PIGS TEST - Farming Simulator 22

Ever wondered when you should sell your pigs? How much they eat? How much they cost? If they are even worth doing?
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[@tjpatton8562]

So basically pigs net you about 10-20$ per month per pig. Idk if i like those numbers.

[@gordobot24]

Yeah. And when you take the price of what you could have made just selling the crop you were feeding them, sounds like it is nearly break even? This model might make some income if you raise the birthing pigs. Slurry fertilizer isn’t very potent in-game either and a spreader can run $30k + unless you want to fill it every round. Sounds like you need some production mod to help with income rather than direct sale.

[@joelg8004]

I’ve always bought 0 month old pigs, 1/10th of my capacity each day. Once they finally start reproducing, I sell the oldest ones each day at 9 months. But I’m not much of a mathamamatologist so no idea how profitable that was.

[@SarelvdWalt]

Theoretically if you buy 1/25th (4%) of your capacity each month then it could work. Maybe. Also not a math genius.

[@koffmann1689]

It's actually the most efficient way to raise pigs because you don't have to micromanage offspring. For instance, a large pig pen with *270 pigs will net you €13,873 monthly while consuming about 10,000 liters of food. Using pig food as a base price at *€900 per thousand liters, you can expect to make a profit of €4,873, not counting slurry. If you have a BGA, you can expect that the *13,000 liters of slurry will net you an average of €6,000 monthly on medium difficulty. In the base game, pigs take time to return the investment, and the same goes for other animals *except chickens and productions. Pigs take around 4 years of you taking care of them to really turn a profit, which is why a BGA is important for reducing that time significantly. The only way to increase your margins even more is decreasing the price of food. If you micromanage those foods that on *high price are worth less than €900 (sugarbeet, barley & others), putting the right amount in the pen and then using pig food on top, you'll average out less than €900 per thousand liters. Sources: I've read the source files, tested in-game, and simulated. I also have 1080 pigs in my current savegame. I'm a good at math. It's my job.

[@badpritt3845]

You don´t need to cover all the food categories to get 100% healthy pigs. It´s sufficient to reach a total "food score" of 75%. So Base food / Corn will give you 50%. You then need to add another 25%. So either grain (25%) or protein (20%) plus root crops (5%).

[@petergamestudios]

You can also use carrots/parnships/red beet from premium expansion to feed them, which is going to be a bit cheaper

[@Zdeno8525]

Maybe another saving cost would be to use slurry for fertilizing and now you dont need to spend noney on fertilizer that would be better to add rather than using the pricing because you dont need to sell slurry and if you use it you basicaly save money from buy fertilizer so it would make it more worth than the sell price

[@roytje1370]

Thank for the tip to sell them at 25 months instead of 24. Im on Alma now setting up a pigfarm. But my pigs are going to a Butcher 🥩🥓

[@JosModding]

Can you do a donut test?

[@RandomFBagain]

I got pigs for just manure and slurry although i have a mod that can turn straw to manure but i turn it into digestate and energy and blah blah and sometimes use it for my field but i got a mod that gives you cheap pig food well it sells it to you

[@TheCaptain64]

Love this thanks, Ill have to start playing in normal economy instead of easy. and only feed them pig food from the shop, instead of feeding them my grain stocks .

[@peadarbradaigh8612]

Love your in depth analyses. Please keep them coming!

[@geanfreitas0611]

Thank you! Yesterday I assembled a feed lot for 1000 pigs, bought 100 to start. Didn't know the best time to sell it and also didn't know how periodically they can reproduce 😮 Is an organic farms, so no chemicals in my crops, just manure and slurry, so I'll need a lot of this boys to keep up fertilizing fields Thabk you again 😊

[@IanEdmonds]

Thanks! It's unfortunate that if you are running on easy mode it's basically not worth it to do them.

[@FarmerCop]

I agree would be nice if they cows changed value depending on economy mode

[@danielyoder1804]

I know you had to do root crops for a 100% test, but Ive always just skipped root crops for pigs, too expensive and slow going, unless you use mods. you get 100% health (and manure) with straw and the 5% bonus from root crop doesnt really matter To their final price. I understand root crops are the most profitable and some people enjoy it, so i get why people do it, just not my thing.

[@allgamerprogram344]

Love the math and numbers on the net profits of everything you test. Have you ran the numbers on bought grain yet? In your production test you had the numbers for fertilizer, seeds etc but not if you bought it the wheat pallets from the marketplace. Instresting idea if that's profitable or even can be so you wouldn't need to farm period.

[@precious1557]

Flour mill makes pig food as a byproduct, I haven’t brought pigs yet but plan to use it.

[@frederickoliver7108]

Surely the most cost effective option of feeding pigs would be using the crops that have the highest yield per hectare rather than the cost of the crop at sell? The logic being your giving up that field to feed your pigs so you want to maximise the units of food per hectare so you give up less fields.

[@gordobot24]

Great point!

[@sgregg5257]

Are you the CFO for the police department??? Thanks!

[@Muppetworth]

Excellent analysis. Just what i was looking for. Thank you.

[@Dark40061]

Farm cop, I think you should get more skill in Excel, because of the way you were doing it. When I was watching it made me cringe. The video was amazing and I love this kind of video. Keep up with the good work. I really do love this video, and can not wait to see a sheep and, cow test video.

[@jlyo1991]

Accountant. I am with you. 😂 it was like watching my old boss.

[@uniformnebula]

According to the spreadsheets the pigs are -$9 (bought food) +$3 (grown food) in value every month after 6m. (Eating $42 in grown food or $54 in bought food, gaining $45 in saleable value) So wait until they’re 10mo and they give you new pigs then ship em out. Giving a bought food profit of $173/pig or a grown food profit of $250/pig. Ignoring initial costs.

[@BarryH1963]

Thank you my friend this is a big help I've been farming since fs15 but I have never attempted to keep pigs before but now I'm on FS 22 I think I might just try lovely content also love the content on your other channel as well keep up the great work

[@docholliday1811]

Thank you. It was really helpful when considering a pig venture.

[@stevenortega7126]

Can you do do a cow test know

[@FarmerCop]

Yes coming soon

[@jacksonfletchersgaming3642]

So a quicker way to explain this would of been no it’s not really worth it

[@FarmerCop]

No i thinknit is worth it and have since started a series doing only pigs :)

[@Grazysworld]

How can use your own grown food be more expensive ? If you have big fields it's not a real big deal. I did some tests my self. But with big fields you sell enough, because a pig do not eat that much. And with the mixstation mod it's prety easy.

[@timothylangin4095]

It depends on what economy mode you play on easy mode inflates crop prices by a fair amount so the amount they eat would be worth more selling than what the pig food costs to buy. That’s what he is getting at.

[@FarmerCop]

Its not more expensive to do it with your own grown food, you will just make more money to sell your crops and not feed your pigs

[@NevFTW]

Thanks for spending the time to do this.

[@Fallub]

Great and very helpful. Thank you.

[@davidyoudontcare3562]

would be nice if you added a 60 seconds TL;DR part to your videos...

[@rh9477]

Thanks for this video! I usually only raise pigs if I happen to be using a factory mod that produces a lot of pig feed as a byproduct. In that case I just buy a few, let them reproduce, and sell them as soon as they hit their max price. This gives me some more things to think about!