SimAgri - Game rules

SimAgri is a Multiplayer Online Game that allows you to become a farmer. Simulation oriented, SimAgri offers you a wide range of activities and that means being as close to reality as possible.

You can choose between several activities, all related to agriculture :

- Breeding : You can choose between several species and breeds. Cattle, pigs, goats, sheeps, rabbits, chicken, guinea fowl, american buffalo that you will have to take care of daily.

- Cultivation/Crop : You can choose to grow wheat, corn, beets, soya and more. And why not try an orchard with apple trees for exemple.

- FWF : FWF stands for Farm Work Firm, you offer farm work services to other farmers like sowing, plowing, manuring and more.

- Transportation : You can become a hauling contractor. You will then manage your trucks, your drivers...

- Farm equipment Dealer : You sell farm equipment to other farmers. Buy, sell, repair, rent equipment...

- Stock Breeding Center : You will be in charge of performing artificial insemination for other farmers. Find the best breeding stock, sample semen et inseminate livestock...

- Agricultural Cooperative : You manage your Agricultural Cooperative by proposing plot contracts to other farmers, buying and selling their food and crop production through a partnership...

And there is much, much more...

- Signing up and starting SimAgri (0) top
Signing up for Simagri is free and will take no more than a couple of minutes. Once you have signed up, you can play immediately !

To start, you have to give your username and password. Then choose the place where you want to start your farm.

For free, you'll be able to buy new buildings, breeding stock, equipment and plots. The SimPass will allow you to enjoy the "commercial part" of SimAgri. The commercial part will allow you to sell your harvest, equipment, stocking breed... and will also give you access to other activities (FWF, Hauling Contractor, Farm equipment Dealer, SBR, AC). Different subscription types are available for your SimPass. It will also entitle you to access to contests and enjoy farm guardian services, very handy when you can't momentarily take care of your farm.

You can unsubscribe anytime. Your account is then stopped and all data lost. Also, if we detect cheating, multi accounts, your account will be deleted whether you had a SimPass or not.

- Important Advice to new players (0) top
If you decide to immerse yourself into SimAgri world, please read the game rules before getting started. For the impatient players who want to start immediatly, here is a summary of what you need to know to avoid a bad start.

Stock Breeding :

What you need :

- A tractor (90 horsepower max)
- A skip (8/10 tons max)
- A trailer (6/8 tons max)
- A cattle truck (4/5 tons)
- A storage building (50 sqm)
- A livestock building (50/100 sqm)
- A few silos for grain and fodder (2/3 tons)
- A water cistern (5000/10000 litres)
- Foodstuff

If you choose a livestock farm, we advise you to start with one species. It is easier to discover the game this way and accustom yourself with the game interface. Each species has his benefits and drawbacks, we advise you to start with either cattle, goats or sheep as they give you a steady daily milk production (additional income providing you have a milking station and a milk tank) and their breeding cycle is less intensive than other species, therefore you will have less younglings and just one birth period per year. This should help you have a good start as a livestock farmer. Once you have chosen the species you want, read carefully the rules concerning this type of breeding. It will tell you all about food type, surface needed per animal, breeding cycle...

Once you have made up your mind, you will have to wait until your buildings are built before buying animals. You will need a 50/100 sqm breeding building (stable, pigsty...) to start with. Plan also a storage building to store your straw/hay/fodder and a silos to store foodstuff (2 or 3 tons is good enough for a start) A silo for each food type is required. Finally, plan a water tank to water your livestock. To begin, buy a 5000/10000 litres one.

Now that you have all the necessary infrastructure you can buy foodstuff, hay and such. To do so, you need to buy a tractor, a skip and a trailer. We advise you to buy a 90 horsepower tractor max to begin and a small capacity skip and trailer. For tractor drawn equipment, always check the required power (your tractor must have enough power to handle them). We also advise you to buy second hand equipment when available, this will cut down your expenses. You can go now to SimAgri Market and purchase everything you need to start.

Now you are ready to start breeding your cattle, pigs etc in optimal conditions. You miss just one more thing, a cattle truck to transport your livestock to your farm. You bought it ? Now just run to Simagri Market and start buying livestock, but be careful, the more livestock you have, the more room you will need in your buildings, the more food you will need in your silos etc...

SETTLING IN HELP :
To help new players, a livestock dealer will visit you once a week for the first 4 weeks. He will randomly propose cattle, goats and/or sheeps that you will be free to buy or not. Livestock bought to this dealer can be later sold only to the slaughterhouse.

This is but a rules summary, you will learn much more by reading the game rules.

Cultivation :

What you need :

- A tractor (90 horsepower max. 80 horsepower for fruit production)
- A skip (8/10 tons max)
- A trailer (6/8 tons max)
- A storage building (50/100 sqm)
- Seeds
- Fertilisers
- Treatments (pesticides...)

