Cotton Farming and Cotton Bailing
Cotton Farming is the long-haul achievement in the game. You have to cultivate Cotton Flowers, harvest them, and then finally sell 40 self-produced cotton bales in one sitting. Technically, this is cumulative, but some people have problems with this if not done in one sitting! The good thing is that you can work on many achievements at the same time if you like.
I recommend working on your Elmcreek save file (and I hope you make some money beforehand).
For the best outcome, you need field 68. It is on the lower left side and it is the biggest/largest on the map with around 10 hectares. To speed up the process, if you can afford it, buy 3 harvesters, 2 cultivators, 2 Planters/Fertilizers, and finally 1 Tractor with a Cotton-Trailer.
You need a Cotton Harvester. The game has two harvesters (I tried mods but that equipment did not work very well). The recommendation is the John Deere CP690 for 847,000 each. The Deere pushes round bales out, and your biggest trailer can hold 3 of them. The next step is Large Tractors, any one will fit. Just choose whatever looks best for you. My recommendation is JCB Fastrac 8330 for 289,000 each. It is the fastest in the game, but in fact, you can also use any other setup that suits best for you. You need a minimum of 3. I recommend 5. The next step is the Tools that you need.
At first, you have to prepare the cultivation of fields. This has to be done with Harrows. I recommend the Case Speed-Tiller 475. It is the largest one in the game and also works even better than MODs. Take a minimum of 1 (recommendation 2). After harrowing the field, you have to seed and fertilize the fields. The tool for this is the Kuhn MAXIMA 3 TIL. This is a 2-in-one tool. While you are still working on harrowing, you can start the Kuhn directly behind the Case after one or 2 finished rows to seed and fertilize as fast as possible. Kind of back to back. Before using the Kuhn MAXIMA 3 TIL you have to fill in some Seeds and some Fertilizers. Objects, Big bag Pallets, 1 Pack of Solid Fertilizer, and 1 pack of Seeds. To fill your tools, hook up the Kuhn on one of your Tractors. Drive back or sideways to the packs and hit "refill".
Last but not least you need a Cotton Trailer. The McCormack Cotton Tag Trailer is the only useful item for you. So get one of these.
Now bring all your material near field 68.
Now it's "real" farming time.
To farm your fields, you have to make your moves in this order:
- Harrowing the field.
- Fertilize and seed the field.
- Wait for the crops to grow. For Cotton, it is eight months of in-game time!
- Start your Cotton Harvester and cut down your growings.
Just drive your tool onto whichever corner of the field you like and hit to hire an AI-Worker. This automates the whole process for you and cumulates also for your achievements, while you work on other stuff (e. g. Grass Bailing).
After Harrowing, Fertilizing, and Seeding you have to wait for your crops to grow. Up next, is the hard part. To take as little time as possible, you have to WATCH your AI-Workers while Harvesting the Cotton or cut the Cotton by yourself. As soon as the Harvester got 2500 liters of Cotton, he starts the first of three steps of bailing the Cotton. Every step costs 2500 liters, but you don't need the full 7500 liters of Cotton for your bail to finish. You only need the first 2500 liters.
As soon as the first step in Bailing begins, you can stop the Harvester (or your AI-Worker by hitting ). Just press
+
to press the "unfinished" bale out, and then again
to drop the bale onto the field. Then you can move the bales to any other field (I used 66) to collect all the 40 bales you need.
You have to fully cut field 68 up to two and a half times for the 40 bales. This takes a lot of time, around 5 to 10 hours because the Cotton harvester is ridiculously slow.
Now you piled up the 40 bales? Go and save your game. Disable Autosave for this process so that nothing goes wrong here. The next step is selling the bales. You do this by buying Spinning Mills. Found under Others, Construction, Production, Factories, Spinnery 60,000 each. Buy one of these, unload 3 bales, sell, rebuy, and unload again 3 bales. Just keep your tracker in mind and sell all 40 bales in one session. The worst and longest achievement in the game is done.
While working on the cotton achievement, you also get the achievements for Cultivating, Sowing, Fertilizing, and Harvesting a cumulative total of 1 hectare of field.
and you get your first part forCultivating,Sowing,Fertilizing,and Harvesting a cumulative total of 100 hectares of any fields on a single save file.
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