hello it's ricardo and welcome back to farming simulator 22. today we're going to talk about
sunflowers perhaps one of the prettiest crops you can possibly get in farming simulator 22 and
we're going to talk about preparation growing and harvesting them and then making big money
just before they're ready to harvest sunflowers look absolutely fantastic swaying in the breeze
on your farm in farming simulator 22. today we're going to talk about what is needed to
plant sunflowers nurture the land and harvest them it's another lovely evening on the farm and time
waits for nobody even the farm hand and we are spreading fertilizer way into the night with my
prepared field i have put lime i have cultivated it i've put lime i've put fertilizer i have
rolled it i've put another layer of lime i've put another layer of fertilizer and i've done a light
weeding and then with that i've got myself over to my favorite place the shop spent some money
and i've got a bit of sunflower planting machinery now i need a weight at the front of my tractor so
i'm going for a john deere 1800 weight it's a nice old tractor i like this tractor that i've got here
um it's more than capable of towing this huge planter that i've got you'll also notice the
size of the planter i've got some seeds seeds will go in the back of this planter in the yellow
hoppers and they will allow me to plant a multitude of other items sunflowers
all that sort of thing because to be fair planting sunflowers is the same as planting wheat
oats corn barley and soya beans very important to have a nice cultivated
and tender field so you've got all the fertilizer in place here we are we've got a huge device we're
approaching our huge field we're going for field 39 we're going to hire a contractor
we're going to extend our device mrs look at this look at the range on that we've selected
sunflowers as the crop of choice it's march perfect time of the year to be planting sunflowers
our contractor's going to lower the device and away they go we'll just
let them go off and do their thing and that is sunflower seed planting
dead easy let him go off and do his thing it'll take about 20 minutes for him to go off
real-time in-game time to plant this particular field it's a huge old field but we will get
a bumper crop and bumper harvest from this once it gets to the season where we can harvest it
so this is march and we've done our field preparation and we've sewn our sunflowers
as you can see sunflowers are march april and may or march and april just the end of
april and we can start harvesting sunflowers at the beginning of october and through november
fair enough now different stages of the process of sunflowers you'll think oh are they ready to do
are they ready do they look absolutely fantastic you don't want a nice looking sunflower that's the
prettiness of the sunflower seeds what you want is an old withered sunflower and you only get those
get close to the harvesting season this is just eye candy as far as i'm concerned
so with october now upon us i've gone to get myself the biggest combine i could possibly
get my hands on any further mods it's a huge class device with tracks at the front i've got
myself a huge corn header as well the biggest one i could possibly get no any further mods went into
the shop into corn headers right the way to the john deere c16f for 127 000 pounds look at that
look at the corns headers on that great stuff i'll be able to use this
for sunflower and for harvesting as well as you can see there what it's actually can do
now it's five tens it's got a width of 12 meters and how this difference to the other
headers you've got which for more grain-like substances you can see what the traditional
headers will take literally everything else so we're going for the corn header sunflower header
we're going to get this attached to a lovely whopping great big class combine there you go
q to attach it's got a nice long spout on the back of it so we have to get ourselves a nice
old truck as well and then we're going to get this all the way down to the field ready for harvest
so now we're at the field we can see our sunflowers have turned
from that lovely traditional sunflower look to a withered old plant this is prime for harvesting
we're ready to harvest we've got a good yield as well a class lexion 8900 is on
its way we've got our contractor our contractors unfurling the combine the head has been lowered
pipes extended and away we go look at all those litres of sunflower seeds that have been harvested
in this combine harvester animation on this is fantastic you can even see all the sunflower seeds
being churned out separated mushed down inside the combines hopper now on a field like this
i typically have to decanter all the sunflower seeds about twice i would say
perfectly honest with you at the same time then i then got a bit of cultivation going
on to follow the combine in its footsteps when i got myself a nice big trailer
lined myself up which is a skill in itself the pipe extended fire
my contractor my contractor then decanted all the sunflower seeds into the trailer
and like i said it's not as easy as it looks i should really get the hang of using cruise control
as well now you can see i'm on the left hand side of the combine so i'm not destroying any crops
this is all the bits of the crops that have been harvested so i'm driving on a harvested
part of the field on the crop side so something to bear in mind when you start to unload all your
sunflower seeds from your combine harvester and that's generally it plough and prepare your field
two sets of lime or lime then you want your fertilizer then you want your lime then your
fertilizer again give it a bit of rolling get it planted wait for weather to happen
and away you go now so sunflowers as you can see feeding grains south 2200 but because we're doing
this in october which is harvesting season the prices are pretty low so even the farmers market
is quite low so what you can do to maximize your crop is not sell these things straight away as you
can see october november it's in the red prices are really low you want to wait till they're in
the green so prices are rising a little bit so if you've got a hopper or a big storage tank
on your farm the nice big silver silo go and offload sunflower seeds
to your farm couldn't be easier and then wait for a more apt time in the market to go and sell them
and maximize your profits so we'll get this truckload of sunflower seeds off to my farm
now we're here there's the big old silo with the great and just as you offload things at
the farmers market and things like that you can then approach the grill press i to unload once
you're all lined up and sunflowers will be overloaded into that great big silo
i might think oh you've missed half of that no they all go in don't worry about it
so once you've got them out there that's great what you can do then is when you're ready to sell
at the appropriate time which will be say january or february february time would be ideal for us
i think what we can do then is we can then go to the silo and then start filling press r to
start filling select what you want to fill it with so we'll scroll through to sunflower seeds
12 967 liters that will fill nicely into the back of our trailer keep on overloading and away you
go and it's as simple as that take it off to wherever you want to go and sell it where you
can get the best price hey i hope you've enjoyed this video i've quite enjoyed doing the sunflower
harvesting it's been great nice all big pieces of machinery you know and getting involved with the
crop preparation and then finding the best market of where to sell them you can make a lot of money
with sunflower seeds in this game you really can and you know the great big core headers look great
i've been ricardo thanks very much for watching check back for more videos in
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