By choosing to specialise in Cultivation/Crop farming, you will need less time than for livestock. Less tasks are required, but at certain times of the year (sowing, plowing, harvesting) you will be quite busy. Here are a few advices.

First of all, build a warehouse. You will store all your goods and equipment. Then buy a tractor, a skip, a trailer. Again, second hand equipment, if available is advised. It will allow you to carry seeds, fertilisers etc... (once the warehouse is built).

Then you will have to buy plots. Start with small ones, in order to start different crops. Choose plots close to your farm to spend less Action Points (AP) during your hauling/transportations.

To work on your plots, you can buy the necessary equipment alone or with friends, or you can ask a Farm Work Firm to do the work for you. This choice allows you to save money on equipment and invest in buying more plots.

Finally, always remember of doing the necessary actions on your plots at the right time, this will increase your production.

This is but a rules summary, you will learn much more by reading the game rules.

- The SimAgri Training Center (SATC) (0) top
The SimAgri Training Center (SATC) gives the opportunity to SimAgri beginners to get help from experienced players. The training is 42 days long (6 SimAgri months) and is open only to new players during their first 7 game days. If you fall under this category, you can have access to this training and you have to find a master farmer. This master farmer is also a SimAgri player like you but he is playing for quite some time and thus is experienced. You can contact him anytime during your training and ask for advice and/or help.

Why do I follow this training ?

This SimAgri training is not mandatory. however it may be of help for players not familiar with the agricultural world, also for people not familiar with internet games and fore mostly for people willing to master all SimAgri options. The apprentice, when finished with his training can benefit from a 25 000 euros granted by the SAEC. Both the apprentice and his master will be granted an additional free 4 days bonus on their SimPass.

- Units used in SimAgri (0) top
Time units :

1 week in real life represents 1 month in SimAgri (7 days from monday to sunday equal a month).

12 weeks in real life represent 12 months in SimAgri (7 days x 12 = 84 days)

12 weeks in real life represent 1 year in Simagri (84 days = a quarterly subscription).

It will take almost 3 real months (84 days) for a whole SimAgri year and watch the 12 months of the 4 seasons coming and going.

The time needed to perform game actions is expressed in Action Points (AP).

Everyday you are alloted 35 AP to do all your farm work. Everything you have to do in SimAgri requires AP. Be it drive a tractor, feed your livestock, harvest, milk your cows, everything will cost you AP. You can also hire farm hands to increase your AP.

Measurement Units :

Plot surface is expressed in hectare (ha) :
1 hectare (ha) = 10 000 square metres (100 metres x 100 metres)

The plot yield for cereals, fodder etc is expressed in metric tons/hectare (t/ha) :
1 metric ton = 1000 kilograms

To store and sell your harvest, you will use metric ton (t) or litre (l) :
1 metric ton = 1000 kilograms
1 cubic metre (m3) = 1000 litres.

Money Unit :

The money used in SimAgri is the euro.

- The farm (0)	top

Your farm is located in the area you have chosen (region/departement) when signing up. It is also randomly located in 1 of 10 zones that make up the departement. Those 10 zones are used to give a sense of distance and geographical repartition. The farms are more or less close to each other. The zone 1 being closer to zone 2 than to zone 10, zones 5 and 6 being in the middle. A move inside your zone costs 0.25 AP and then an additional 0.25 AP per zone.

Your farm as a whole comprises buildings, equipment, lands or plots and livestock and that's everything you need to manage your farm.

- Buildings and standing equipment (0)	top

There are several types of buildings and equipments, each with is own specificity.

Types of buildings (b) and equipment (e) :

