I've been playing this quite a bit. In summer second year and am making between 10k and 25k a day. Sprinklers on all my crops, fully upgraded house, only need to complete the fish tank (fucking hate fishing for specific fish) in the community centre and am married. Also need the deluxe coop and barn still. But I could do that outright at the moment if I wasn't struggling with supplying enough feed.
Have to say animals seem kinda of pointless when compared to the potential profits from crops.
Funny you say that, I put half of my bank into potato seeds (which also give a possibility of multiple per harvest) and am just waiting on them to sprout up. I've started putting fertilizer on almost all my crops which leads me to wonder if trees become a problem later on. Almost all the seeds I find go back into the ground and so long as I stop scything the baby saplings accidentally I think I'll be fine on that
I'm having mega problems with trees at the moment. I didn't bother cutting down many on the eastern half of the map. Now I want to explore there it's literally a dense forest there's so many trees. It'll probably take me a week in game to chop my way through them all. I doubt you'll have any problems with wood in the long run. I've got roughly 2000 in storage and I've been using a lot of it.
Also it's best to plant crops that can grow multiple times on vines ect rather than having stuff like potatoes which only grow once but can potentially give you multiples where you have to buy seeds each time until you can get a seed machine. For pure profit that is.
I don't believe its changed but the crops that tend to give multiple per harvest seemed to profit the most based off my very limited testing.
Blueberries, Strawberries and Cranberries?
I've not played in a while.
Yeah best crops are Strawberries for spring (beans if you don't have them), blueberries for summer and cranberries for fall because you only have to buy one lot of seeds and they keep growing + worth a shit ton. And try and preserve/turn into alcohol as many as you can until you get orchard trees for that purpose. It makes the standard ones (not silver or gold) worth a lot more. Especially alcohol.