FAQ’s

Q – How can I Get FarmCash?
A – You can get 1 FarmCash a level, or by buying it with Real American Dollars

Q – What is the best Seed to plant for money?
A – See the money section, and/or the “Best Crop in Money/Hour” Section

Q – I found an Error in your Guide. What do i Do?
A – Please post in the Comments Section

Q – How much fuel do i get and do i get more for more machinery?
A – You have 150 fuel when you buy a tractor. You cannot get a larger tank by buying more machinery or more fuel. The only way to get more fuel is by waiting – or buying it with farmcash

Q – A gold coin falls on me while im harvesting and i cannot pick it up. What is it?
A – It simply gives you 100 Coins!

Any more Questions, please Post in the Comments

Try to Log on Every Day to get a prize from the Raffle!
Estimating the time the plants should be done is good and lets you then harvest and plough efficiently
Try and plant so all plants collide at 1 Big harvest time, giving max Exp and Money!
Doing achievements award money and Exp. Complete them for more!
For faster ways to Plow and plant, check the label "Fast plowing and Harvesting"
Don’t spend you FV dollars on decorations.
Buy Special need seeds for wherever if you have the FV dollars.

Gifting to people is a good way to get them back. You might want to keep a list of you who gift to and who gifts back. Sometimes requesting specific gifts in your status can get a nice flood. Normally – If I get trees, i plant them. If i get animals i sell them for the extra money boost (Small as it may be). You should always try and gift the highest thing you can since they almost always give the best return (Unless someone requests one)

Gifts are also randomly received from doing achievements, and although (Like regular gifts) you do not receive Exp from planting/placing them, they can be sold. Sometimes its best to keep them for future Achievements.

In January Collections were realsed, with the aim of getting people to do a variert around their farm and others. When you have found all a collection, You may cash it for;

- 250Exp
- 5,000 Coins
- 5 Tanks of Fuel

The money and Exp are a nice little bonus, however if you are experienced enought – its not that much. However the fuel is a welcome bonus. The fuel will be used to plow/sow/harvest and make the same amount of exp and cash all over again!

If you see that someone has completed a collection on your Facebook feed – Be sure to click the “get” button – because you get a random items from the collection they cashed! So you could get one of the rare ones and save lots of time!

This feature is Fantastic for both money and Exp. Although it can cost a rather amount in both Coins and Time to complete some of the longer achievements, however most a relatively easy and reward handsomely with Exp, Coins and a Random Gift.

All of the yellow ribbons are very easy to achieve, and you will get awarded with quite a few ribbons the first time you log into them! Then, you will want to advance to the white, red and blue ribbons in some (Getting more Exp and Gold, and more Free items!)

You may think that spending lots of cash on getting the Architect ribbon (for example) is a waste. But these balance out again when you get the cream of the crop, or one of the variety ribbons as you will get the money with them.

Good and Easy achievements to receive are:

• Local Celebrity
  • Get this by requesting neighbours.
• High Roller
  • This is best got by planting the highest paying crops. See the appropriate section for which!
• A Pretty Penny
  • Spend.
• Cream of the Crop
  • Well – You basically get this purely by harvesting!
• Architect
  • Build, Its a nice easy one to get. Build something cheap and sell after you get the blue!
• Green Thumbs
  • Variety!
• Tree Hugger
  • Variety!
• Noah’s Ark
  • Variety!
• Not spoiler, Gifted!
  • This one sorta goes without saying! Ask!

Animals are a pain. They take up space and they do not give very much money daily. A Single apple tree is better than 2/3 of the buy-able animals, and draws with the last. Sheep cost 700 coins. In theory, you can buy 2 apple trees and then gain twice as much as you would from 1 sheep! Trees are much better than sheep – it appears.

However, if you find the animals or they are gifted – you may as well! I would suggest not letting them wander…

Also, helping animals that wander onto your farm can give you a small amount of money. But it is up to you.

