goodies that were once base game from other titles in the series, Remember Giants has all the info and statistics they need to know exactly what is popular and good about their games from previous years, there is no good excuse for them to not bring back many of these fan favorites, and soon, also the wood side of everything needs some major improvements still, it's all n all a beautiful game I love it and am only criticizing out of my absolutely adoration and love for the series, I'm a 40yo widowed father of 2 beautiful young daughers so catch my drift when I say my disappointment so far is much like that of any father's disappointment towards their kids when they do something disappointing lol, that's all I really have to say about that, great game beautifully rendered and the level of thought and effort put into it really shows visually and with npc's as well, needs many more improvements though...Like silage factories lol or silos lol miss those for straw...

[@RodneySizemore-uf4yu]

I'm doing my 1st poplar harvest for fs25, I'm gonna hire 2 or 3 workers next I make and plant a poplar field, it's the only way to truly speed up anything in the game currently, have 1 worker start headland on 1 side of field, have second worker start the up n downs, and a 3rd worker either doing headlands opposite of 1st or staggered behind 1st worker, I prefer the staggered and letting the AI work themselves out on next passes, usually works well...

[@freshisntsosalty8764]

I planted field 24 i believe it is used a worker to plant it and pull in 1.1 million a harvest. I also just use 2 tractors with the header attachment

[@DeeDee.Ranged]

Have done poplar on FS22 and going to do it again on FS25 as stated it is a nice income crop.

[@bigtrilobyte6676]

Great video and information 👍 Have not done Poplar on FS25, but I think it will be a nice replacement crop for the wilted sunflower maze. Thanks again 🚜

[@FarmerKlein]

The maze is the biggest disappointment for me after the first few months because its always dead.

[@bigtrilobyte6676]

@FarmerKlein they could have set the sunflowers to the best looking growth stage for visual effect. Took me 2 hours to convert the field to poplar but it will stay green for 15 months and produce a nice profit. 😃😃

[@beauneo]

I’ll be honest. Plant it dense by hand and skip the baler. I do corn silage non stop on my dairy farm and just had to learn to work with the AI in the chopper. I filled plot 3 on the starting farm of Riverbend Springs. It’s a massive cash crop for me. Took about 3-4 real life hours to plant. I lucked out in my save because I was already doing dairy so had the chopper. Don’t do any arable on this farm so I have nothing but grass around it. Only hint I also have is after you plant you can destroy crop the following month. I use a crop row wheeled tractor with a sprayer to fertilize after you harvest. Takes two months to get it back to fully fertilized.

[@Chris_Restall]

Thank you for your Time making all these Videos… Very informative 🤙🍁🚜

[@bluebutterfly6394]

22:00 can recommend Hawe SUW 5000 if you use a forage havester

[@stonedmountainunicorn9532]

"Hawe Suh, Chip on that thang"

[@FrontLineNerd]

I’m not turning stones off and that’s why I was watching the video to see if you had that fixed. I think I need to roll first with the heavy blue roller but I’m not sure.

[@mterenzi]

I’m guessing narrow tires might help for reducing crop destruction during harvesting?

[@FarmerKlein]

narrow tires should eliminate the risk of crop destruction.

[@davebond2381]

I plan to harvest my field (I filled all the gaps) with my Fendt 942 with narrow twin wheels so avoid destroying any of the crop.

[@painedragon128]

The most important info here was "How long it takes to grow." Since we now know how long it takes to grow we can figure out what month to plant in so we can go direct from harvest to sale at the highest price. Thank You

[@FarmerKlein]

That will work once. but when it regrows it wont be ready to harvest the second time at that point. Remember this crop regrows forever.

[@painedragon128]

@@FarmerKlein Realized that as I read your comment. LOL Here I thought I had a Great Idea. You are absolutely correct that it is not gonna matter really. Does Poplar wither? Hhmm. Trying to figure away to Store the wood chips without buying a bunch of trailers. Gonna take some more thinking. Thanks for the Great Info Series.

[@AlRoderick]

Storing wood chips is easy, you just tip them on the ground. Picking them back up can be a little bit more of a pain, but that's why Giants and those lovely swedes at Volvo built us wheel loaders.

[@painedragon128]

@@AlRoderick I was thinking the new Forage Harvester mod that goes on the tractor front 3 point would work well. That would both harvest the poplar and pick up the wood chips. Also would be less expensive up front since only need 3 items to do the job. (tractor, trailer, forage harvest header). While the wheel loader would be great its another piece of equipment and expensive.

[@FarmerKlein]

@@painedragon128 no it does not wither

[@xsquid4000]

You can shorten the width and will plant a full field. I did this with the field directly to the north of the starter farm and made well over $1m. Looking forward to the next harvest in about 6 sleeps. Just be sure you've got a couple of big trailers, they fill fast! I ended up using the 3 point harvester on the front of a big tractor to save over the Jaguar. Its a little more difficult because the header and the harvester attachment have to be lowered independently, but not terrible to manage once you get the hang of it. Its a bit of a pain that the ready to harvest state is over 12 months, since that makes it hard to time the harvest to the best price, but I think you can store wood chips in the train silo for free. I know that works for spinach.

[@FarmerKlein]

I think you would lose to much with crop destruction. I had some with the default spacing.

[@outhouse9451]

Does the baler or harvester get different yields?

