After six months of working on this map on and off, I am proud to release my edit of Mercer County. This map has a major focus on small to medium scale dairy farming, with a plethora of new features to shift the game’s focus from cash crop to milk production. The original map was created by MRG Mapping, and is based on an area near Chickasaw, Ohio.
FEATURES
- Seasons Ready(and highly recommended)
- Built in GEO
- Precision Farming Compatible(real life soil map)
- New Silo Unloaders
- New crops: Silage Corn, short season soybeans, Alfalfa, rye, and triticale
- New corn harvesting techniques: Earlage and corn picking
- New fillTypes: Cracked corn, bean meal, ground feed, short season soybeans, and CCM(used to simulate high moisture corn feed types)
- Global Company fermenting silos and corn drying
- Calves, and milk replacer
- Autoload bale barns
- More realistic TMR mixes
- Automatic feeder bunk
- New heifer pen
- Corn and bean bales
- Large round bales (grass bales are still small for Anderson DLC compatibility)
CREDITS
- JS Mapping: Anhydrous fillType
- RAND0Msparks: Cracked corn fillType
- No Creek Farms: Seasonal decofoliage, alfalfa, bale textures
- NEFG Modding: Corn and bean textures, Silage Corn icon
- JMF Modding: Ear corn, and related assets, calves, ground feed
- Michael McArthur: Beanmeal
- Maize Plus Team: Maize Plus fillTypes, and scripts
- Max Wild, T0biifarming
- FNB Modding: Triticale
- OxygenDavid: Rye
- Tired Iron Modding: John Deere 300 corn picker, New Holland 353 grinder mixer(script by Derelky), 2 and 3 row snapper headers.
- GTX: Autoload barns
- Derelky: Grinder script
- Diniz Farms – Farming Simulator Modding: Earlage functionality, Seasons GEO, new silo systems, milk replacer system, GC fermenting scripts(based on the corn dryer script by JS Mapping), and various other visual and gameplay enhancements I may have forgotten.
- JS Mapping: Corn dryer
- Special thanks to Appalaches Modding for making the mods that inspired me to make this map, as well as to MRG Mapping, JS Mapping, and OS Farms Mapping and Modding for helping me with mapping related subjects.
- And a huge thank you to Western Iowa Modding & Edits, anytime I felt unmotivated, he’d always have something new to add to the map so I wouldn’t have to focus on whatever I couldn’t figure out at that time.
- Finally, without the advice and extensive knowledge of dairy farming from JMF Modding things like milk replacer would have never been considered, and a lot of the feed ration stuff wouldn’t be as detailed, he played a huge part in making this map realistic.
VIDEOS AND OTHER INFO
Click here for the Feeding Spreadsheet(Click File -> Make a Copy to get your own version to edit).
Seasons, Global Company, and Maize Plus(with Forage and CCM extensions) are required to play this map.
I recommend Green Mowing, Precision Farming, and the animal pen extension mods.