

The grass on a Painted Meadow starts at Growth Stage 1, just like sowed grass. Note that Rollers do not automatically plant a meadow, either, making the Landscaping option much more preferable. This is a much quicker and more accurate alternative to using Rollers (which are much more difficult to use in this game). Painting grass on a field will erase that particular part of the field. Painting grass this way incurs a small cost for each square meter you paint, but you do not need to spend any money sowing grass on the painted area. You may turn most land into a Meadow by Landscaping it, using the "Paint Terrain" tool to place down one of the textures that includes grass. It is also impossible to Fertilize a meadow, resulting in less potential yield per hectare than field-grown Grass. Harvesting from Meadows is more difficult due to the inability to use Hired Workers.

You may not harvest Grass growing on non-owned Parcels. Meadows can be harvested just like field-grown Grass (see below), so long as you own the Parcel. At the start of the game, nearly 80-90% of the map should be covered in grass. Meadows are large areas of grass growing wild on practically any part of the map that isn't a field, road, building, or dirt. The most plentiful source of Grass is called "Meadows". However, the work of baling and wrapping Grass is not trivial, and is the least-efficient way to obtain large quantities of Silage. Silage is also a primary component in Total Mixed Ration. Hay is also a primary component of Total Mixed Ration, which is the best possible food for Cows.įinally, Bales of Grass can be wrapped in order to create a modest amount of Silage, increasing their value several times over. Instead, Grass can be processed immediately with a Tedder to turn it into Hay, which is slightly more profitable and much more effective as Cow feed. However, it can be fed to Sheep for maximum Productivity, or to Cows for minimum Productivity. In its basic form, Loose Grass is the cheapest of all crops, sold at the Barn for an average of only $81 per 1,000 liters. It can also be Baled or picked up by a Loader, and can even be automatically harvested into a Tipper using a properly-equipped Forage Harvester. It can then be Windrowed and collected using a Loading Wagon. An unfertilized hectare of Grass produces 43,700 liters of Loose Grass, which is normally left on the field. Grass is harvested with a special machine called a Mower. It also retains 50% Fertilization after the harvest.

After each harvest, grass automatically resets to the first growth stage without the need for sowing. It ignores the " Needs Plowing" state, the " Needs Lime" state, and does not grow any Weeds. Grass grows 50% more slowly than basic crops like Wheat, but it skips two growth stages entirely to reach maturity almost 3 times as quickly. It takes only 300 liters of Seeds to sow a hectare of field with Grass. It can also be sown on actual fields using a Seeder, or even with a few models of Cultivators and Weeders. Grass grows by default on most of the map, between fields. It is primarily useful in Animal Husbandry. The end product, Loose Grass, is plentiful but extremely cheap. It is a unique crop that requires multiple unique (but often cheap) machinery to grow and harvest. Grass is a type of Crop in Farming Simulator 19.
