Cow Pastures/Farming Simulator 19
A Cow Pasture is a type of Animal Pen in Farming Simulator 19. It is one of 5 different types of Animal Pens available in the base game. The Cow Pasture allows you to raise Cows and produce Milk, along with Slurry and Manure as optional by-products.
Unlike in previous games, Cow Pastures must be purchased and placed manually on the map within an owned Parcel. You may place more than one Cow Pasture. Each Pasture has a hard limit on the number of Cows it can hold. Cow Pastures are the largest and most expensive of all Animal Pens.
Cow Pastures are very complex structures, with no fewer than 8 different drop-off/pick-up areas. Cows themselves must be purchased separately, and either sent straight to the Pasture (for a fee) or brought there by Animal Transport (for free).
A Cow Pasture can hold a large amount of Milk, Slurry and Manure (approx. 800,000 liters of each). Capacities for input materials (Water, Straw, Grass, Hay, Silage and TMR) depend entirely on the number of cows housed within the pasture at any given time.
Cows can breed inside a Pasture over time, so long as they are supplied with the proper materials and so long as there is room in the Pasture for more cows. They can then be taken to be sold at the Animal Dealer for a profit.
Farming Simulator 19 offers two different models of Cow Pastures by default. They differ in price, physical size, and the number of Cows they can hold.
List of Cow Pastures
Below is a list of all Cow Pasture models in the base game. They can be found in the "Placeables" category, under the "Animal Pens" sub-category.
| Name | Price | Maintenance Cost per Day | Capacity | Required Space (Meters) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Width | Length | ||||
| Lizard Cow Pasture | 100,000 | 100 |  50
|
36 | 36 |
| Lizard Large Cow Pasture | 300,000 | 300 | 200
|
36 | 36 |
Placement
Maps in Farming Simulator 19 do not contain any Animal Pens by default. Instead, players must purchase and place their own Animal Pens in order to engage in Animal Husbandry work of any kind.
To place a Cow Pasture, the player must first purchase a Parcel of land large enough to contain one, and then gather enough money to purchase a Cow Pasture (see prev. chapter). Cow Pastures can be purchased through the Placeables category at the Store, under the "Animal Pens" sub-category.
You may place a Cow Pasture on any surface that does not contain any solid object, including houses, permanent roads, other Placeables, trees, vehicles, and so on (painted gravel and concrete surfaces do not count as actual roads). You can place a Cow Pasture on a field, but this will destroy the part of the field that's under the Cow Pasture. You may place the Cow Pasture on uneven ground, and this will flatten the area required for the Pasture for an extra charge. If the ground is very uneven, the game may refuse to allow placing the Cow Pasture altogether, in which case you may need to perform some manual Landscaping first to make the area flatter.
Pay attention to the rotation of the Cow Pasture, as you will need room to access each of the eight pick-up/drop-off points. You can see them while placing the structure, but cannot see which point is which; Make sure to save the game before placing the pen so you can reload it if you've made a mistake.
You may place multiple Cow Pastures on the map, if you can afford them. Note that each Cow Pasture costs a small amount of money per day, deducted at midnight.
Purchasing Cows
- Main article: Animal Dealer (Farming Simulator 19)
Before a Cow Pasture can do anything, you must first place at least one Cow inside the pasture.
You may purchase new Cows from the Animal Dealer for $2500 per Cow. There are 8 different models of Cows in the base game, though they are almost entirely identical in function. Note however that there is a benefit to purchasing only cows of the same exact model for each Cow Pasture you own.
Cows can be transferred automatically from the Animal Dealer to the selected Pasture for a fee of $200 per Cow. Alternatively, you can bring an Animal Transport to the Animal Dealer to pick up cows yourself and avoid the fee; You will then need to drop them off at the appropriate drop-off area at the Pasture.
If you already own a Cow Pasture, you can move cows from one Pasture to another using an Animal Transport.
Input Materials
A Cow Pasture can be filled with up to six different kinds of materials in order to start producing. There are three different drop-off points, each accepting only certain materials.
The capacity for each material at the Cow Pasture is determined entirely by the number of Cows currently living inside that pasture. As cows are added or removed (including by natural breeding), capacity will increase or decrease respectively.
The capacity for each material is exactly equal to the amount consumed by a Cow over 10 days (240 hours), multiplied by the number of cows living in the Pasture.
| Material | Capacity per Cow (liters) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Water |
800 | Produces Slurry. Required to produce Milk and to breed cows. |
 Straw |
950 | Produces Manure. Increases Productivity value by 10%, but only if Water and at least one type of food are also present. |
 Grass |
3500 | One of four options required to produce Milk and breed cows. Sets base Productivity at 20% when present. |
 Hay |
3500* | One of four options required to produce Milk and breed cows. Shares its capacity with Silage, and is fully interchangeable with it. Sets base Productivity at 60% when present. |
 Silage |
3500* | One of four options required to produce Milk and breed cows. Shares its capacity with Hay, and is fully interchangeable with it. Sets base Productivity at 60% when present. |
 Total Mixed Ration |
3500 | One of four options required to produce Milk and breed cows. Sets base Productivity at 80% when present. |
- (*) Hay and Silage share the same storage tank. You can have fit only 3500 liters per cow of either material or any mixture of both.
Products
Every 15 minutes of in-game time, the game checks each Cow Pasture to see whether it has the required input materials to produce any product. If so, the game will subtract input materials as appropriate, and place the products in its internal or external storage tanks, as appropriate.
Slurry
If any Water is available, each cow consumes 80 liters of water and produces 250 liters of Slurry per day.