(b) The barn/shed : used to store your farming equipment, store hay, seeds, fertilisers, phyto treatments and shelter your cattle in wintertime. Barns/Shed are measured in square metres (m2).
(b) Pigsty : used to shelter pigs, measured in square metres (m2).
(b) Goat pen : used to shelter goats, measured in square metres (m2).
(b) Sheep pen : used to shelter sheep, measured in square metres (m2).
(b) Hen house : used for poultry, geese and ducks sheltering. Measured in square metres (m²).
(b) Hutches : used to shelter rabbits, measured in square metres (m2).
(b) Warehouse : used to store straw or hay bales, seeds, fertilisers, phyto treatments, measured in square metres (m2).
(b) Silo : used to store harvest, measured in metric tons (m2). One silo per harvest type is required.
(b) Manure Pit : used to store manure, measured in mectric tons (t).
(b) Liquid Manure Pit : used to store liquid manure, measured in litres (l)
(e) Milk Tank : used to store and preserve milk, measured in litres (l).
(e) VBF tank : used to store Vegetal Bio Fuel for motor powered equipment like tractors, harvesters etc. VBF tank is measured in litres (l).
(e) Milking Station : used to milk cattle, goats and sheep, measured in milking units.
(e) Water tank : used to store water for your livestock, measured in litres (l).
(e) Trough : used to water the livestock in a meadow or in a wooded meadow, measured in litres (l).
(e) Hen pen : used for free range for poultry as well as geese and ducks. Measured in square metres (m²).
(e) Pig Pen and Pig Shelters : used for pigs raised in seminatural state (outdoors), measured in shelter units.
(e) Egg Packaging Room : used to package eggs, measured in egg packaging units.
(e) Egg Storage Room : used to store eggs after packaging, measured in stored eggs.
(e) Wool Storage Room : used to store the wool from sheared sheep, measured in kilogram of stored wool.
(b) Loading Area : used to load sold goods on trucks, measured in square metres (m2).
(b) Loading Silo : used to store sold foodstuff before they are loaded on trucks, measured in metric tons (t).
(b) Straw/Hay Storage Area : used to store straw/hay bales, measured in square metres (m2). A small loss in goods is to be expected.
(b) Storage Silo : used to store ensiled green corn in an undried condition, measured in square metres (m2). A small loss is to be expected.
(e) Corral : used to round up your buffalos, transport them, care... You need a corral per woody meadow.

Building a building and standing equipment :

When you decide to build a building, you have to choose the type of building and the surface area. Once built, a building can be extended. A certain amount of time is required for both building and extension. This time will vary depending the surface area chosen. Building and extending is done through the thumb index "Buildings". The building must be emptied before being extended.

Maintenance :

Your buildings won't stand forever. With time, bad weather and depending on their use, buildings will deteriorate. You will have to maintain them on a regular basis to keep them in good condition. For a building monthly maintenance, 0.3 AP are required. You can also pay a contractor to take care of the building maintenance for you. In this case the maintenance is done once per season and of course you'll have to pay the contractor for the maintenance done.

Destruction :

If you see it fit, you can also destroy a building or a standing equipement. The demolition contractor will give you 10% of the building value.

- Agricultural equipment (0)	top

There are a lot of different equipments available, each of them with different specs. SimAgri has an agreement with the manufacturers and is allowed to use the brand, logo, and specs for each of them. All those elements are and stay the property of those manufacturers. You can have a look to the Partnership page.

Equipment types :

Motorised equipment (tractor, loader, combine harverster, silage harvester)
Land working tools (cultivator, disc harrow, plough, rotary tiller...)
Sowing tools (seed drill, Precision seeders...)
Treatment tools (fertiliser spreader, sprayer, manure spreader...)
Transportation equipment ( tipping trailer, trailer, water bowser...)
Mowing tools (mower...)
Pressing tools (baler, round baler...)

Specifications :

Each equipment has his own specifications. They will influence the amount of AP you will have to spent when using them. To know more about them just have a look at the equipment sheet. Make sure you have a tractor powerful enough to draw them.

Maintenance :

Like your buildings, your equipment tends to wear down.. You will have to take care of them on a regular basis to avoid break downs. To maintain an equipment you will need 1AP per month.

List of equipment and their use :

For specialised arboricultural equipment, look up the "Arboricultural cultures" section --> Arboricultural equipement.