[@fsfan7384]

thank you Farmer klein for shooting this video in 1st person! 3rd person just does not look right although for some people i guess its nice that Giants made this a option however gameplay looks MUCH better in1st person. i may check this out in the future however at the moment im dealing with my cow needs on Farm of ben on ver 19 my suggestion to all of you if you feel the way i do where the best verson of the game has already been made find map exclusives to each verson and have the game shine there it will be at its brightest theres even a few exclusives as far back as 17 the only reason i havent reinstalled that ver is because i have the platnium tropthy AND all achievements on BOTH platforms

[@FarmerKlein]

ya im not a fan of 3rd person either.

[@las347]

Sooo this is the one! Spinach who :)

[@jimjasutis5046]

So proud of you for using the wide spacing. You could have really padded your stats if you did the dense planting.

[@Skullwalker]

Stat padding? 😂😅🎉

[@FarmerKlein]

crop destruction I had a small amount of it with the standard spacing.

[@jimjasutis5046]

@@FarmerKlein This was definitely my best so far. Even on normal economy the same field that barely broke even with spinach got me $161,405. I saw a video of a real farmer. He mentioned that he had spent seven and a half weeks plowing last spring. That is the way I felt while harvesting the poplar. That forage harvester seems to crawl.

[@morath2339]

There is a pellet production that has wood chips as input

[@FarmerKlein]

I dont factor in mods in these videos.

[@outhouse9451]

Funny how we’ve had the same tree planter since the beginning of tree planting

[@ram89572]

I never played with it before because when of first came out you had to use the footage harvester before they released the baler

[@calebkepple1964]

I always plant poplar to bale up since it’s always a good income source

[@RodneySizemore-uf4yu]

Timestamp 33:04 aside from yhe tediousness of planting poplar, it will become one of my main crops now and forever more, gonna play around with seasons and see how far apart I can stagger planting crops of poplar, to them harvestable one after the other or mostly year round, my goal to make a million dollars off of one year of harvesting poplar by itself...should be fun and boring to death all at the same time lmao😂😂😂

[@KingJayJay]

great info on the poplar I will absolutely take advantage of this profit I do wonder however if you can fix the spacing on the AI worker by setting the correct working width of the tool since the working width it shows for the AI is for the implement wich is 2.4m but in the shop it shows the planter has a working width of 1m so could you fix that spacing issue by adjusting the AI working width to 1m?

[@MrBertstare]

Yes. The biobaler also shows up in GPS with the wrong working width it’s like Giants didn’t QA any poplar stuff

[@fraserskomorowski2311]

Does that poplar forage header fit the LACOTEC LH 2? That would make things cheaper & easier than the bio-baler.

[@FarmerKlein]

should

[@rc51aaron]

It definitely does

[@Oldman_Gaming5150]

👍

[@stonedmountainunicorn9532]

How about periodic plowing after 3 harvests? it's 15% yield loss if it happens.

[@FarmerKlein]

its also the end of the crop and you would have to replant. You do you but I would just eat the yield loss than to have to replant the crop.

[@stonedmountainunicorn9532]

@@FarmerKlein Wouldn't replant but good to know that after 3 harvests you also have to plow

[@Al-ny8dr]

I've been watching all these videos, and have a question. I don't quite understand the terminology of headlands, and why they are used. In the last farm sim game, I just planted straight rows and everything was just fine.

[@AlRoderick]

The headlands is just the space you need at either end to turn the machine around. When the worker is doing a field it needs to do the perimeters in order to be able to have space to turn around and not get hung up on the trees or fences or whatever at the edges of the field. And so its standard pattern is to do a certain number of perimeters around the field before it does the vertical rows.

[@FarmerKlein]

As AlRoderick beat me to it with the way Giants changed how workers now work the fields they turn on the field vs turning off the field. This allows Giants to build maps that have less buffer between the field and obstructions like buildings and trees, rivers and fences. It also helps out alot with respect to mod maps where mappers do not always want large open areas outside the fields. The headland(s) allow you or the AI to open up the field and make turning around easier with out running into things at the edge of fields or running over and damaging crop.

[@Al-ny8dr]

@@AlRoderick Ok thanks. I hardly ever use helpers, so that makes sense.

[@Al-ny8dr]

@@FarmerKlein And thank you, too. I hardly use helpers. I prefer to mess things up myself.

[@willgibson9718]

can you help with rice making and it is a forage harvester 17:50

[@FarmerKlein]

rice - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGmkoZh6ib6eiJo

[@willgibson9718]

@ can you use power tools ⚒️ mod on fa25 for seeds

[@solidus3168]

Now imagine when the Colossus Pack comes….

[@alexmaddocks7179]

Poplar is so OP that I have assume it's sale price going to be nerfed one of these updates

[@FarmerKlein]

The filltype is woodchips and I don't see this being changed its just that poplar is an 'easy' way to get a ton of woodchips vs traditional forestry. Poplar has been a big profit crop for longer than just FS25. Its just not very popular as I mentioned in the video.

[@mtbiker678]

Actually poplar yield was increased last patch substantially.

[@robert.landwehr9237]

I give it a shot fk thanks buddy

[@outhouse9451]

The bumper is pointless. If you touch any plants with the wheels they get destroyed anyway

[@v8trucker]

Can AI run the harvester?

[@FarmerKlein]

it should

[@v8trucker]

@FarmerKlein Thanks👍