Top 5 Farmville crops

If you’ve been playing Farmville for a while, you know that the best way to make coins is the most obvious: farm crops! You can have a lot of fun harvesting trees or collecting items from animals on your farm, but the real money comes from consistently plowing, seeding, and harvesting your crops. But there are so many choices of what to plant in Farmville, and you might be wondering what you should choose. Well, worry no more, because here are the Top 5 crops to plant based on their coin yield.

Methodology

First, a quick work on the methodology. This is really just some simple math that looks at the cost of the seeds and the selling price, which then determines the profit per plot of ground. Then it factors in the growth time to determine the coins per hour that you’ll earn. Remember to pick the best crop that matches your play pattern. For example, having a high-yield crop with a low growth time doesn’t help you if you can’t log in more than once every other day or so.

Finally, know that all of these crops are only available at the higher levels in the game, so I’ve included the level requirement in the table below. You’ll need to be at least level 19 to plant any of the top five seeds. Now on to the top crops!

The Top Five Crops

Crop	Level Required	Cost	Growth Time	XP Gain	Selling Price	Profit per Plot	Yield (Coins per Hour)
Tomatoes	20	100	8 hours	1	173	58	7.25
Sugar Cane	31	165	8 hours	1	239	59	7.37
Grapes	19	85	1 day	2	270 coins	170	7.39
Asparagus	37	220	16 hours	2	357	122	7.63
Peas	32	190	1 day	3	381	176	7.65

If you’ve been playing Farmville for a while, you know that the best way to make coins is the most obvious: farm crops! You can have a lot of fun harvesting trees or collecting items from animals on your farm, but the real money comes from consistently plowing, seeding, and harvesting your crops. But there are so many choices of what to plant in Farmville, and you might be wondering what you should choose. Well, worry no more, because here are the Top 5 crops to plant based on their coin yield.

Methodology

First, a quick work on the methodology. This is really just some simple math that looks at the cost of the seeds and the selling price, which then determines the profit per plot of ground. Then it factors in the growth time to determine the coins per hour that you’ll earn. Remember to pick the best crop that matches your play pattern. For example, having a high-yield crop with a low growth time doesn’t help you if you can’t log in more than once every other day or so.

Finally, know that all of these crops are only available at the higher levels in the game, so I’ve included the level requirement in the table below. You’ll need to be at least level 19 to plant any of the top five seeds. Now on to the top crops!

The Top Five Crops

Crop	Level Required	Cost	Growth Time	XP Gain	Selling Price	Profit per Plot	Yield (Coins per Hour)
Tomatoes	20	100	8 hours	1	173	58	7.25
Sugar Cane	31	165	8 hours	1	239	59	7.37
Grapes	19	85	1 day	2	270 coins	170	7.39
Asparagus	37	220	16 hours	2	357	122	7.63
Peas	32	190	1 day	3	381	176	7.65

Farmville animals

The first animal you'll be able to buy is a chicken, followed a few levels later by a cow, and then finally a sheep. You may be able to acquire some animals before you're able to buy them though because you will always be able to receive them as gifts. You can ask your friends to give you some animals, or they may just do it all on their own. There are some animals too, like horses for instance, that you can only receive as gifts.
Animals are different from crops in several ways. First of all, they cost a lot and their products sell for very little. For example, a cow will cost you 400 coins, but each time you milk it, you'll only get 6 coins from the milk you sell.
Of course, you don't have to buy a new cow every time you milk one. They'll take day or so to be ready for you to milk again, and you'll get another 6 coins out of the deal.

It can take a while to make a profit off of your animals, but eventually you will. It's also just fun to have them around, and you can do more than just milk them. They like to go for walks and are very happy when they get attention from you.
You can also sell them if you're really strapped for cash. You won't get what you paid for them, but you'll get enough to help you out in a pinch. And if you acquired them as a gift to begin with, then selling them just gets you some free money.
You also gain experience from buying animals and from selling the milk, eggs, or wool they produce.
This is another good reason to invest in some animals if you want to level up fast. You do have to be careful to pen them though. Otherwise they'll wander off and you'll take a loss on your investment. Once in a while, a stray animal will wander onto your farm, and you'll be able to help them find a new home.

What to Plant on your farmville farm.

The only crop options available to you at first will be strawberries, eggplant, wheat, and soybeans. Each of these crops has several different characteristics, and so different benefits. Which crop you decide to plant will have a lot to do with how often you're going to be checking on your farm, as well as how quickly you want to advance in the game.
You can find a complete breakdown of each crop and its attributes at the end of this guide, but here are a few general tips to help you evaluate your options as you begin playing.

How Big should your farm get?

Of course, the more land you have to plant on, the more money you'll make by harvesting your crops. This doesn't mean you can keep expanding your farm indefinitely though. Plowing and planting aren't free. You'll just be wasting time and money if you plow a bunch of fields and then can't afford to buy any seeds to plant in them. Therefore, you want to expand a little bit at a time so that you're able to fully take advantage of all of your available acreage.

