Run A Farm Farm Management: Workers and Vehicles to Set Up at Every Stage

Quick answer

Set up the Farm Office hires that match the work your farm already does: a Stocker to carry eggs from the nests to your stand, a Planter to sow your empty fields, Farmhands to harvest ripe fields and, once the Tractor Barn unlocks the slot, a Tractor Driver to run your tractor through ripe fields for you. On the vehicle side, the Garage creates the TRUCK BAY for trucks that haul goods to town, and the cheap Farm Bike carries you into Town Park.

• Stocker — carries eggs from the nests to your stand, 12 at a time (cap 3)
• Planter — sows your empty fields with your seeds, one field per trip (cap 2)
• Farmhand — harvests your ripe fields, carrying 15 crops at a time (cap 6)
• Tractor Driver — drives your tractor through ripe fields (cap 1, locked until you have the Tractor Barn)
• Garage ($1,200) creates the TRUCK BAY; the Farm Bike ($15) carries you from the farm into Town Park

Run A Farm ties a few loops together: you collect eggs and sell them at your stand, plant crops and harvest them with tractors, drive your trucks to town to sell your goods, and dig for ore in your own mine. Workers and vehicles are how you hand those jobs off. Each confirmed worker takes over one chore — carrying eggs, sowing, harvesting or driving the tractor — and each vehicle covers a distinct job: the Farm Bike carries you, trucks haul goods to town, and the tractor harvests your fields. Below is what each one does, which stage of farm it pays off at, and a setup order that follows the cash.

Every worker and what it takes over

All hires come from the Farm Office, which costs $500 to build. Its workers panel shows each role's job description, how many of that worker you have already hired against its cap, and the price of the next hire. Two things to know before reading the table: every extra hire of the same type costs more than the last, and the prices shown here are the figures displayed on screen during play — treat them as a scale, not a fixed price list.

Farm Office workers and the job each one takes over

Farm Office workers and the job each one takes over

Worker	What it takes over	Cap	Observed hire cost
Stocker	Carries eggs from the nests to your stand, 12 at a time	3	$250 for a first hire, $550 for a second
Planter	Sows your empty fields with your seeds, one field per trip	2	$400
Farmhand	Harvests your ripe fields, carrying 15 crops at a time	6	$1,020; a late-game hire was $8,011
Tractor Driver	Drives your tractor through ripe fields	1 (locked until the Tractor Barn)	$25,900 hire tier observed late game

Notes on those numbers:

• The Stocker is the cheapest worker hire in the observed range and the first one worth buying. Egg sales drive the early game, and a Stocker ends the walk between nests and stand.
• Farmhands scale the furthest: six slots is more than any other worker type, so harvesting capacity keeps growing with your cash.
• The Planter manages with only two slots because it covers a whole field per trip.
• The Tractor Driver hire reads 'Needs Tractor Barn' until the barn exists, and even then only one is allowed — plan it as a late purchase.

On a developed farm the same panel shows the scale late-stage hires reach — most Stocker and Planter slots maxed out, a Farmhand at $8,011 and the Tractor Driver tier at $25,900:

Matching each hire to your farm's current stage

The right next hire is simply the one that takes over the chore you are personally doing the most right now:

Decision guide

Choose for your situation

You keep carrying eggs from the nests to the stand yourself

Hire a Stocker. Each one shuttles 12 eggs at a time, and a first hire was observed at just $250.

You have fields, but they sit empty because sowing them eats your time

Hire a Planter. It sows your empty fields with your seeds, one field per trip, so planting continues while you are elsewhere.

Ripe crops are piling up while you mine or run loads into town

Hire a Farmhand. It harvests ripe fields and carries 15 crops per load, and with six slots you can run several at once.

You own a tractor but you are still the one driving it

Build the Tractor Barn to unlock the Tractor Driver slot, then hire one to drive your tractor through ripe fields for you.

The pattern underneath: a hire only pays once the matching activity exists on your farm. Eggs make the Stocker worthwhile, fields make the Planter and Farmhand worthwhile, and the Tractor Driver is not even purchasable until the Tractor Barn is standing.

A setup order that follows the cash

If you would rather follow one route from fresh start to late farm, this order tracks what your money is doing at each stage:

Roadmap

1. 1

   Egg stand stage

   Keep the stand stocked without making every egg run yourself.

   • Build the Farm Office ($500)
   • Hire your first Stocker (observed at $250)
   • Put spare cash into more coops — extra eggs mean steadier stand sales
2. 2

   First fields

   Turn empty ground into crops without hand-sowing and hand-picking.

   • Buy Field 1 ($120) and build the Seed Market ($50), where you buy and unlock seeds
   • Hire a Planter ($400) to sow your empty fields
   • Add Sprinklers ($120) so crops grow 30% faster
   • Hire a Farmhand ($1,020) to harvest the ripe fields
3. 3

   Vehicle stage

   Move yourself and your goods faster.

   • Build the Garage ($1,200) to create the TRUCK BAY
   • Buy the Farm Bike ($15) for the ride into Town Park
   • Bring in a tractor so fields are harvested by machine instead of by hand
4. 4

   Late-stage scaling

   More hands on every loop.

   • Fill Farmhand (6) and Stocker (3) slots, expecting each hire to cost more than the last
   • Build the Tractor Barn and hire your one Tractor Driver (hire tier observed at $25,900)
   • Raise Walk Speed and Carry so the crew you already own moves faster and hauls more

Storage Racks ($800) round the crop side out with room for 120 crops — handy once hired Farmhands are harvesting more than you want to carry around yourself.

Vehicles: what the Garage, tractor and trucks each do

The vehicles this farm relies on split into three distinct jobs. The Garage costs $1,200 and creates the TRUCK BAY, the home base for trucks — and trucks are the haulers, since the core loop is driving your trucks to town to sell your goods. The Farm Bike is the $15 personal ride that carries you from the farm into Town Park, the same trip the sell-crops-in-town quests send you on. The tractor is the field machine: crops are built to be harvested with tractors rather than picked by hand, and once the Tractor Barn exists you can hand the wheel to a Tractor Driver entirely. Our guides cover how to use tractors and how to sell crops in more detail.

Worker upgrades: Walk Speed and Carry

The Farm Office also sells two upgrades that improve the workers you already have:

Upgrade prices climb as you buy levels — the same Carry upgrade that starts at $1,800 was displayed at $2,970 in later gameplay. Since caps limit how many workers each type allows, these upgrades are the other way to get more out of the slots you have already filled.

Where the cash for all this comes from

Cash spreads across every one of these systems, and the priorities are clear early on: more chicken coops mean extra eggs and steadier stand sales, seeds let you fill fields and bring in the tractor instead of harvesting everything by hand, and every hire keeps daily tasks moving while you focus on mining or driving trucks into town yourself. The mining guide covers that third loop, and how to get rich fast goes deeper on income. Before a big hire it is also worth a quick look at the current Run A Farm codes for anything on offer, and if you are still in your first session, the Run A Farm beginner guide walks through the earliest hours step by step. Buying up ground and buildings ties into farm expansion, and the egg side of the loop is covered in how to collect eggs and our chicken coop guide.