Equipment	Use	Culture/Goods	Remark

Tractor	Used to draw equipment	-	Motorised
Arbo Tractor	Used to draw equipment	Arboriculture Specific	Motorised
Cultivator	Soil stirring	All	Tractor Drawn
Manure spreader	Manure spreading	All	Tractor Drawn
Liquid manure tank	Liquid manure spreading	All	Tractor Drawn
Plough	Plowing	All	Tractor Drawn
Disc Harrow	Plowing the stubble	All	Tractor Drawn
Rotary Tiller	Rotary Tilling	All	Tractor Drawn
Seed Drill	Seeding	Wheat, Barley, Oats, Triticale, Sunflower, Grass, Colza, Peas, Flax	Tractor Drawn
Corn/beetroot Seeder	Seeding	Ensiled Corn, Corn grain, Beet root	Tractor Drawn
Planter	Planting	Potato	Tractor Drawn
Hiller	Earthing up	Potato	Tractor Drawn
Fertiliser Spreader	Fertilising	All	1 or 2 spreadings depending on culture, Tractor Drawn
Sprayer	Treatment	All	1 or 2 spreadings depending on culture, Tractor Drawn
Self Propelled Sprayers	Treatment	All	1 or 2 spreadings depending on culture
Tree Sprayer	Treatment	Arboriculture Spécific	Tractor Drawn
Combine Harvester	Harvesting	Wheat, Barley, Oats, Triticale, Colza, Peas, Sunflower, Corn grain	Motorised
Silage harvester	Ensiling	Ensiled Corn	Motorised
Sugarbeet harvester	Harvesting	Beet root	Motorised
Potato harvester	Harvesting	Potato	Motorised
Flax Harvester	Harvesting	Flax	Motorised
Flax turner binder	Turning/Binding	Flax	Motorised
Self Propelled Baler	Pressing/ Baling	Flax	Motorised
Press High Density square bale 500 kilos	Pressing/Baling	Wheat, Barley, Oats, Triticale, Peas, Grass	Tractor Drawn
Press Medium Density square bale 250 kilos	Pressing/Baling	Wheat, Barley, Oats, Triticale, Peas, Grass	Tractor Drawn
Round Baler round bale 300 kilos	Pressing/Baling	Wheat, Barley, Oats, Triticale, Peas, Grass, Flax	Tractor Drawn
Round Baler/Wrapper (round bale)	Pressing/Baling Wrapping	Grass	Tractor Drawn
Mowers	Mowing	Grass (Meadow)	Tractor Drawn
Hay Tedder	Tedding	Grass (Meadow)	Tractor Drawn
Hay Rake	Windrowing	Grass (Meadow)	Tractor Drawn
Meadow Harrow	Soil Aerating	Grass (Meadow)	Tractor Drawn
Front End Loader	Loading	Bale and Manure	Tractor Assembly
Télescopic Handler	Loading	Bale and Manure	Motorised
Trailer	Transport	Bale, seeds, fertiliser and phyto treatment	Tractor Drawn
Tipping Trailer	Transport	Harvest, food, manure	Tractor Drawn
Silo Unloader Distributor	Livestock Feeding	-	Tractor Drawn
Strawer distributor	Litter	Straw bale	Tractor Drawn
Water bowser	Trough filling in meadows	-	Tractor Drawn
Irrigation Drum	Plot/Orchard Irrigation	-	Tractor Drawn
Post Driver	Post/Stake Driving	Buffalo	Tractor Drawn
Barbwire Unwinding Machine	Enclosing	Buffalo	Tractor Drawn
Cattle Truck	Transport	Cattle, buffalo, goats, pigs , sheep	Tractor Drawn
Light Commercial Van	Transport	Poultry, Rabbits, Guinea Fowl	Motorised

- Equipment : Bio Fuel (VBF) consumption (0)	top

Depending on the equipment used, you will use Vegetal Bio Fuel (VBF). In SimAgri the VBF is produced and sold (from 0.36 to 0.55 euro/litre) by Agricultural Cooperatives. You can also buy VBF to SimAgr Cooperative but the price will be slightly higher (0.60 euro/litre). Without this bio fuel, you will not be able to use motorised equipment. So you have to buy VBF to AC or Simagri Cooperative and fill your VBF tank.

Once your VBF tank is full, you'll be able to use your motorised equipment. You can then fill your equipment tanks. To simplify fuel management, there is but one global tank for all your motorised equipment ( to avoid filling 20 tanks if you have 20 tractors for example). A fuel gauge will give you your tank filling level.

Then, every time you use a motorised equipment (journey and action taken in a plot or in the farm) the VBF used is taken directly from the global tank. Once emptied, you'll have to refill it...

List of motorised equipment and their consumption :

Equipment Consumption (journey) Consumption (action/work)

Tractor/ Arbo Tractor 0,05 litre / HP/ AP 0,08 to 0,20 litre* / HP/ AP

Combine Harvester 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,125 litre / HP / AP

Silage Harvester 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,150 litre / HP / AP

Sugarbeet Harvester 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,150 litre / HP / AP

Potato Harvester 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,150 litre / HP / AP

Flax Harvester 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,125 litre / HP / AP

Flax Turner Binder 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,125 litre / HP / AP

Self Propelled Baler 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,125 litre / HP / AP

Self Propelled Sprayer 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,120 litre / HP / AP

Telescopic Handler 0,05 litre / HP / AP 0,120 litre / HP / AP

* Tractor consumption at work depends on drawn equipment. For example, it will beless if it draws a silo unloader distributor instead of a plough.

Example :

My tractor has 100 horse power and I have to work on my plot. The journey to the plot represents 2AP and the work/action represents 5 AP. My consumption will be :

(100 HP*0.05*2 AP)+(100 HP*0.2*5AP) = 10 + 100= 110 litres total

Those 110 litres will be directly used from the farm tank.

