Make liberal use of assistants - It costs roughly $1 of in-game cash per second when you have an assistant using your vehicles, but it saves you so much time it’s easily worth the price.

Stick with wheat and canola for a while, because harvesting everything else requires tools you won’t have yet.

Only sow wheat and canola to start - When you have a sowing machine attached to your tractor you can tap on the seed button (it’s the one highlighted in blue) to switch seeds.

Definitely do that, because having a second machine around to cultivate, sow, and haul will be extremely useful.

Buy a second tractor before you buy anything else - If you harvest your first field and sell off as much of your starting grains as you can, you should have more than enough to buy yourself a second tractor.

Sell all of it for quite a bit more starting cash.

Sell all your starter grains - Every time you begin a new game you’ll start with 5’000 Wheat, Canola, Corn, Sugarbeet, and Potato.

You can also save time by hiring an assistant to drive your harvester, having them harvest your first wheat field, and manually cultivating the second field yourself.

Cultivating is also a good idea - You can use your tractor to cultivate your fields and make them ready for sowing.

It’s very important that you start harvesting that wheat right away, otherwise you run the risk of it going bad.

Start harvesting immediately - You’ll have two fields of your own right away - one that’s full of wheat and ready to harvest, and another that needs to be cultivated.

Then get familiar with your tools - Your harvester is pretty easy to figure out from the start (it’s the big yellow thing and it already has the appropriate header attached) but you also have one tractor and a few things that can attach to the back of it - a cultivator (the flat-looking green thing), a sowing machine (the red thing), and a tipper (the green bin on wheels).

From bottom-left to bottom-right: the steering slider, switch vehicles, detach tools, activate tools, hire assistant, honk the horn, and throttle (i.e.

Get familiar with the controls - There’s no real tutorial to speak of, so you’ll want to learn what the button icons mean as soon as possible.

That’s why we’ve put together some helpful tips and tricks to get your farm going.

That’s fantastic, but where do you go from here? As peculiarly entertaining as it may be to meticulously guide heavy machinery around a field or two, it can be a little tricky to figure out what to do when you get behind the wheel for the first time.

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