“One of the main reasons I play Farming Simulator is, in real life, we don’t run a very large operation,” says Wade Kelley, who works on his family’s 500-acre corn farm in Tennessee.
The simulation game allows farmers to run large operations and expensive machinery, like Big Bud tractors, out of reach for their own business. “Even though Farming Simulator is about farming, it’s also about all the dynamics in the background, like trying to manage your budget, buy the land next to you, and get new equipment that will make your operation more efficient.” “There’s a type of accomplishment, to grow and build and overcome a challenge in the game,” says Nick Welker, of Welker Farms Inc, a 10,000 acre wheat farm in northern Montana. The game’s creator, Giants Software, estimates that as many as a quarter of its players are connected to farming in some way, and around 8-10% are full-time, professional farmers. And then, in the evening, you sit down at a computer to do it all again – virtually.įarming Simulator is a long-running video game series played by about a million people. You do this every day, all year, in all weather.
I magine that you spend most of your day ploughing fields, sowing seeds, spraying fertilisers or pesticides, harvesting crops, feeding livestock (if you have any), repairing fences, and maintaining a half-dozen different kinds of farm machinery.
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