- Equipment : breakdowns and insurance (0) top
Breakdowns :

As your equipment starts to wear on, breakdowns may happen. There are different types of breakdown and your vehicule can be immobilised up to 2 real days. The more an equipment is used the bigger the chance of breaking down. When your equipment is broke down, you have to options for repair :

- Call on SimAgri : In this case you have to pay the repair cost if the machine is not insured. If the machine is insured, the insurance will pay. In any case the machine will be stopped for a maximum of 2 days.

- Call a workshop (equipment dealer) : In this case the machine must be insured because it's the insurance company who will choose the workshop who will do the repairing. Thus you have nothing to pay. If you do not want to use the selected workshop, you can choose another but then part of the cost will be yours to pay. Workshops being managed by players, the repairing delay can be very short.

Insurance :

To cut down the expenses related to breakdowns, you can subscribe an insurance for each equipment. If your equipment breaks down, the insurance will pay fixing expenses.

- Buy/Sell Equipment (0) top
Buying and Selling equipment is done through the thumb index "Equipment", you will find there brand new and second hand equipment. You can sell your own equipment and fix the price you want but there is a Selling directory to help you fix a reasonnable price and help buyers as a reference. You can also negotiate the price with the seller.

When you want to sell one of your equipment, you can sell it to a Equipment dealer or just put an ad on the board. If you sell to an equipment dealer, try and negotiate the price. But if you buy a brand new equipment the selling price of your old one can be a bit higher. If you sell your old equipment directly through the board, you'll have to pay a fee of 1500 euros.

- Buying equipment in common (0) top
To lower your costs, you can form a partnership with other players to buy equiment in common. Those players must be part of your "friends" and their farms must be located in the same region than yours. You can be up to 5 players in a partnership, and your money share is up to you. The amount of time an equipment bought in partnership can be used by each player is proportional to the money share you invested.

When buying in common, take into account the distance between your farm and the farm of your "friends" and also the time of use each of you could have. The equipment cannot be used at the same time by 2 players.

When you decide to sell this equipment, the money will be distributed porportionnally to the initial investment made by each player when buying it.

- Equipment dealers (0) top
What is an equipment dealer :

The equipment dealer is a person selling agricultural equipment to farmers. Therefore you have to buy your brand new or second hand equipment from him. You can also sell equipment to him or bring your equipment for maintenance.

How can you be an equipment dealer :

If you want to be an agro equipment dealer, you must have been registered to SimAgri for at least 90 days. Your must also have an active SimPass to unlock this game option. To unlock the Dealer part of the game, you will have to give a call (roughly 1.80 euros) and the dealer part will be unlocked for an unlimited time. Once unlocked you will be granted for free your first sale outlet, a 200 m2 hall.

The outlet :

The outlet can be composed of one or several halls. The maximum surface of a hall is 200 m2. There, you can display the different equipments you have for sale. Equipment that are not displayed in a hall cannot be sold ! To manage your hall, you need to hire a salesman. If you have several halls, several salesmen are required.

Licenses :

Now that you have your sale outlet and the necessary sale personel, you need equipment to sell. You will have, first to choose the brands you will display in your halls. To do so, you are allocated 100 points per sale outlet, those points you have to distribute between equipment manufacturers you plan to be a dealer for. The amount of points may vary from one manufacturer to another.

Once you have chosen the manufacturers and distributed your 100 points, you have to pay for a one SimAgri year license (84 days in real life) to be able to sell equipment from a manufacturer. The license's price will vary from one manufacturer to another. You will also have to pay back part of your annual turnover at the end of the partnership year. This only for the new equipment, there is no payback for second hand equipment.

License prices, fees and paybacks are absolutely not representative of the real business. This system is SimAgri only. It was made to meet the game economy requirements and is not made to give advantage to one manufacurer or another. You will not find this data in real life and if you happen to find them, it will be pure coincidence, SimAgri having no access whatsoever to commercial data from the manufacturers present on its site.

Buying/Selling equipment :

You are finally ready to start your Dealer activity. You can sell brand new equipment, depending on the money you have, you can have a little stock of equipment and start directly selling them. If you are short on money, you will have to wait for a customer and order the equipment to the manufacturer. You will work in tended flow. Whatever strategy you will chose, you will always have to buy before selling therefore you will have to pay the necessary money in advance.

When you buy an equipment from a manufacturer, you have to find a contractor to transport it for you from the plant to your sales outlet. You can also take care of the transportation yourself if you have trucks.

When you are selling a brand new equipment, you can fix the selling price. Make sure your margin pays off your expenses, license expenses, fee, payback on your annual turnover, personnel, equipment transportation...

For second hand equipment, you can buy some from SimAgri market. A salesman visits your outlet every SimAgri month and offers you second hand equipment. You can also purchase them from farmers. When buying second hand equipment, do not hesitate to negotiate the price to get a good margin when reselling. You can also buy back second hand equipment as part of a deal with a farmer buying a brand new one, but this is not mandatory.

