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Farming Simulator 20 is the mobile version of the popular FS game series. Here, the player has a choice: to engage in farming and crop cultivation, livestock breeding, or something else. However, each process has its own features that you need to know to avoid mistakes. In this guide, we will figure out how to feed cows in FS20. It’s quite simple and done in a few steps. 

Buying a trailer and the animals themselves
First of all, we need to buy cows. To do this, buy a special trailer for transporting animals, attach this trailer to our tractor, drive to the store where animals are sold (animal dealer, shown on the map). The store has many different cows; the choice is yours. Select the desired cow and the number of cows, then press the "confirm" button. Congratulations, you have bought a cow!  
Note! You can transport several animals at once in one trailer. This all directly depends on the type of trailer and its capacity.

Now make sure the cows are in our trailer, and head to our farm where the cowshed (cow pen) is located. Near your cowshed, there will be an icon. You need to drive up to this icon, and a special menu will open where you can unload the trailer and move the animals into the pen. In the menu, select the animals you want to keep in this cowshed (to do this, press the orange button in the middle, between the "Confirm" and "Back" buttons). That’s it, press "confirm".

After that, your cows will already be in the cowshed. 

Animal needs: feed
Your cows (like any other animals) have needs. You need to take care of your animals: feed and water them, and only then will you receive the necessary resources from them: milk, manure. 
First, go to the animal menu, where all the current animals you own and their needs are displayed. Check this menu every 3-4 minutes to make sure everything is fine with the animals. In the corresponding menu, you will see the type of cow, how long ago you bought this cow, how much milk, manure, and slurry you have received, and productivity in percentage. In the right window, the requirements will be shown. 
Cows need to be fed grass and hay. Getting grass is simple: first, mow the area where grass grows with a mower, then use a baler, which will collect all this grass (or hay) and turn it into a bale. 

Next, we will need a special trailer for transporting bales. Attach the trailer to our tractor and go collect the grass bales. Collect all the bales, then drive to our cowshed, to the icon where the bales are unloaded (see screenshot).

Wait for the unloading. Note that some bales will disappear immediately, while others will remain at the point where you unloaded them. Don’t worry, over time these bales will automatically disappear as soon as the cows need food. 
The same situation applies to hay bales. Just use the baler, then load all the bales into our trailer with the automatic unloading function, drive to the cowshed, and unload. 
Go back to the animal menu and see that they already have enough food. 

Important note! If you want your cows to produce manure, which can be used as free fertilizer, don’t forget to give them straw. Straw is unloaded separately from hay and grass bales, at a special point (it has its own icon). 

Straw unloads automatically as soon as you place the trailer in the correct position (as shown in the screenshot).


Animal needs: water
Now it’s time to give our cows water. For this, water is required. Buy a trailer for transporting water. Attach our empty trailer to the tractor and look for a water source. There are many water sources, so it won’t be difficult to find one. Drive up to the icon near the water source and start filling our trailer. Water filling starts automatically.

As soon as the trailer is full, return to our cowshed. Drive up to the water unloading point (there is an icon, see screenshot). Water from the trailer begins to unload, and now your cows have water. Open the menu again and make sure that in the needs window your cows have enough water to drink, and productivity is at 100%. 

So, we have figured out how to feed and water cows in Farming Simulator 20. 

Earning money is a very important process in Farming Simulator 20. Beginners often make mistakes that cause them to lose all their starting money. It is crucial to manage your funds wisely and know how to make money from farming; otherwise, you risk losing your business. Many beginners, unable to cope with the task, resort to microtransactions or download various .apk files/cheats to hack the game and get a lot of money. In this article, we will give you some tips on how to increase your income in FS20 and how to earn more money.

Choose the Right Crop
One of the main ways to earn money in FS20 is by growing various crops. They differ in many ways: the method of cultivation, the tools and machinery required, and the profit. You should grow crops that can be sold for a fairly decent amount and yield a good income. 
Growing soybeans is an extremely profitable activity. Soy sells at a high price, and the most notable thing is that growing this crop does not require particularly expensive machinery. For example, if you decide to earn money by selling cotton, you should consider that this requires quite expensive machinery, which is not available at the start of the game. You will have to spend literally all your funds to be able to grow cotton, and it would be unwise to invest everything in one place. 
In the case of soybeans, nothing overly expensive is required, and you will get a high profit from selling it. Of course, you need to pick the right moment. Constantly growing the same crop is also not advisable, as the price may drop, but if you want to make money quickly, soybeans are an excellent choice.
Keep in mind that there is no specific "golden" crop. It will take time for you to understand how to earn money properly, what to grow, and what to focus on. However, try to figure out as early as possible which crops are really worth growing and which will cost too much and take a long time to pay off. 