Slurry collects into an underground tank with a capacity of 800,000 liters. It can be removed using a Slurry Tanker or Slurry Spreader by parking the machine next to the tank's opening and hitting the "Refill" button 
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Manure
If any Straw is available, each cow consumes 90 liters of straw and produces 200 liters of Manure per day.
Manure collects outside the Cow Pasture, in a Heap within an open-air bunker with a capacity of 800,000 liters. You can use a Loader or a Conveyor Belt to put it into a Tipper or Manure Spreader as required.
Milk
If any Water is available, along with any of the four food types accepted by a Cow Pasture, each cow consumes 350 of the best available food per day, and produces a certain amount of Milk.
The amount of Milk created by each Cow depends on a value called "Productivity". This value is tracked for each Cow Pasture and reflects what materials are available to the Cows and how clean the feeding area is (more on this below).
First, the game calculates a "baseline" Productivity value depending on the best type of food present in the Pasture:
| Best Food Available | Productivity |
|---|---|
| Grass | 20% |
| Hay or Silage | 60% |
| Total Mixed Ration | 80% |
(Note: Only the best food will be consumed)
If any amount of Straw is also available, Productivity is increased by a further 10%.
Finally, productivity is increased by the current Cleanliness value of the Cow Pasture divided by 10.
The amount of Milk produced per Cow per day is equal to 150 liters x Productivity. Therefore, 150 liters is the amount produced by each cow each day when fed with Total Mixed Ration, provided with Straw, and kept absolutely clean.
Milk accumulates in an internal storage tank at the Cow Pasture with a capacity of 800,000 liters. It can be removed by placing a suitable Water Tanker in the marked area and filling it up Refill MachineDefault Buttons: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/d/dd/FS17_Logo_PC.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234847 Rhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/6/6c/FS17_Logo_XBOX.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234910 ??https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/e/e3/FS17_Logo_PS4.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170828002413 ??.
Cleanliness
Cleanliness is an important value that increases Milk production speed, but degrades over time if not addressed. It ranges from 0% to 100%, and is tracked separately for each Cow Pasture.
So long as there is food (of any kind) inside the Cow Pasture, 1/5 of the food consumed by Cows is ejected onto the ground in front of the feeding trough, in the form of small Heaps. It can then be picked up and dumped back into the Cow Pasture in order to keep it clean.
This effect is not just cosmetic; The game keeps track of the current Cleanliness value of the pasture's feeding area (as a percentage), divides it by 10, and adds the result to the Productivity rating for that Pasture. Thus, 100% Cleanliness increases Productivity by 10%, which in turn increases both Milk production and Breeding rate. This assumes the cows are provided with both food and water, otherwise Productivity will remain at 0% regardless of Cleanliness.
If the ejected food is not picked up at all, it will take approximately 48 hours until 0% cleanliness is reached. At that point, no more food will be ejected until some of it has been cleaned up.
Ejected food can be picked up at any time by a Loader or any similar machinery and dumped right back into the feeding trough. Note that you can simply dump the food right back on the ground where you picked it up, since this area counts as a dumping zone for food.
In Cow Pastures, the ejected food is of the same type that was last consumed by the Cows - except in the case of Hay which is ejected as Silage. In fact, this is a way to turn small quantities of Hay into Silage for free, which can then be used to create Total Mixed Ration to improve the cows' Productivity.
Breeding and Selling Cows
If a Pasture is provided with both Water and any type of food, and contains at least one cow, the cows in that Pasture will begin to breed, increasing their numbers automatically over time.
The rate at which cows multiply depends on the number of cows living in the Pasture, as well as the current Productivity rating. The more cows there are, the faster they'll multiply. Providing cows with high-quality food like Total Mixed Ration as well as Straw bedding and keeping their feeding area clean (as explained in previous chapters above) will achieve the highest possible breeding rate per cow.
By default, a single Cow at 100% Productivity rating will multiply after 1200 hours. 10 cows under the same conditions will multiply after 120 hours. Productivity is linked exponentially to breeding rate, so low productivity has a huge impact on breeding time, potentially reducing it as low as 6000 hours for a single cow to breed.
Cows will stop breeding if water or food runs out, or if there is no more room at the Pasture for more cows.
Note: Each breed of cow as well as each color of cow is treated as a separate entity for purposes of breeding. This means that it is advisable to keep only one breed and color of cow in each Pasture. This is explained in detail in the article on Cows.
Both store-bought and farm-bred Cows can be sold for $2000 each. You can sell Cows directly by standing on the marked area outside the cow shed and hitting the "Animal Dialog" button Open Animal DialogDefault Buttons: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/d/dd/FS17_Logo_PC.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234847 Rhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/6/6c/FS17_Logo_XBOX.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234910 ??https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/e/e3/FS17_Logo_PS4.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170828002413 ??. Selling cows this way incurs a $200 Transport Fee per cow. You can avoid the fee entirely by opening the dialogue while towing an Animal Transport, moving the cows into the transport, and taking them to the Animal Dealer to be sold.
Overall, Cows breed at the lowest rate among all animals. However their breeding rate will speed up over time, and should eventually provide a respectable profit alongside your profits from selling Milk. Nevertheless, it is often better to fill your Cow Pasture with cows to improve Milk production rates to the maximum, before considering selling any of those cows.
Selling the Pen
You may sell a Cow Pasture for exactly half its purchase price through the Garage menu.
A Cow Pasture can only be sold if it currently contains no Cows. You can sell off the Cows (see prev. chapter) at any time to facilitate this.
Note that you will not be reimbursed for any materials left inside the pasture when it is sold.