Sales of brand new equipment are possible only within the region where your outlet is located. Second hand equipment can be sold also at region level but buying second hand equipment can be done within the region but also througout the country. In the latter case, you will have to ask a contractor to deliver them to you.

- The Workshop (0) top
If you wish so, you can develop a maintenance and repairing activity for agricultural machines if you are an equipment dealer. To do so, you have to purchase a workshop that will allow you to do equipment maintenance and hire one or several mechanics (25AP/day, monthly salary 1400 euros). Mechanics have 2 skills (Wear and AP) scaled from 1 to 10, with those skills they can give back AP or decrease the wear percentage on maintained equipment. Result of maintenance will vary depending on the mechanic's skill.

Now that you have a workshop and a mechanic, you have to fix a price for the labour. This price may vary from 8 to 24 euros per AP. The amount of AP needed for maintenance depends on the type of equipment :

- Tools and Trailer Trucks : 2 AP
- Tractors, Telescopic Handler, Truck Tractor : 4 AP
- Combine Harvester, Silage Harvester, Harvester : 5 AP

To the labour you will add the price of the parts necessary for maintenance. Here the cost will also vary depending on the rype of equipment :

- Tools and Trailer Trucks : 100 euros
- Tractors, Telescopic Handler, Truck Tractor : 300 euros
- Combine Harvester, Silage Harvester, Harvester : 500 euros

On top of that, depending on your equipment, the price of parts is subject to a rise of 2% per year of age of your equipment. So a 5 years old equipment parts will have their prices increased by 10 %.

The cost of a maintenance takes into account the labour and the parts price. The workshop, gets only the cost of the labor. For a good profitability, a minimum price of 15 euros /AP is advised. You can of course change your price depending on the market, the competition and your mechanic's skills...

- Fixing / repairing :

On top of your maintenance activity, you can also develop a breakdown service. You will then take care of repairing machines in the player's farms. To develop this activity, you will need a workshop truck, this truck will allow you to move to the farms and bring all the necessary tools. You will also need a mechanic.

- Renting Equipment (0) top
In your outlet you can also develop an equipment rental service. So far only tractors can be rented out by outlets.

If you are a customer, you can rent a tractor only if your own tractor is broken down. In this case you can rent a tractor at one of the equipment dealers in the same region your farm is located. The rented tractor must have a power at least equivalent to your own (plus/minus 5 horse power). If it is lower , the renting will not be possible. The renting period cannot exceed the lenght of your tractor break down, the cost will depend on the amount of AP used.

If you are a dealer, you can rent out a tractor from its spec sheet by giving the cost/AP used. Once your tractor reaches its last day, you can scrap it !

- Cultures (0) top
SimAgri presents you with a large choice of cultures, thus you can diversify and make culture farming your main activity or your secondary activity. Before you start, check the following information to start from the right foot.

- General Information (0) top
In a few words, here are the things you need to know if you choose to start farm cultures. First of all, you have to avoid repeating the same culture on the same plot, thus you have to use systematic rotation on your plots over the years.

First of all: the yield. The yield is the quantity that you harvest every year, the yield unit is metric tons per hectare (t/ha). Several things will have an effect on the yield :

- soil quality
- fertilisers
- manure
- liquid manure
- phyto treatments
- the amount of sunshine
- the pluviometry
- the date of harvest

Your crops grow in fields or plots. The plot surface is given in hectare (ha). An Hectare = 10 000 m2. You can grow only one type of crop per plot. Some plots have a better yield than other because of their soil components.

Fertilisers increase your yield. When spreading it at the right time you will get better results on your crops. Make sure you check the dates for fertiliser spreading to get the best possible result (not mandatory).

Manure is very good natural fertiliser. Produced by your livestock, you spread it in your fields at a ratio of 25 tonnes per hectare. It requires a manure spreader and it will increase your yield (not mandatory).

Liquid manure is also a very good natural fertiliser. It is produced by your pigs if you have chosen to raise them without litter but on gratings instead. You spread it in your fields at a ratio of 15 m3 (15 000 litres) per hectare. A liquid manure spreader is needed. It will also increase your yield (not mandatory).

Phyto treatments (pesticides, herbicides) will protect your crops from diseases. By spraying at the right time, you'll get good results. Try and spray at the best possible time to get the best result (not mandatory).

Sunshine will vary from region to region. However, your crop needs a minimum of sunshine to reach a good ripening. On the contrary, too much sun will weaken your crop. Check carefully the forecast to achieve a successful harvest. If the meteorology is good you have a good chance of getting a good harvest. A gauge shows you the sun needed for each plot.