Use Fertilizers
Yes, many experienced players might consider this advice obvious. But this guide is mainly for beginners, and many do not know that fertilizers play an important role in crop profitability. Applying fertilizer is just an additional, optional step in growing crops, which is why some players simply ignore it. However, fertilizers significantly increase your crop yield. In the end, you will get much more harvest and more money. Fertilizing your fields will give you almost twice the harvest and twice the profit. 

Make sure you fertilize the field 100%. Some fertilizer spreaders do not do the job very well and only fertilize the field 50%. In that case, you will have to go over the field twice. But some spreaders fertilize the field 100% right away and significantly increase yield. Don’t forget this!
If you are involved in animal husbandry in FS20, you will have the opportunity to get free manure, free fertilizer. If you are not involved in animal husbandry, just buy fertilizer in the store. 

Use a Good Harvester
When your crop is ready to be harvested, special harvesting machines are used – combines and headers for them. At the start, in "new farmer" mode, you get a harvester for free. However, many players forget to upgrade their machinery, and most importantly – the combine with the header. 
The starter combine is very slow and does a poor job. The standard working width is too small, which prolongs the harvest, wasting precious time, and time is money.
Yes, you shouldn’t immediately buy the most expensive machinery, but over time, buy more expensive and powerful combines and headers, and any machinery in general. Using expensive and reliable machinery with a good working width and high speed will save you a lot of time, which you can spend on more important tasks. 

You need to upgrade all your machinery eventually, but that takes time. Try to upgrade your combine with the header as early as possible when you have extra money. 

Engage in Animal Husbandry
An important part of the game is animal husbandry. Taking care of animals is interesting and profitable. It is worth considering cow care separately. Yes, taking care of sheep is much easier, but there is one peculiarity. Sheep produce wool, and the game will often notify you that there is no more storage space for wool, so you will constantly have to transport this resource. With cows, you don’t have such troubles.
But why cows specifically? Let’s start with the fact that cows produce milk. This is a fairly valuable resource that you can sell for a high price and make a good profit. We have already written about how to take care of cows in FS20. 
Besides milk, cows produce fertilizer (manure). That is, you can use this fertilizer when growing crops to increase crop yield. In this case, you simply get double profit since you don’t have to buy fertilizer in the store. 

Spend Money Wisely
And the last piece of advice – spend your money wisely. There may come a time in the game when it seems like you have too much money. Under no circumstances should you spend your money carelessly. It is especially important to save money at the beginning of the game. If you spend money without understanding what you are doing, very soon you will have to delete your old save and start over from scratch.
For example, if you have a regular tractor that is still working fine and doesn’t need replacement or upgrading, many beginners immediately rush to buy a more expensive, flashy, and powerful tractor, but this is a mistake. With this approach, you will soon run out of money.

First, figure out what machinery you lack, what tools you need, and what you should buy to increase your income. In other words, plan all your purchases. Plan not only your purchases but all your actions. Think about whether you really need a particular machine or if the money could be better invested in buying another tool that will increase your income, because FS20 is not only a farming game, it is also a finance game. Learn to allocate your funds properly. 

Grass is used in many places, but not every player knows how to properly sow, fertilize, and mow grass in Farming Simulator 20. In this guide, we will figure out how to correctly handle grass in FS20, what equipment we will need for this, and what grass is generally used for. 
First of all, we will need a special cultivator for grass. In fact, many cultivators support a special processing function for grass. When buying, make sure there is the same icon as in the screenshot below. If such an icon is present, it means the cultivator is suitable for us. In our case, we will buy the Discolander XM 52. 

Great, we already have the cultivator we need. It's time to finally get to work. Attach our brand-new cultivator to the tractor and head to our field that needs to be prepared for sowing. The Discolander XM 52 has one very important feature. Thanks to this cultivator, you can not only cultivate the soil but also simultaneously sow grass and canola. Yes, it sounds quite strange, but in practice, it works very simply. Let's get started:
Attach our Discolander XM 52 to the tractor and fill it with seeds. Refilling takes literally a second, so it won't take much time;Approach our field where we plan to grow grass, lower/open our tool, and wait for the animation to finish;