Strawberries/Raspberries/Blackberries/Blueberries = 0.5 Exp/Hour
Aloe Vera/Ghost Chilli = 0.3 Exp/Hour
Tomatoes/Sugar Cane/Pumpkin = 0.25 Exp/Hour
Green tea/Cranberries/Acorn Squash = 0.2 Exp/hour
Aspragus = 0.18 Exp/Hour
Peas = 0.17 Exp/Hour
Onions/Rice/Carrots = 0.16 Exp/Hour
Sunflowers/Soybeans/Peppers/Lillies/Red Tulips/Grapes = 0.13 Exp/Hour
Coffee/PattyPan Squash = 0.12 Exp/Hour
Yellow Bells/Pineapples/Eggplant/Squash/Cabbage/Broccoli/Pink Roses/Lavander/Daffodils = 0.06 Exp/Hour
Wheat/Red Wheat/Potatoes/Corn/Cotton = 0.04 Exp/Hour
Watermelon/Yellow Melon/Artichokes = 0.03 Exp/Hour

seed-coins-time to yield-xp gained-selling price-profitper patch-profit for hour
strawberry - 10 Coins – 4 Hours – 1Exp – 35 – 10 Coins – 2.5 Coins/Hour
Egg plant – 25 Coins – 2 Days – 2Exp – 88 – 48 Coins – 1.04 Coins/Hour
wheat - 35 Coins – 3 Days – 2Exp – 115 – 65 Coins – 0.94 Coins/Hour
Soya beans- 15 Coins – 1 Day – 2Exp – 63 – 33 Coins – 1.434 Coins/Hour
Squash – 40 Coins – 2 Days – 2Exp – 121 – 66 Coins – 1.434 Coins/Hour
Pumpkins - 30 Coins – 8 hours – 1Exp – 68 – 23 Coins – 2.875 Coins/Hour
Artichokes- 70 Coins – 4 Days – 2Exp – 204 – 119 Coins – 1.29 Coins/Hour
Rice - 45 Coins – 12 Hours – 1Exp – 96 – 36 Coins – 3 Coins/Hour
Raspberries - 20 Coins – 2 Hours – 0Exp – 46 – 11 Coins – 5.5 Coins/Hour
Daffdoils - 60 Coins – 2 Days – 2Exp – 135 Coins – 60 Coins – 1.30 Coins/Hour
Cotton -75 Coins – 3 Days – 2Exp – 207 – 117 Coins – 1.695 Coins/Hour
cranberries -55 Coins – 10 Hours – 1Exp – 98 – 28 Coins – 2.8 Coins/Hour
yellow bell – 75 Coins – 2 Days – 2Exp – 198 – 108 Coins – 2.34 Coins/Hour
peppers -70 Coins – 1 Day – 2Exp – 162 – 77 Coins – 3.34 Coins/Hour
Morning glory - 60 Coins – 12 Hours – 1Exp – 123 – 48 Coins – 4 Coins/Hour
aloe vera -50Coins – 6 Hours – 1Exp – 85 – 20 Coins – 3.3 Coins/Hour
Pine apples -95 Coins- 2 Days – 2Exp – 242 – 132 Coins – 2.86 Coins/Hour
Red tulips -75 Coins – 1 Day – 2Exp - 159 – 69 Coins - 3 Coins/Hour
Pattypan squash -5 Coins – 16 Hours – 1Exp – 160 – 80 Coins – 5 Coins/Hour
Blue berries - 50Coins – 4 Hours – 1Exp – 91 – 26 Coins – 6.5 Coins/Hour
Water mellons -130 Coins – 4 days – 2Exp - 348 – 203 Coins – 2.2 Coins
Grapes - 85 coins -1 Day – 2Exp – 270 – 170 Coins – 7.39 Coins/Hour
Tomato - 100 Coins – 8 Hours – 1Exp – 173 – 58 Coins – 7.25 Coins/Hour
Pink roses -120 coins – 2 Days – 2Exp - 254 – 119 Coins - 2.58 Coins/Hour
Potatoes - 135 Coins – 3 Days – 2Exp – 345 – 195 Coins – 2.82 Coins/Hour
Carrots -110 Coins – 12 Hours – 1Exp – 200 – 75 Coins – 6.25 Coins/Hour
Coffee - 120 Coins – 16 Hours – 1Exp - 243 – 108 Coins – 6.75 Coins/Hour
Corn - 150 Coins – 3 Days – 2Exp – 380 – 215 Coins – 3.12 Coins/Hour
Sun flowers - 135 Coins – 1 Day – 2Exp – 315 – 165 Coins – 7.17 Coins/Hour

