Mowing grass | Further steps Farming Simulator 2013 Guide

This mower is considerably cheap, but it takes a long time to finish the job.

It's a very profitable business. A few minutes of mowing can earn you as much as around 4 000 $ - 5 000 $. You will however need a mower. You can buy a AMAZONE Profihopper for 3 500 $.

This mower is unfortunately very slow, which can be problematic when moving from one mission location to another.

While the mowing width can be ignored (you have rather small fields to mow and they don't take more than 5 minutes), the real problem is the maximum speed of this vehicle - 11 km/h.

This mower will let you complete the mission in more or less a minute!

That's why you should consider a higher model attachable to a tractor - Pottinger Eurocat 315H. Despite a 2.5x higher price, it will let you move between missions considerably fast. The most important thing is that it can be used with the basic tractor model. Just don't lift it up to transport mode - drive slowly in the lower position.

It's best to mow while driving in a clockwise manner.

On the field which you have to mow, keep driving in a clockwise manner. Thanks to this mower, a field which gives you 6-7 minutes can be finished in just above 1 minute! This way you can earn a significant amount of money in very little time. You should also remember about the bonuses for completing the mission fast! Thanks to it one minute of work can earn you even over 7 000 $. It's worth to mention that the mission apply to two places:

1. the camping site in the north-east corner of the map;

2. the golf course in the south-east corner of the map.

The profitability is as follows:

• Investment: the optimal one is 8 300 $ for the Pottinger Eurocat 315H (without the cost of a tractor, as you should have one);
• Return on investment: 2 missions (which should take 1-2 days);
• Conclusion: at the beginning of the game (but not only) completing the mowing missions is a VERY profitable activity.

Later on it's worth changing the tractor to a better one.

Later on in the game, despite developing your farm, you can still use these missions to earn money. It's worth buying the SAME Argon3 75 tractor for 57 000 $ and a weight for 250 $ to operate the mower. Further on, in order to avoid driving between the camping site and golf course, you can have two mowing sets: the SAME Argon3 75 tractor + a weight + the Pottinger Eurocat 315H mower. Have one ready set stationed by the camping site and one by the gold course.

Such an investment, despite what it might seem, will return very soon as long as you set new missions to appear every 2 minutes and will reject any transport mission, focusing only on mowing.