Does a flour mill pay on the spot for any truck that tips into its pit? No real buyer works like that.
Real agricultural trade for Farming Simulator 25: supply contracts with your map's buyers, a truck weighbridge that certifies every delivery, quality sampling, transport documents, settlements and raw material orders for your factories. Based on GAFTA/FOSFA contracts, Rosario Grain Arbitration Chamber receiving standards and shrink tables, legal-for-trade weighing. Works on ANY map, mod products included.
📋 SUPPLY CONTRACTS, NOT SPOT SALES
Buyers publish contracts on the Purchase Board: quota per period (1 period = 1 game month, scales with days-per-month), duration, price vs today's quotation (fixed, or deferred: each delivery at that day's quotation), delivery mode (bulk, pallets, bales), quality requirement, settlement method, sometimes an advance. By family (grains/oilseeds, industrial crops, forage, livestock, food, industrial goods, energy).
🤝 NEGOTIATION AND COMMITMENTS
The buyer accepts, rejects or counter-offers (up to three rounds, by letter). Push too hard and it withdraws until next period.
Each period is fulfilled, partial or not delivered. Undelivered volume is charged as a % of its value; the contract stays in force. An on-screen strip shows this month's quotas: due, buyer, expiry.
Early termination follows the grain trade: today's replacement value minus your price on undelivered volume, plus unamortised advance; if the market fell below your price, you only refund the advance.
⚖️ THE TRUCK WEIGHBRIDGE
Placeable: 20 x 4 m deck, operator booth, animated barriers, traffic light, animated sampling probe, floodlights, ANPR camera, guardrails, outdoor display of your vehicle's real mass, sounds. Symbolic price, no upkeep: it stands for the public/plant weighbridge.
🚛 HOW A DELIVERY WORKS
1. Register your company (trading name, tax ID, consignor or haulier).
2. Issue the transport document (plates, harvest year, quantity, origin pre-filled; you type the driver). One document, one journey.
3. Show it at the window: document, validity, companies, unit, contract, product checked. Barrier up, green light.
4. Drive on with the whole combination and sound the HORN: barrier closes, weighing starts (waits if the trailer is still under it).
5. The probe samples moisture, foreign matter, broken grain, temperature. Approved (with or without deductions): gross ticket. Rejected: leave without unloading.
6. Unload at the contracted plant. No cash at the pit: it counts toward your contract; above quota, spot price.
7. Return empty, horn again: tare recorded, ticket closed at net weight, delivery credited and settled.
Exit barrier lowers itself. Pallets and bales are counted, weighed and checked for packaging, not probed.
❓ In and back, one weighbridge? Trade weight is net: loaded, then empty. In real trade the legal instrument belongs to the plant, elevator or town. The TICKET certifies weight, the UNLOADING at the selling point certifies destination: one weighbridge serves every buyer; unload elsewhere and it isn't credited. The open ticket travels with the truck: tare can be weighed at any weighbridge; big maps can have several. No ticket? Ordinary spot sale; the contract doesn't move.
🌾 QUALITY AND MOISTURE
Standards: wheat/barley 14 %, maize 14.5 %, soybean 13.5 %, sunflower 11 %. Above that: drying, official shrink table (water + handling loss), drying fee. Excess foreign matter is discounted, not rejected.
💰 SETTLEMENTS AND RATING
Per delivery, monthly, quarterly, end of campaign or contract, with statement (quantity, deductions, drying, commission, net). Advances recovered from later settlements. Supplier rating A to D: quotas, quality, documentation. Good ratings bring more offers and better premium.
🏭 RAW MATERIAL ORDERS
Publish an order: factory, product, quantity, period, price. In multiplayer other farms can take it or counter-offer; otherwise up to three market companies quote within a few game hours: pick, negotiate or reject all. Price includes margin, freight, urgency surcharge: buying costs more than producing. Reserved on agreement, paid per truck received; track each truck (preparing, loading, on the road, at the weighbridge). Between farms the supplier issues the transport document. Rescinding costs 10 % of what's left. Periods are commercial days (30 per month); the order shows game time (1 day/month = 24 h).
🌐 MULTIPLAYER AND DEDICATED SERVER
Server-authoritative. Each player works for their farm; notices reach only that farm, in their language. Any farm can use another's weighbridge; the ticket goes to the truck's owner.
🎮 No new key bindings: Supply Contracts tab in pause menu, interaction key at the window, horn starts weighing.
⚙️ EN, ES, DE, FR, IT • Compatible with Agricultural Financial System (GN Realism): settlements and purchases on current account
Made with a passion for realistic farming simulation. 🚜