The best way to maximize your growth and planning potential at first is to clear 10 more patches of land. Once you harvest the crops that were ready and waiting for you, you'll have just enough money to clear that land and plant on it. This way, you'll have more land to grow crops on, and you'll be able to plant on all of it right away.

You can, of course, clear more land right away. If you do that though, you won't have enough money left to plant any crops and a lot of the land will just sit empty. You also won't be able to plant on as may clear parcels of land as you would have if you didn't clear so many to begin with. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, if you want to get a big farm going fast, you have to take it slow.

Harvesting Time

One of the many factors to take into account when deciding what to plant is how long you will have to wait to harvest it. Strawberries, for example, will be ready to harvest 4 hours after you plant them. If you don't get back to harvest them within 8 hours though, they'll wilt and you won't be able to make any money off of them.

You want to make sure you're not going to be planting a bunch of crops that will wilt before you can harvest them. For instance, eggplants take 2 days to grow, so you may want to consider planting these instead of strawberries if you're not going to be checking on your farm for a while. That way, you get the best use out of your land and you get a bigger payoff at the end of the growing cycle. Crops that take longer to grow also generally sell for more coins at harvest time.

Experience

Another factor that will contribute to your planting decision is that different crops yield different benefits in terms of experience. Crops that take at least a day to grow will grant you 2 experience points for each patch of land you plant them on. Most crops take at least this long to grow to maturity, but there are some, like strawberries, that only take a few hours. These will only get you one experience point per plot of land planted. The faster you accumulate experience points, the faster you'll move up to the next level.

That doesn't mean you want to only plant the crops that give you 2 experience points though. If you're going to be able to check back on your strawberries and plant more as soon as the old ones are ready to be harvested, you can actually get more experience points in a day with these types of crops. It all depends on how well you stay on top of your planting and harvesting cycles.

Investment Return

Another factor to consider when you're deciding what to plant will be the relationship between the cost of the seeds and the price you get for your goods when you harvest them. In this context, soybeans are the best of the crops you have available to you at the start of the game. They cost only 15 coins to plant per plot of land, but you can sell your harvest for 63 coins per plot of land.

This is a return of more than 4 times your initial investment, as opposed to the three and a half times return that strawberries provide. Of course, the soybeans take longer to grow than the strawberries do. Because there are so many factors that go can influence your decision about what to plant, you can see that this isn't exactly a straightforward decision.

How to add farmville friends and protect your personal information

Finding and adding neighbors is one of the fastest ways to level up in Farmville. You need 50 friends to obtain the Local Celebrity blue ribbon which gives you 10,000 coin and 100xp. However, having plenty of Farmville neighbors has many other advantages as well. The more neighbors you have the more gifts you can receive, the more you will benefit by getting a bonus when they receive awards, and the more opportunities you will have to help your neighbors toward the Good Samartian ribbons. Plus, having friends in the game is just fun!

Unfortunately, adding people you don't know in Facebook also exposes your personal information, your profile, and your status updates. It wouldn't be very difficult for someone to pretend to play the game, get added as your friend, and steal all of your personal information and invade your privacy.

You should strongly consider following my 10 easy steps for protecting your Facebook profile before you add a single person you don't know:

1. From your Facebook main page, click on the "Account" button in the upper right-hand side of the page and select "Edit Friends" in the dropdown box.
2. Select the "+Create" link on the bottom left-hand side of the page below Lists. If you don't see the "+Create" link, click on the "All Connections" link on the upper left-hand side and you will see a link for "Create New List" in the upper-middle area. If neither of these work for you, go here for more directions on how to create a list.
3. You should see a new window. Title your new list, "Farmville friends", "Farmville neighbors" or whatever you want to call it. Select "Create List".
4. After you have created your new list, click on the "Account" button again in the upper right-hand side of the page and select the dropdown for "Privacy Settings".
5. Now you should see the Privacy Settings page. Select "Profile Information".
6. Select the dropdown box for each option and select "Custom".
7. Once you have selected "Custom" you should see a new window. At the bottom it should read, "Hide this from". In the box in this window type the name of the list you created in Step 3 and select the list.
8. Repeat this process for every option on the page EXCEPT "Posts by Me" or your Farmville neighbors will not be able to see your updates when you share your awards, ribbons, lost animals, etc.
9. Once you have customized every option on the Profile Information page, click "Back to Privacy" on the upper left-hand side to return to the Privacy Settings page.
10. Now select the link for "Contact Information" and repeat steps 6-8 for every option on the Contact Information page.


Congratulations, you are finished! Very Important: Whenever you add a new friend for Farmville before you confirm them, select the "Add To List..." dropdown and select the name of your list (chosen in Step 3). You must put them on this list for this to work!


If you want to test and make sure it works, click on the "Preview My Profile..." link on the upper right-hand side of the Privacy Settings>Profile Information or Contact Information pages.

Happy farming.