Farmer

Farmer is a civilian job in Flint County, at Blueberry Acres in Red County, and on CITy Island near San Fierro where you plant and harvest crops.

How the job works

Farmer is a resource job on the Civilian side.

You choose a crop, plant it with a Tractor, wait for it to grow, then harvest it with a Combine Harvester.

Resource crops can be sold through F7 or used for crafting in F9. Sunflowers pay cash directly.

Locations

Farmer is available at:

Flint County and Blueberry Acres in Red County
CITy Island near San Fierro

For the island farm, /gps lists Farmer (CITy Island) with the zone Palisades. It leads you to the island entrance, because the GPS cannot show places outside the default map.

How to start

To start the Farmer job:

Go to the barn.
Enter the yellow vehicle marker and spawn a Tractor.
While driving the Tractor, press N to choose a crop.
Use a Tractor to plant it.

Crops

The crop options are:

Herbs
Hemp
Wheat
Pumpkins
Sunflowers

Physical seed items are discontinued. Old Seeds can be put into a restaurant business for profit.

Herbs, Hemp, and Wheat pay as resources. Pumpkins can be selected, planted and harvested. They pay 1 Pumpkin, sometimes 2, per 30-second batch.

Sunflowers pay cash directly.

How it works

After choosing a crop:

Use a Tractor to plant it.
Wait about 4 minutes for it to grow.
Watch for the green blips that show ready crops.
Use a Combine Harvester to harvest them.

After harvesting, resource crops can be sold through F7 or used for crafting in F9. Sunflowers pay cash directly.

Vehicles

Farmer uses:

Tractor for planting
Combine Harvester for harvesting
Walton, also offered at the barn vehicle marker. A friend can drive it next to or behind your Combine Harvester to collect bales automatically; the bales are not visible to the Walton driver.

Skin

Farmer uses these skin IDs:

0
157
158
159
160
161
162
198
200

Pay facts

Topic	Value
Sunflower bale at `L0`	`$240` without VIP or `$288` with VIP
Sunflower bale at `L10`	`$720` without VIP or `$864` with VIP
Resource crops	Hemp, Herbs, and Wheat use the same job value, then convert into resources by the current internal resource value
Timing	Hemp, Herbs, and Wheat use the same farming timing as Sunflower

L0 to L10 pay table

Collected bales are paid together every 30 seconds. The table is for a single bale; a batch is floor(no-VIP bale value x VIP multiplier x bale count), with 1.2 for VIP. The game rounds the batch once, so multiplying the rounded single-bale value can differ by a few dollars.

Level	Without VIP per Sunflower bale or resource cash-equivalent bale	With VIP per Sunflower bale or resource cash-equivalent bale
L0	$240	$288
L1	$288	$345
L2	$336	$403
L3	$384	$460
L4	$432	$518
L5	$480	$576
L6	$528	$633
L7	$576	$691
L8	$624	$748
L9	$672	$806
L10	$720	$864

Progression

Farmer progression is measured in progress points. Each collected bale gives 2 progress.

Farmer levels are:

L0 Scarecrow, 0 progress
L1 Gardener, 500 progress
L2 Hay Pusher, 1,500 progress
L3 Migrant Farmer, 3,500 progress
L4 Harvester, 6,500 progress
L5 Professional Plower, 11,500 progress
L6 Agriculturist, 18,500 progress
L7 Farming Machine, 27,500 progress
L8 Botanical Master, 39,500 progress
L9 Agricultural Prodigy, 53,500 progress
L10 Amish God, 70,000 progress

The Basic Agricultural Skills course reduces crop growth time by 5%.

At Level 10, you unlock:

/go farmer

Achievement

The Level 10 civilian achievement for Farmer is:

Professional Farmer

Job Notes

Farmer is available in Flint County, at Blueberry Acres in Red County, and on CITy Island.
The job starts from the yellow marker in the barn.
Press N to choose your crop.
Crops take about 4 minutes to grow.
Ready crops show as green blips.
Plant with a Tractor and harvest with a Combine Harvester.
Herbs, Hemp, and Wheat pay as resources.
Pumpkins pay 1 Pumpkin, sometimes 2, per 30-second harvest batch.
Sunflowers pay cash directly.

Current planting and harvest flow

Enter the barn vehicle marker for a Tractor, Combine Harvester, or Walton. While driving the Tractor, press N to select a crop and drive in the marked field to plant automatically. Physical Seeds are discontinued. Crops take about 4 minutes to grow and ready plants appear as green blips.

Use the Combine Harvester to turn grown crops into bales, then collect the bales on foot. Hemp, Herbs, and Wheat enter the inventory. Sunflowers pay cash. Pumpkins can be selected, planted and harvested. They pay 1 Pumpkin, sometimes 2, per 30-second batch.

Local marker and HUD

Press N at the local Farmer job marker to return to the Employment Office. The HUD shows Planted and Grown counts. Ready crops also appear as green blips, and after a Combine Harvester creates a bale the HUD tells the player to get out and collect it.

Plant and bale limits

A Farmer can have up to 100 plants growing at once. Your crops do not keep growing after you quit the Farmer job.
Farmers can collect bales while using a jetpack.
Each collected bale adds 2 Farmer progress.
Use /r <message> for Farmer job radio.

Choosing bale payment

Use N in the Tractor to choose Hemp, Herbs, or Wheat. At the same rank and VIP status, each uses the same cash equivalent bale value. The number of resource items depends on that resource's current conversion value.