Farming Youtubers

davidk1394 · 18-11-2020 11:02pm

emaherx wrote: »

I think you could find a couple of followers here. We're a nosey bunch

I'll keep ye posted.

timple23 · 18-11-2020 11:27pm

Jb1989 wrote: »

All social media is going the same way, a lot of it is down to how many likes they get for spouting nonsense.

There was a popularish account on instagram who put up a photo of a new shed they were building on their story.

About a week later they won one of those like share competitions, for an product that would be used in the shed.

In my opinion it was no coincidence and that company chose them in the hope that they fully fit out the new shed with their product.

TheQuietBeatle · 18-11-2020 11:44pm

Okportugal is based in Central Portugal but great content.

Tileman · 19-11-2020 12:11am

TheQuietBeatle wrote: »

Okportugal is based in Central Portugal but great content.

I like farmer Phil he seems a genuine lad and a hard worker. As others have said the family gave great interaction. However the father is starting to steal the show now. Young Phil just repeats what the father says when they are reviewing anything. Also it comes across as he has no power or decision making what do ever. It’s whatever the father says. It’s meant to be a farm partnership.

He has good potential for that show but he is too quick to endorse any product. The competition for rock salt or the website provider. I’d say he will do well out of the channel though and more power to him as he shows it like it’s is. Himself and the girlfriend are a great match. I enjoy the long videos. The harvest ones were very good.

I farm we farm drives me mad with his click bait headlines. As others have said the silage on on Sunday was a disgrace . Pure tabloid headline. Otherwise good and enjoyable.

Gerry 6420 is ok. Can’t warm to him the Same as others. Seems to be in it more for the money than a genuine interest in the channel. How the fcuk he is buying all the new equipment and going plumbing twice a week I don’t know. Maintains his equipment very well.

mengele · 19-11-2020 12:23am

The worst I have come across is olly farms. He drives me nuts.

I like the funky farmer too. He tells it how it is and battles away with what machinery he has. Always gets on with what he has rather than saying I'm going to buy this that and the other next year like others do. You can only buy so much in a year in a farm. I do think he skimps a bit with the fertilizer though haha.

Injuryprone · 19-11-2020 1:43am

I like Phil's channel. He's got so many irons in the fire, it helps keep things fresh. The only bit of advice I'd give him is to cut out the swearing. Even bleep over it. While it's no issue for me, I'm sure he's losing a fair amount of his audience due to it, ie young kids where the parents stick it on the smart TV to keep them occupied for half and hour. You'd see Tom P referring to messages he gets from these types from time to time. I'd say this audience would be a big player in the 'merch' sales

Instagram is fairly good too for farming content. You tend to get a less polished, more real output on it. The advertisers are active on it as well Eg I recently started following Mairead Barron, new to farming in Waterford and I see she's after getting a hook-up with Magenta. She did a few vids showing how she uses their snap test and to be fair, it was informative as I haven't used them before.

GrasstoMilk · 19-11-2020 7:24am

Injuryprone wrote: »

I like Phil's channel. He's got so many irons in the fire, it helps keep things fresh. The only bit of advice I'd give him is to cut out the swearing. Even bleep over it. While it's no issue for me, I'm sure he's losing a fair amount of his audience due to it, ie young kids where the parents stick it on the smart TV to keep them occupied for half and hour. You'd see Tom P referring to messages he gets from these types from time to time. I'd say this audience would be a big player in the 'merch' sales

Instagram is fairly good too for farming content. You tend to get a less polished, more real output on it. The advertisers are active on it as well Eg I recently started following Mairead Barron, new to farming in Waterford and I see she's after getting a hook-up with Magenta. She did a few vids showing how she uses their snap test and to be fair, it was informative as I haven't used them before.

Instagram is good, good to see the real farming as you say
I had to unfollow that girl and another one from up the country, couldn't listen to the BS they were spewing about themselves and all the happy clappy fan club stuff they go on about themselves and others plus the sly posts and stories trying to run down other Instagramers who were stealing the lime light from them

gav86 · 19-11-2020 10:17am

ShlugMurphy wrote: »

Absolutely not true. IFarm wefarm would be very little editing.

All you'd need is your camera, once you have the footage, plug into your computer and load into a video editor. Trim the videos (basically not needed for most vids of iFarm wefarm), edit a thumbnail if you want it to look snazzy and you're away.

I would say Ifarm Wefarm takes him plenty of time but maybe not the editing, more the setting up of the camera's to get all the angles etc. I know he has a few go-pros but still would make the job he is doing take a fair bit longer.
Father Phil fairly gives out about this..

twin_beacon · 20-11-2020 11:58am

ShlugMurphy wrote: »

Buying new gear every second week. If they were hard up they wouldn't be buying a new agitator just because!

New to them, but not new!

ShlugMurphy wrote: »

He said himself they didn't need a new one, just someone traded it in and they decided to buy it.

I wouldn't see a problem with that, considering its a second hand agitator (not really an expensive item in the grand scheme of things), and the amount of slurry work they do. Handy to have a second one sitting in the yard if one breaks and you are under pressure.

I think people are being a bit harsh on some of the youtubers, if you don't like them, then don't watch them. Gerry6420 was reported for spreading slurry during a yellow rain warning, I believe the person that reported him was in the south of the country where there was a rain warning, but there was no rain where Gerry was spreading. I thought for the last year or so, that there are people watching the videos waiting for them to slip up (or slip up in their eyes) on something, and report them.

