Farming Youtubers

was out with a few mates last weekend, bit of a country wide spread on us

one of the lads is up near farmer Phil

he was at the Longford show with the Longford macra and they all went to get a photo with Phil

phil wanted 50€ for the photo Longford macra took with him. Was charging everyone else 10€

what ever about charging others 10€ but macra is a voluntary organisation and it was to help promote a rural organisation. Asking for 50€ is a bit shite imo

Turning into a mini tom Pemberton by the sounds of it, you'd of liked to think he was better than that but how and ever, playing the poor mouth when pulling the above won't wash for long

I've a feeling he'll be along soon to set the record straight on this.

Where does one start.

firstly yes Sammy from lucky days was over on the farm done a bit of filming while I was mowing had a bit of craic and made a dance tik tok. Never was money offered or mentioned for doing the collaboration, to me it was a bit of craic and exposure to her audience.

secondly and I’m absolutely livid about this is this shite I’m charging money for pictures. I’ve never ever in the 100s if not 1000s of pictures I’ve taken with people, company’s or organisations ever looked or asked for money not from the random person that stopped me in the car park in the shopping centre in templemore to the countless people I’ve met at shows.

im **** livid whatever about saying my farm is shite or machinery are **** or my cattle or **** or everything about me is shite this **** **** really gets under my skin

ive always viewed it as the least I can do for the support I receive on my socials and it also increases my exposure if shared online to people who may not of heard of me.

Longford macra never came over to me the day of the show but here’s the picture I took with south Longford macra the day of Longford ploughing match foc!!!

Most of it is jealousy and or ignorance. Keyboard warrior stuff.

Silly rumours can start with someone saying “he should charge a tenner for the photos” and the next lad changes it to “he charges a tenner for the photos”.

Dont listen to them Phil, you plenty of genuinely interested viewers here.

Thurles🤦‍♂️

Bunch of mucksavages anyway. 🤣

must have been a willy wavers get together

Looks like it

Haha yeah lad a bunch of bum buddies get together to bitch about a lad on YouTube

I only said what I was told, wasn’t the root of it

but yes I am sorry for spreading misinformation

Wonder how much more lies and were told. Some buddy telling you sh1t like that especially as he was from near Farmer Phil. Must have serious issues with his own life.

Was disappointed when I saw your post as I knew it was untrue.

Do you remember years ago, maybe the 90’s, ettg was a bit more like some of the YouTubers now, as in it showed a bit on the ins and outs of everyday working farms. It went down the road of countyfile in the uk since.

but you made a good point, the more exposures these farming YouTubers get to the general public the better. Wouldn’t it be great if ettg had a selection of 3-4 farmers and did a ten min segment on one of them every week, rotating them every week. Might be a bit late in the day for rte to do that though!

im more of a live let live kinda guy, but it’s great to see rte getting the grilling at the moment. See they published the figures for the top 100 and the salary one hundred on the list was over 100k. Even that wouldn’t annoy me too much if they made good content instead of re runs of the usuals and other crap. It was some gravy train while it lasted and it hand some amount of passengers!

finally, I’m glad to came on to defend yourself @farmerphil135 . I don’t think many believed it but it’s good to nip it in the bud. I keep saying to friends how I admire how much your place has progressed since I started watching you first, after which you said you had a terrible couple of years.

keep up the good work and onwards and upwards

Absolute begrudgers, find it hard to believe someone would believe it enough to carry it here, hopefully they'll also correct the ones they passed it on to in the local pubs as well

You wont be allowed say that on Ear to the Ground. Poor Darragh will get flustered.