Grass and Hay

Learn how to cultivate, mow, and collect grass and hay in Supermarket Simulator. This guide covers equipment, techniques, and making money with this unique crop.

Alright, let's talk about grass and hay in Supermarket Simulator. It's a bit different from your usual crops, but it can be a solid way to make some extra cash. Think of it as a special project for your farm!

The basic idea is similar to planting other crops: you pick a field, get it ready, and plant the grass seed. You'll know it's ready to go when you see little flowers popping up in the field. That's your cue!

Here's what you'll need to do:

1. Head to the shop and grab a mower and a forage wagon.
2. Get them back to your farm and attach the mower to your tractor.
3. Drive out to your grass field, lower the mower, and drive around to cut all the grass.
4. Once that's done, head back to the farm. Switch from the mower to the forage wagon.
5. Go back to the field, turn on the forage wagon, and drive around to collect the cut grass. You'll see little green bits – that's what you're collecting.
6. When the wagon is full or you've collected everything, drive back to your farm. You'll need to back the wagon into the grass pit, which is located near the silos on the south side of your farm.
7. When you see the icon pop up, you can dump the grass. You'll get paid for it! Keep doing this until all the grass is collected and dumped.

Pro Tip: To make collecting the grass easier, you might want to buy a rotor windrower. Hook this up after mowing and drive around the field in straight lines. It'll rake the cut grass into neat rows (windrows), making it much faster and simpler to pick up with the forage wagon.

Now, here's the really cool part about grass: you don't need to cultivate and re-seed after mowing! It actually regrows on its own after a while. This means you can mow it multiple times. It's pretty straightforward money, not as much as growing regular crops, but definitely easy.

Want to make even more money? You can turn that grass into hay. Here's how:

1. Buy a rotor tedder from the shop.
2. Hook it up and use it on the grass right after you've mowed it.
3. The tedder flips the grass over, helping it to dry out. This process essentially turns your grass into hay.

Hay is worth more than regular grass, especially if you press it into bales. However, you can also just collect it with the forage wagon like you did with the grass. Speaking of bales...