User blog comment:MindoPod/Profit Potential of Crops Per Minute/@comment-26338253-20150423144209/@comment-5965519-20150423145836

Hi - Thanks for your comment and question. The answer will not always be the same because at different times in the game your GOAL will be different.

There are times when you need coins, such as when you are saving to buy a new machine. When that's the case, the crops do not give you the highest absolute profit. You can use them to fill in, in between times, but you will get more profit from selling hard to find items such as cakes and pies and ice cream, etc. or whatever you have extra. Feed also sells very well and is a good profit-per-minute item.

There are other times in the game when your goal is to get tools, such as those needed to enlarge your barn or silo, expand land or receive axes, saws or mining tools. When you want tools then producing crops is a great way to get them. You can receive a tool almost every time you harvest all your crops. And then of course you can sell the crops for profit - or the tools too sell like hotcakes super fast.

If you are looking for tools as your main goal, you can also wait to see what the visitors who drop by the house are asking for and grow what they want. They don't pay as much as you will get selling your crops in the store, but they do give a few experience points (you don't get experience points selling things in the store) and they are a fast way to get rid of excess crops in a hurry.

A reminder about selling things in your store - if things have not sold within 4 minutes, go back into your store and hit the advertise button again. You can hit it every 4 minutes - free - until everything sells. In this way you have room to add more items, or crops, to your store.