The dairy industry in Farming Simulator 25 is one of the most profitable and mechanically intense industries.

The factory allows you to produce a whole range of dairy products - bottled milk, chocolate and cheese. To get started, you need to choose a suitable building, equip it with the right resources and competently manage the production process. This is the subject of this guide.

How to buy and place a dairy

In the base game, three variants of a dairy farm are available. Find them in the construction menu, in the factories section. There are two full-sized factories and one compact one. The main difference between the small farm is the productivity. It processes resources 10 times slower than its larger counterparts.

To buy production on the map, you just need to find the wrench icon, approach it and activate the interaction. If you're playing on console, open the help window in the settings to find out the right button.



You can also place the factory manually through the building mode.

If you sell the building right after setting it up, you will get your money back in full. But if you exit the construction mode and then try to sell the factory, you will lose up to 50% of the value, and repeated sales will reduce this amount even more.

What you need to start production

Starting a dairy requires loading the necessary ingredients into the building. The main inputs are cow's milk, goat's milk, buffalo milk and sugar. Each of these can be loaded manually or with transportation equipment.

Pallets of goat milk, sugar and other solid resources can be moved to the building and placed in a dedicated unloading area marked with an “unloading” icon. Liquids such as cow and buffalo milk are delivered by tankers. You just need to drive up to the unloading zone and start unloading.

Each production facility has its own receiving point, so it's important to target a specific plant model.

If you are using a compact farm, all entrances are usually at the front of the building. Full-size facilities may have their intake points on the back or side. You can also use cheats or mods, such as “superpower” to move pallets manually, especially in the single player PC game. However, in the standard version of the game without mods, this will require specialized machinery.

Production management: menus, recipes and settings

Once you have loaded the necessary resources, you can move on to managing the production process.

You can access the menu in three ways:

     1. Approach the building and activate the wrench icon;

     2. Select an object on the map;

     3. open the “Production Points” tab in the general game menu.

Inside the menu, you will see a list of available recipes. The Dairy Farm is one of the most productive factories in the game. It can produce bottled milk (cow, goat, buffalo), regular butter, butter made from goat and buffalo milk, regular cheese, goat cheese, buffalo mozzarella, and chocolate (when sugar is added).

Each recipe uses certain resources and has its own “cycles per month” figure - how many times the recipe will be made in a month. This figure scales with the length of the month in the game.

If you're playing with a one-day month, the cycle will be executed daily in full. The cost per month of running a recipe and the amounts of incoming and outgoing products are also displayed.

Additionally, you can choose how you want to store the finished product: “Storage” (the goods are accumulated until the warehouse is filled), ‘Sale’ (automatic realization with a commission of 20-40%) or “Distribution” (transfer to another production without costs).

Keep in mind that changing the output mode on one type of product (e.g. butter) will affect all recipes where it is produced.

Where finished goods appear and how to use them

As soon as the plant starts operating, pallets of finished goods start appearing on the premises. Small farms have an unloading area right at the entrance, while larger ones have an unloading area at the back or side of the building.

Depending on the recipes activated, you will get a variety of products:

• goat milk bottles;
• buffalo milk bottles;
• cow's milk bottles;
• butter;
• cheeses of different types;
• chocolate;
• mozzarella.

These products can either be sold or used in other production chains, such as the bakery. Sales are made at any outlets on the map that accept the appropriate product type. Prices per pallet depend on the market situation and the complexity of the economy in your game.

To maximize profits, it is recommended to sell manually during periods of maximum demand.

If you want to automate the process of moving pallets, you need to master working with the appropriate machinery.

Loaders, forklifts, forklifts, front loaders, telehandlers and mini loaders are available in the game. Each of them corresponds to a different type of fork. When choosing, consider the power and compatibility with the machinery.

Make sure the tractor has front loader support, otherwise you will have to buy separate machines.

Profitability of Dairy Production

Understanding the economics of a dairy farm is the foundation of its efficient operation. Each production recipe requires a certain amount of resources and yields a specific amount of finished product that can be sold or used in other chains.

To determine which products are more profitable to produce, it is necessary to evaluate the cost-to-income ratio for each production cycle.

Some products with the same end result can yield completely different profits - it all depends on the raw materials. For example, producing butter from different types of milk has a similar result, but the profit can differ by many times. Similarly, two recipes that generate similar monthly revenues may require different amounts of resources.

The more processes you have running at the same time, the slower each one will run. If you run many recipes at once, each one will run at a minimum. Therefore, it's more efficient to choose one or two of the most profitable products and focus power on them.

That's it for this article. The information for writing this article, as well as the screenshots used in it are taken from a video from the YouTube channel @FarmerCop. Below you can watch a video guide where everything is explained in more detail.