Coffee Cultivation Revealed for Farming Simulator 25: Beans & Alpacas

From green plantations on the hills to a finished cup, coffee is one of the new crops arriving in Farming Simulator 25: Beans & Alpacas, alongside bananas. The crop brings a full new line of work to the farm: establishing plantations, managing plant health, operating specialized harvesting equipment, and deciding how far to take the harvest through production chains that can lead to coffee beverages, tiramisu, coffee yogurt, and more.

Five Growth Stages, Eight Months, Plenty of Cherries

Coffee fits naturally into the hills of the new map, Catuaí. Plants move through five growth stages before their reddish cherries signal they're ready for harvest. Rather than using a conventional seeder or a seed rate per hectare, coffee relies on its own dedicated plantation system.

While the growth calendar sets the normal planting and harvesting cycle, plantations can now be placed at any point during the year, with their initial growth stage automatically adjusting to the current season — at least on Catuaí, where the warm climate follows its own growth calendar.

A Faster Way to Lay Out Plantations

Instead of placing every plantation row by hand, a new boundary-painting feature speeds up setting up larger plantations. Players simply paint the boundary of the area they want to use, and the game calculates a suitable row orientation and shows the resulting layout. From there, the angle can be adjusted, the cost checked, and the plantation fine-tuned before placing it. This improved system also benefits existing plantation crops like grapes and olives.

On Catuaí, coffee plantations fit especially well on the slopes — the map draws on South American landscapes, with dense vegetation, red soil, and rolling hills reminiscent of Brazil's coffee-growing regions.

Managing Plant Health

Growing coffee adds another step between planting and harvest: the plants can develop fungal disease on their leaves, which requires treatment with fungicide once per harvest cycle.

That's where the KUHN AFS 600 comes in — filling the plantation sprayer with fungicide and driving between the rows lets players treat two plantation rows in a single pass. GPS guidance makes navigating the tightly spaced rows easier, letting players focus more on operating the machinery. Fungal disease treatment can also be disabled entirely for those who'd rather skip that step.

Harvesting the Cherries

After several months of growth, the plants show their ripe, reddish fruit — at this stage, players are harvesting coffee cherries, not coffee beans. The Case IH Coffee Express 200 Multi moves directly over the plantation rows, with its harvesting elements shaking the cherries from the plants, collecting them on a belt, and transporting them into the machine's tank, while a cleaning unit separates out leaves along the way.

The bushy coffee plants visibly compress as they pass through the harvester, and new particle effects add extra movement to falling leaves and harvested crop.

Once the harvester starts filling up, the narrow Colombo CTG 4500 can move between the rows behind a tractor such as the New Holland 8030, allowing players to unload directly inside the plantation and transfer cherries to a larger trailer outside the rows instead of repeatedly driving the harvester to the field's edge.

Drying and Processing

With the cherries collected, the next stop is the Coffee Processing Plant. Players can sell the crop there directly, or take control of the facility themselves to continue processing the harvest. Inside, the cherries go through a drying process that turns the harvested fruit into coffee ready for further production, with tanks, conveyor belts, and animated equipment letting players watch the crop move through the facility rather than having the transformation happen off-screen. The result is Coffee Bags — and this is where the production chain starts branching out.

From Roasting to the Final Product

Taking Coffee Bags to the Coffee Roastery turns them into two further products: Coffee Capsules and Packed Coffee. From there, coffee feeds into several production chains across Catuaí. The Coffee Shop turns it into Coffee Beverages, while Packed Coffee can continue into other food production lines. At the Bakery, combining coffee with eggs and flour produces Tiramisu, and at the Dairy, coffee joins sugar and milk to create Coffee Yogurt.

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