Farming Youtubers

You can’t go by dung deal for average weight of dairy beef, the average weight per age over a scales in a mart up and down the country is a more accurate barometer, in the video some them heifers were different sizes and age also, what age were the bigger heifers.

Don’t want to be critical Phil. I like your channel and how you’ve carved out another income stream from it

but they’re behind target and its going to impact on there kill out this time next year

when you’re relying on those animals to make a profit for 2 enterprises they really need to be best they can be and you should be following target weights for the breed, not going by DoneDeal weights

again don’t want it to seem like I’m putting you down, you’ve a lot going on but they’re very important stock particularly when you’re relying on them to make a profit on your grains and those weaklings being behind weight going into the shed and still being behind now is certainly impacting carcass weight

Yea and the daewoo would be a great post or strainer knocker aswell for fencing

Speaking of Tom P, He's not happy with the fiberglass flaking off the corners of the parlour. It was an absolutely shocking finished, Spoiled the new parlour

What is the story with fibre glassing walls? Is it a UK regulation? Any parlour I've seen in Ireland just had plastered unpainted walls. I thought the fibre glass laid over un plastered walls looked dreadful from day 1

Well in that case spending 8.5k on what he got seems mental. Plaster and a few buckets of paint would have been twice the job

He's a weird chap to make out, probably has the guts of 700k spent on the yard/parlour and it still looks like a bombsite, clamping the maize in the dung pit really showed what kind of clown show they are running, will do the summer pricking around with pig reels and temporary fences and play the poor mouth when the farm would of been paddocked/watered and roadways in for what money he's wasted on gimmicks

In defence of Tom P, we are farming similar soil to him and while it gets very hard in summer, you're dealing with a wet muddy clay in wet weather. It could be up to 20 feet deep of a blue mud with no subsoil.

The water table might be only a foot under foot at times. This is wjy he never put in a slatted tank. Roads are also next to impossible to maintain. The just keep sinking into the ground.

Plus I suspect he's getting stuff for half nothing in exchange for free advertising.

Farmer Phils outfit is the same pricking about with electric fences surly posts strainers and wire is a much better job and time saving × 100

It's should be a compulsory course in ag collage re been able to fence properly, was my number one goal here to have the entire farm fenced with high tensile wire and strainers/rachet tensioners etc, finally got the last bit tightened up this year some sense of satisfaction/peace of mind putting livestock into a field knowing they'll stay put 99% of the time bar a fence left off etc

Is the scraper tractor not a real English thing? The way the beef sheds are done aswell on a few places you'd see on YouTube. Bedded in the back and scraping out at the feed passage. Maybe straw is more plentiful but I can never understand the work that goes into it.

I made mistakes building here but I think he should have put in more units when he was at it. He seen the finish on the parlour walls in another parlour. Still mad money. In fairness he is after spending a lot of money to better the yard. Grasstec was doing something with him on paddocks. I'm not sure how I'd manage that ground and water everywhere tbf

It was thought to me when I did my stint. But I really think it’s in you to try be tidy or it’s not.

It should be a compulsory course to teach old fellas that the wire should get a run of grazon 90. The odd time.

How many times have I helped lads fencing only to find a few years later bushes and briars have knocked the posts and wire. And the dumbass wondering why they had no shock

Not been smart, if you valued your own time you'd fence the place once, and just do it right, pricking around with mild steel wire and pencil stakes every year....

2 men with a stake driver, would pound the world of stakes in a day, re cost, go with cheap 4 inch softwood stakes, and strainers, if your worried about losing the lease on rented land, it's a pet hate of mine to be fair, the ole chap always thought along your lines, now he's seen the benefits of doing a fence once and doing it right he'd happily spend a week fencing