Growing Catuaí Coffee: Beans and Alpacas

From the verdant, sun-drenched hillsides to a steaming, aromatic morning brew: coffee arrives as one of the exciting new crops in Farming Simulator 25: Beans & Alpacas, debuting alongside bananas.

Cultivating coffee introduces an entirely fresh operational loop to your enterprise. You will establish sprawling plantations, meticulously monitor crop health, pilot specialized agricultural machinery, and steer your harvest through intricate production chains that ultimately yield gourmet beverages, decadent tiramisu, artisan coffee yogurt, and much more. Let’s dive into the details!

Coffee at a Glance

Five Distinct Growth Stages, Eight Months of Care & Abundant Red Cherries

Coffee finds its ideal microclimate among the rolling slopes of Catuaí. The flora progresses through five distinct maturation phases before vibrant crimson cherries signal that the season of abundance has arrived. Forget traditional seeders and complex seed-rate calculations per hectare; coffee utilizes a dedicated, streamlined plantation system.

While the agricultural calendar dictates the standard planting and harvesting cycles, new plantations can now be established year-round. Their initial development phase adapts automatically to the prevailing season—particularly within the warm, tailored climate of Catuaí and its bespoke growth schedule.

Design Your Plantation

Advanced Boundary Painting Streamlines Row Layouts

Gone are the days of laying down individual plantation rows manually. An innovative boundary-painting mechanism makes plotting expansive fields exceptionally swift. Simply trace the perimeter of your desired cultivation zone. The system intelligently computes optimal row orientations and generates a comprehensive layout preview. From there, you can effortlessly adjust angles, review projected expenditures, and refine the design before final placement. This upgraded framework also enhances traditional vineyard and orchard management for grapes and olives.

Within Catuaí, coffee estates look and feel completely at home cascading down steep hillsides. Heavily inspired by South American topography, the map boasts lush vegetation, rich red topsoil, and picturesque landscapes reminiscent of Brazil’s finest agricultural heartlands.

Safeguard Plant Health

Combat Fungal Pathogens to Protect Your Yield

Cultivating specialty coffee demands vigilance between initial sowing and final collection. Foliage is susceptible to stubborn fungal infections, requiring targeted fungicide treatments once per harvest cycle to maintain optimal plant vigor.

This is where specialized machinery like the KUHN AFS 600 proves indispensable. Fill the specialized tank with fungicide, maneuver between tightly aligned rows, and get to work. Its precision boom treats two distinct rows simultaneously in a single, efficient pass.

Navigating narrow corridors is made remarkably stress-free thanks to integrated GPS steering assistance, allowing you to focus squarely on equipment operations and crop care. Alternatively, virtual farmers who prefer to bypass phytosanitary management can simply disable fungal outbreaks in the game settings.

Crimson Means Ready

Initiate the Coffee Cherry Harvest

Following months of careful tending, the flora displays heavy clusters of ripe, ruby-red fruit. Botanical accuracy matters here: at this stage, you are harvesting delicate coffee cherries rather than processed coffee beans.

For the gathering process, the robust Case IH Coffee Express 200 Multi straddles the plantation rows with ease. Its dynamic shaking mechanisms gently dislodge the cherries, guiding them onto internal conveyor belts before depositing the yield into the onboard storage hopper. An integrated cleaning apparatus simultaneously filters out loose leaves and debris.

Watch closely as the dense coffee bushes visibly compress under the harvester’s chassis, accompanied by immersive particle effects depicting cascading foliage and bouncing harvested goods.

Once your harvester nears capacity, the nimble Colombo CTG 4500 transfer cart—towed by a reliable tractor such as the New Holland 8030—can slide seamlessly between the rows. This enables direct, on-site offloading, transferring the crop to larger logistics trailers stationed at the edge of the field and eliminating endless transit time.

The Final Stages

Dry, Process, and Transform Your Yield

With your harvest safely secured, the journey continues at the local Coffee Processing Facility. You may choose to offload the raw crop for immediate financial return or take administrative control of the plant to push further down the value chain.

Inside, the raw cherries undergo a rigorous drying regimen that converts the fruit into stable raw material ready for final roasting. Dynamic storage tanks, humming conveyor belts, and animated processing machinery ensure you can visually track your crop’s transformation rather than relying on abstract behind-the-scenes magic. The end output is bagged coffee—and this is where your production empire truly begins to branch out.

Roast, Package, and Brew

A Multifaceted Production Web

Transport your coffee bags to the Coffee Roastery to convert them into two premium commodities: Coffee Capsules and Retail-Ready Packed Coffee. From this point forward, coffee integrates into various culinary networks across Catuaí. The local Coffee Shop crafts invigorating Coffee Beverages, while packaged distributions feed directly into broader food industries. Visit the Bakery to blend coffee with farm-fresh eggs and flour to produce exquisite tiramisu, or stop by the Dairy, where coffee combines seamlessly with sugar and milk to formulate creamy coffee yogurts.

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