Pluviometry will also vary from region to region. However your crop requires a minimum amount of rain to reach a good ripening. On the contrary, too much rain will weaken your crop. Check the forecast carefully to achieve a successful harvest. If the meteorology is good you have a good chance of getting a good harvest. A gauge shows you the sun needed for each plot.

If, when harvest time comes, you haven't reached a full ripening (100%) or if you harvest a bit too late, your yied will be lessened. If, on the contrary, you're at the maximum ripening (100%) and you harvest at the right time, you will get a good yield.

There is also a quality attached to your harvest. The quality will give you an indication on your harvest.

- : Bad quality
- : Medium quality
- : Good quality

Depending on the quality level, a harvested crop will have a different value on a financial point of view but also on a nutritional point of view :

- Financially speaking, a good quality wheat for example will sell at a better price than a bad quality one.
- On the nutritional side, livestock fed with good quality food will gain more weight than those fed with bad quality.

Plot Status :

To help you manage your plots, diode indicators will show you if an action can be done. If the diode is green, the work can be done on the plot. On the contrary if the diode is red, no work can be done.

The different culture types : (for each region, check the yields in the table below)

Wheat :
- Sowing time : october and november
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 100 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : choice between different type of seeds

Barley :
- Sowing time : october and november
- Harvest time : june and july
- Average price : 105 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : choice between different type of seeds

Spring Barley :
- Sowing time : february and march
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 105 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : choice between different type of seeds

Oats :
- Sowing time : october and november
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 95 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : choice between different type of seeds

Spring Oats :
- Sowing time : february and march
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 95 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : choice between different type of seeds

Triticale :
- Sowing time : october and november
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 125 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : choice between different type of seeds

Corn grain :
- Sowing time : april and may
- Harvest time : october and november
- Average price : 110 euros/metric ton
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : aucune

Ensiled corn :
- Sowing time : april and may
- Harvest time : october and november
- Average price : 45 euros/metric ton
- Harvest with Silage Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 2 years
- Specifics : none

Sugarbeet :
- Sowing time : march and april
- Harvest time : october and november
- Average price : 120 euros/metric ton
- Harvest with Sugarbeet Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 4 years
- Specifics : none

Colza :
- Sowing time : august and september
- Harvest time : june and july
- Average price : 220 euros/metric ton
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 3 years
- Specifics : 4 kilos of seeds/hectare, used to make VBF

Sunflower :
- Sowing time : march and april
- Harvest time : august and september
- Average price : 230 euros/metric ton
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 3 years
- Specifics : none

Peas :
- Sowing time : february and march
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 120 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 3 years
- Specifics : no fertiliser, choice between different type of seeds

Faba bean :
- Sowing time : november and december
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 145 euros/metric ton
- Can make straw bales
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 3 years
- Specifics : no fertiliser, 220 kilos of seeds / hectare

Soybean :
- Sowing time : april and may
- Harvest time : september and october
- Average price : 165 euros/metric ton
- Harvest with Combine Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 3 years
- Specifics : no fertliser, 110 kilos of seeds / hectare

Specific cultures : (check tables below for yields in each region)

Flax :
- Sowing time : march and april
- Harvest time : july and august
- Average price : 1300 euros/metric ton
- It's compulsory to make flax bales
- Harvest with Flax Harvester and Turner Binder
- Cyclic rotation : 6 years
- Specifics : 120 kilos of seeds / hectare

Harvest is 3 staged. First of all you harvest, then you turn your flax to dry it and last you make bales to sell. Thus you need for the harvest a Flax Harvester, a Turner Binder, a Self Propelled Baler and something to load the bales. The whole harvest takes about 2 months (thanks to Deutz (a player) for his help).

Industrial hemp :
- Sowing time : may
- Harvest time : september
- Average price : 350 euros/metric ton (grain), 120 euros/metric ton (straw)
- Harvest with Combine Harvester and Mower
- Cyclic rotation : none
- Specifics : 50 kilos of seeds/hectare, no treatment

The harvest is a two-steps one. First step is the grain harvest with a combine harvester, the second one is mowing the straw with a mower. For the whole harvest you will need, a combine harvester, a mower, a rake and a round baler. Bales then can be sold only to the SimAgri Cooperative (later on to the Regional Agricutural Cooperatives as well), as such they are of no use in a farm.

Potatoes :
- Sowing time : april and may
- Harvest time : september and october
- Average price : 80 euros/metric ton
- Harvest with Potato Harvester
- Cyclic rotation : 4 years
- Specifics : 2,5 litres / hectare of weed killer for chemical weeding and 900 kilos of seeds / hectare

For the harvest you need a Potato Harvester. A month before harvesting you have to do a chemical weeding with a sprayer and a specific chemical.