Now stand at any edge of our field and calmly, without rushing, drive across the entire field. Our cultivator simultaneously cultivates the soil and sows the seeds.
The first stage of our work is complete. The soil is successfully cultivated, the seeds are sown, now it's time to do an equally important task – fertilize the field. Remember, fertilizing is not mandatory but very important, as fertilizers significantly increase the yield of any crop. Follow these steps:
Buy a sprayer/spreader for fertilizers if you don't have one yet;Attach it to our tractor;Refill our sprayer, which takes just a few seconds. Fertilizers can be obtained in different ways; in the case of a sprayer, liquid fertilizers are required, not solid ones;Drive again to the edge of our field where grass is already growing, open the tool (usually, sprayers have a fairly large working radius);

Fertilize the entire field by driving over it once.
Okay, the process is complete. Now we just need to wait a bit for the grass to grow. This won't take too long. Wait until the grass is fully grown, and then start the next stage. For the next stage, we will need a mower. Go to the store, to the "Mowers" category, and buy the mower you need. 

Head to the store and attach the purchased mower to our tractor. Return to our field where the grass needs to be mowed. 
Note! There is a strange bug with the mower in Farming Simulator 20. The mower attaches at the back, but another part of the mower suddenly appears in front of the tractor. It looks odd, but don't worry, everything is fine.

Now let's proceed with the process:
Drive to our field and open the mower;Stand near the edge and drive across the entire field. If you do everything correctly, there will be an animation, and the appearance of the grass will change, meaning you will see that the grass has been mowed;

When the entire field is mowed, you can detach the mower and decide what to do next with all this grass.
So, we have figured out how to sow, fertilize, and mow grass in Farming Simulator 20. But there is one more very important point – what to do with all this mowed grass? There are several options. If you need grass in this form, you can buy a baler tool and make bales out of all the collected grass. Or you can use a loading wagon (a special trailer) to collect and transport all this grass. If you need hay, you can dry all this grass.
By the way, grass is mostly used in animal husbandry. Many animals use grass as food, and hay is also heavily required in animal husbandry and some other areas. So now you know how to get grass and hay in FS20. 

Some players have no idea how to sell their equipment and tools in Farming Simulator 20. Yes, this is quite a big problem, because with the purchase of new equipment, you should get rid of the old one, but this cannot be done in the usual way, since there is no option to sell your equipment in the store. In this small guide, we will figure out how to still sell your tools / equipment in FS 20.Just follow this steps:Open the menu in the game, where you can open the price chart, see the needs of your animals, and so on;In this menu, select the "Vehicles" tab, right under the "Prices" button;When you click on the Vehicles button, a menu opens where your vehicles are displayed.;We choose the vehicle that we want to sell;We see the "Sell" button from below. Click on this button and that's it, the equipment has been successfully sold, and money is coming to your account. At the same time, there is no need to worry that you will mistakenly sell the wrong equipment. Clicking on the Sell button opens a small window where you need to confirm the sale. It is in this window that the image of your equipment/ tool is displayed. Following this simple instruction, you can easily sell your tools and vehicles in Farming Simulator 20.

It can be difficult for beginners in Farming Simulator 20, because there are many different moments that are poorly explained in the game, and beginners continue to play in the wrong way. A very common mistake is ignoring fertilizers. There are various fertilizers in the game that significantly improve the yield of your crops. However, this is an optional process, and for this reason, many beginners simply ignore this stage, not even suspecting how much profit they are actually losing.Let's start with how fertilizers should be used. The field can be fertilized several times, and it needs to be fertilized every time you grow a new crop. If you use a cheap tool for spreading fertilizers, there is a high probability that your field will be fertilized by only 50%. This is also enough, but it is best to achieve a 100% result, and for this you need to fertilize the field twice (at the same time, fertilization occurs at least after one stage).With the use of more modern and expensive equipment, you can fertilize the field instantly by 100%. Yes, such a technique may cost more, but it's worth it, because you will save a lot of time, you will be able to fertilize the entire field 100% in one approach. Important notes about fertilizers:There are several types of fertilizers in the game. Each of this type has its own characteristics and methods of obtaining.There are several different ways to get manure for fertilizers. For example, you can just go to the store and buy a pallet with manure. But if you like animal husbandry, then it is quite possible to get free manure. To do this, you will need cows, which are quite useful animals in themselves, but also constantly produce manure, which is no worse than purchased. You should always use fertilizers. If you do not use them, you will get almost one and a half to two times less harvest. Consequently, your profit will drop significantly. Yes, you will have to buy manure if you don't have animals, but this price will pay off several times. In no case save money, fertilize your fields always!