Weeds Farming Simulator 22

[Snake Man]

Short: plowing prevents weeds (no spraying needed). Herbicide spray after seeding to prevent weeds.

2024

2024-02-16T10:39:00Z

Herbicide spraying right after seeding / planting is the correct way to get yield-bonus 95% regarding weeds. -source Start From Zero PMC Super Six 6km (cheat) 2022-09-28.

When herbicide spraying straight after seeding, field texture color / shade will not change, it is so creepy and uncomfortable to spray these fields without seeing where have you sprayer earlier, you just got to trust courseplay doing its thing without fucking up, only thing possible is to stop for a refill and then continue from the current waypoint. If herbicide runs out in some nasty spot that you cant get rubicon to continue from current waypoint, well then you are truly fucked. same as above.

2024-02-21T04:23:00Z

Snippets from Start From Zero PMC Cereal Region 32km story:

Its now apr 1st in-game 1840hrs so night is falling fast, I only have F221 to fertilize which is about half way done, then all fields herbicide spraying. The thing is, night is falling, fields are just seeded... if I time accelerate to tomorrow, I bet that triggers the weed first stage of growth and sort of ruins the whole idea of pre-emptive spraying.

Or hmm is pre-emptive spraying a solid strategy as long as soybean or whatever crop it is, doesn't sprout those green plants out of the ground at which point herbicide will burn them a bit reducing yield. Hmm but... does these green plants pop up right away tomorrow, hmm cant remember, I think they are in planted stage for one day at least.

Anyways not the end of the world, but just thought crossed my mind that time ran out of this first day of planting season, kind of.

2024-05-04T13:18:45Z

I was in sep 2nd when using 12 day seasons config, I just seeded several fields and night was falling before I managed to spray them, had to time accelerate until sep 3rd daybreak... No weeds were growing yet.

This leads me to believe that weeds start to grow on first day of a month which in my case is several days away at oct 1st.

2025

2025-10-12T10:02:15Z

I always try to pre-emptively herbicide spray my fields if I didn't plow them previously to prevent weeds. My belief was that if you let the weeds grow to your field and then you spray them, that spraying damages the crop like 1-2% of yield-bonus. This is false, right now what happened I missed spraying one part of my field, my corn green smallest plants sprout out at 2/6 growth stage along with narrow strip of weeds. Then I went and Rubicon 9000 sprayed those weeds and when I walk across the field after spraying, yield-bonus is 98% everywhere including the sprayed out weeds strip. Hmm interesting.

Not sure where I got that info/belief that if weeds sprout out to your fields then a very small percentage of the damage has already been done, its too late for a perfect crop, but that doesn't appear the be the case, my yield-bonus is nice 98% right now after spraying weeds on the 2/6 growth stage of corn.

This means that if there are situations where I have to pre-emptively spray, I rather not because it feels so stupid to spray the dry brown field without anything happening, the field surface texture will not change color shading when I spray because it was previously fertilized just prior to seeding. So I would much rather let the weeds sprout out, see then clearly in the mix of the green small plants of the crop, also see them on ESC mapview and then I get to spray them easily because there is a clear visual indicator in both 3d world and in the map.

I am not sure if the herbicide spraying damages the crop, yield-bonus, if you let weeds grow into further growth stages, might be interesting to test that out sometime.

BTW my yield-bonus is 98% because I don't mulch or roll, I do run the no rolling needed mod but I believe its the munching that causes 2% yield loss, assuming that 100% yield bonus is even possible, I don't ever recall seeing it on my fields in FS22. As can be seen from the 2024 quotes, back then I was running with 95% yield-bonus apparently due missing "no rolling" mod at the time.

Feel free to reply your weed and herbicide spraying experiences, would love to hear about them.


Farming Simulator 22. FS22. Farmsim. Weed control FS22. When do I spray my fields in FS22? Farmsim herbicide spraying.