You can plow, seed, and harvest one plot at a time by default; however, if you purchase farm equipment you can then do each 4 at a time. The only draw back is they require fuel. Your allotted only a maximum amount of fuel. Currently that amount is 150. This means you can plow 150 squares or seed 150 squares or harvest 150 squares. Your fuel is then replenished at the rate 1 per 2 minutes.

Each piece of equipment costs 30,000 coins.

You can buy the Tractor(plows) at level 12 it comes in 2 colors red and pink.

You can buy the Harvester at level 13.

You can buy the Seeder at level 14.

Recently to help consolidate their properties zynga as added crossover items. 3 of these are farm equipment. The tractor, Havester, and Seeder can do 9 square with each click(3X3 area). To get access to these you have to reach a certain level in mafia wars

Flowers in Farmville are just like any other crop. You sell them, gain XP for growing them and can master them by growing enough of them. But in addition while harvesting there is a chance that you will pick a perfect bunch. If you have a Garden Shed that perfect bunch will be available to use as decorations for your Farm(They last 14 days after you use them not from the point at which you find them.). You can also choose to share them with your friends. You set how many you want to share and then post a note to your news feed. Anybody who clicks on it will get an arrangement for their farm. The Garden Shed can be purchased from the store. You can only have a single Garden shed which has a store amount of 30 bunches. These bunches can be any mix of available flowers but you can only store 30

If you visit a neighbor or friends farm you are given the option to help out around the farm. This can be scaring off pets or raking leaves or many other things. If you do this you will be rewarded with some coins and XP. IF that person has crops which are still growing(IE can't be ready to harvest yet.) you will be given the option of fertilizing up to 5 crops. By doing so their crops will grow bigger than normal and they will also get XP when they harvest them. You'll get additional points towards a ribbon for fertilizing.

For harvesting you can simply use the multi-tool and click on each square which is ready to harvest. You can also by the Harvester which can harvest 4 squares at a time.

You can also use the multi-tool to harvest individual animals and trees.

A milk barn is available which you can add up to 20 cows. You can click on this single barn and harvest all 20 cows at once.

A chicken coop is available which allows you to keep 20 chickens. You can click on this single coop and harvest all 20 chickens at once.

You can either chose the multi-tool and click on any piece of plowed land which will then pop up the market where you will need to select the type of seed you want to plant. Then it will plant that type of seed on that open plowed area. Once you do this you can then keep clicking on plowed areas and planting the same type of seed.

You can also start planting by clicking on the marketplace and then selecting a type of seeds. Then clicking on any open piece of plowed land.

It's very important to choose which type of seed you want to plant by your ability to get back in time to harvest it. Just because you can make the most money early on by doing strawberries doesn't mean you will. Strawberries have to be picked every 4 hours. If you fail to get back to them before they go bad you'll be out the money for plowing and the seeds.

Plowing gains 1 XP regardless of what you plant any unused piece of ground can be used.

Unlike farm town your neighbors and friends cannot help you plow.

Using a tractor allows you to plow larger swathes of land. However they require fuel and fuel can only be purchased with cash not coins or you can wait for it to refill. It refills at the rate of one per 2 minutes. Each fuel unit allows you to do one thing to one square of grown.(Plow, Harvest, or Seed)

If you build a fence around yourself your character won't walk to the different squares and will plow much quicker. But a better tip is to watch where your character pops up on the screen. At that point put 4 hay bales around him/her. This will make it so your character can't move. This cuts down on the time spent walking from one square to the next.