Tobacco :
- Sowing time : march (under serre) and april and may in plot
- Harvest time : july to september
- Average price : 4500 euros/metric ton (hay bales)
- Cyclic rotation : 3 years
- Specifics : 2 hectares allowed per farm. Tobacco available in the farm's area.

Seeding in greenhouse then transplanting on the plot. Expensive investment and requires manual labor. For 1 hectare of tobacco, you will need : 35,000 seeds, 50 m² of glass green house, 200 expanded polystyrene trays, 50 m² of sowing containers and 100 m² of plastic sheet.

Grass :
- Sowing time : march, april, september, october
- Harvest time : all year long, ripening 100%
- Average price : 70 euros/metric ton (hay bales)
- Harvest with Mower, Hay Tedder
- Specifics : 35 kilos of seeds / hectare

Unlike other cultures, grass grows all year long. As soon as you sow a grass plot, it turns into a meadow. You can use meadows for your livestock to graze or to make hay. Once mowed (mower), tedded (hay tedder) and pressed (baler) you get hay bales. You can mow anytime of the year regardless of its ripening level. Grass do not grow in winter and no treatment is necessary.

If you see it fit, you can increase your grass growth and the hay yield. To do so, use a meadow harrow and/or spread fertiliser (250 kilos/hectare) or liquid manure (15 m3/hectare), you'll get more hay. The effect of this works is lessened during winter, thus you have to do it every year for a maximum growth and yield.

- Yields for wheat, barley, spring barley, oats, spring oats, triticale (0) top
Yields are given in ton/hectare. These figures represent the average yield that you will obtain. In most cases, if your culture is enhanced by fertilisers and phyto treatments, wih sufficient water and sunshine, you will reach yields way above those given in the following table. For organic cultures, yields will be lower (under development)

Region Wheat
R=2 years Barley
R=2 years Spring Barley
R=2 years Oats
R=2 years Spring Oats
R=2 years Triticale
R=2 years

FRANCE

Alsace 5.5 5.9 4.5 4.2 4 6.2

Aquitaine 5 4.8 4.2 3.8 3.7 4.5

Auvergne 4.2 4 3 3.3 3 4.9

Basse-Normandie 8.1 6.6 5.5 5.2 5 6.4

Bourgogne 4.9 5 4 3 2.8 5

Bretagne 6.9 6 5.5 4.1 4 6.3

Centre 5.5 4.4 6 4 3.9 5.3

Champagnes-Ardennes 7.4 6.4 6.7 5.5 5.2 6.5

Corse 1.8 1.5 1.2 1 1 3.5

Franche-Comté 4.8 4.5 3.7 3.3 3.2 5.4

Haute-Normandie 8.4 7.2 6.8 6.3 6 7.1

Ile-de-France 6.2 5.8 5.3 5 4.7 6.2

Languedoc-Roussillon 3.4 4.6 3.5 2 1.9 3.2

Limousin 4.1 4.6 3 3.3 3.2 5.1

Lorraine 5.2 5 4.5 2.9 2.8 6.2

Midi-Pyrénées 4 3.8 2.8 3.1 3 4.6

Nord 8.6 7.5 8 6.3 6.2 7.3

Pays de Loire 6.3 5.1 4 3.8 3.7 5.7

Picardie 7.7 6.9 6.6 6.5 6.2 6.9

Poitou-Charentes 6.3 5.6 5.1 4.4 4.2 5.3

Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d'Azur 2.7 3 0.9 1 1 3.7

Rhône-Alpes 5.3 5 4 3.6 3.5 4.9

BELGIUM

Wallonie 8.9 6.9 6 4.5 4.4 6

Flandre 9.1 6.7 6.2 4.6 4.4 6.2

SWITZERLAND

Suisse Romande 5.7 5.8 5 4.9 4.8 5.7

Suisse Alémanique 5.9 5.9 5.2 5.1 4.9 6

Suisse Italienne - 5.8 5.1 - - 5.7

R=2 years stands for 2 years cyclic rotation, meaning you can grow it every 2 years.

- Yields for grain corn, ensiled corn, sugar beets, colza, sunflower (0) top

Region Grain Corn
R=2 years Ensiled Corn
R=2 years Sugar Beets
R=4 years Colza
R=3 years Sunflower
R=3 years

FRANCE

Alsace 8.4 11.5 69.3 2.8 2.5

Aquitaine 8.1 11 - 2.4 2.2

Auvergne 6 7 57.2 2 2

Basse-Normandie 8.6 13.6 75.5 3.7 2

Bourgogne 5.9 8 46.1 2.6 2.4

Bretagne 6.8 11 - 2.8 2.5

Centre 8.6 12.4 78.1 3.1 2.6

Champagnes-Ardennes 6.4 10