I loved the Big Bud restoration by Welker Farms, and the restoration of Gerry's 2850. It would be great if Phil could do a series of the 6290 in the shed being restored.
Just to add, the Welker Farms video where "Leg Arms" had his arm broken was a tough watch, very lucky man.

jd_12345 · 20-11-2020 7:21pm

I enjoy most of the farming YouTubers. In fairness they all do things differently and often get slack for going against the status quo.

Imo IFarmWeFarm is a great example of what Irish dairy farms represent to the consumer. No massive herds of cows, the place spotless and a real passion for his job. His videos are excellent and really good quality but the click bait he is using now is sickening. The silage waste, loader drama, etc. But an excellent channel that tries to show people how he goes about things.

I'm really enjoying watching back the positive farmers conferences atm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzBnNVPPUcr-Evi77u0iyw especially Shinagh and Pat Hickey.

Farmer Phil has a serious dedication to the whole thing but it looks like he almost has to. By the sounds of things he's getting very little out of the farm and the contracting is about the only thing bringing in any sort of cash. Calf mortality seems to be a big issue as they're so busy with slurry and mixing so many calves. They look like people that are racing around at 1000mph to get everything done and progress seems slow - i.e. it seems impossible for them to make any investment. I know beef is bad atm but maybe management isn't the greatest. They put up something recently about the bulls being only about (450kg/500kg). He also mentioned that even though they could more than justify having his girlfriend work on the farm they wouldn't be able to eat (i.e. she's the only person bringing in regular cash) From what I can make out Phil's main income is YouTube and that's why it has to work. Anybody looking to come home farming after school should take a good look at Phil's 13/14 hour days and realize that they should try something else fr a couple of years anyway! Last year during the winter himself anf the girlfriend booked their annual holiday in Centre Parks over Xmas and Phil had to go home for 5/6 hours each day to feed cattle etc. That to me sounds like hardship! Fantastic hard workers that maybe didn't think out how to justify having him at home!

20-11-2020 7:50pm

mengele wrote: »

The worst I have come across is olly farms. He drives me nuts.

I like the funky farmer too. He tells it how it is and battles away with what machinery he has. Always gets on with what he has rather than saying I'm going to buy this that and the other next year like others do. You can only buy so much in a year in a farm. I do think he skimps a bit with the fertilizer though haha.

Olly farms he is a disaster if there was work in the bed he would sleep on the floor, the funky farmer is real life struggles on a medium dairy farm. Tom Pemberton and the ginger i enjoy as well ginger sniffing eating the grass silage, as regards farmer phil he puts himself in for a lot of hardship the two older boys will never change and as for the younger brother should be made do more like feeding the cattle last christmas that was messing i could imagine what would be said to me if i had to come home everyday from a break hardship is there game.

tractorporn · 20-11-2020 9:22pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

I read all the comments. I think I have enough going on at the moment without taking that on, I won't rule it out altogether but I might set up an Instagram page to get me going if any of ye are on Instagram

I have an Instagram page set up for the farm just for sharing stuff and I find that the best platform to get my point across. One thing I've noticed lately is the amount of promotion some farm accounts are doing, especially two sisters who have a farming page, every second post is like an add for something they have gotten for nothing. Helps that they are two good looking girls I suppose.

Lady Haywire · 20-11-2020 10:02pm

I don't have the patience for watching Youtube much but must check a few of these out.
Tried Instagram, not for me I don't think, too many posed pics and tagging companies of what they're wearing or working with. Give me a bit of muck and dirt and people having the craic any day, rather than filters and perfect pictures. Maybe I'm following the wrong people though!

lab man · 20-11-2020 10:02pm

jd_12345 wrote: »

I enjoy most of the farming YouTubers. In fairness they all do things differently and often get slack for going against the status quo.

Imo IFarmWeFarm is a great example of what Irish dairy farms represent to the consumer. No massive herds of cows, the place spotless and a real passion for his job. His videos are excellent and really good quality but the click bait he is using now is sickening. The silage waste, loader drama, etc. But an excellent channel that tries to show people how he goes about things.

I'm really enjoying watching back the positive farmers conferences atm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmzBnNVPPUcr-Evi77u0iyw especially Shinagh and Pat Hickey.

Farmer Phil has a serious dedication to the whole thing but it looks like he almost has to. By the sounds of things he's getting very little out of the farm and the contracting is about the only thing bringing in any sort of cash. Calf mortality seems to be a big issue as they're so busy with slurry and mixing so many calves. They look like people that are racing around at 1000mph to get everything done and progress seems slow - i.e. it seems impossible for them to make any investment. I know beef is bad atm but maybe management isn't the greatest. They put up something recently about the bulls being only about (450kg/500kg). He also mentioned that even though they could more than justify having his girlfriend work on the farm they wouldn't be able to eat (i.e. she's the only person bringing in regular cash) From what I can make out Phil's main income is YouTube and that's why it has to work. Anybody looking to come home farming after school should take a good look at Phil's 13/14 hour days and realize that they should try something else fr a couple of years anyway! Last year during the winter himself anf the girlfriend booked their annual holiday in Centre Parks over Xmas and Phil had to go home for 5/6 hours each day to feed cattle etc. That to me sounds like hardship! Fantastic hard workers that maybe didn't think out how to justify having him at home!

The one thing I see about Phil's farm is how badly its laid out they seem to be going back and forth to low sheds all the time and a guy with 28/30 tractors should have a serious machine shed with the price of gear

jaymla627 · 20-11-2020 11:32pm

lab man wrote: »

The one thing I see about Phil's farm is how badly its laid out they seem to be going back and forth to low sheds all the time and a guy with 28/30 tractors should have a serious machine shed with the price of gear

Their backstory on their tb issues that where ongoing for 5 plus years and I'd say a modest enough sfp given they where dairy farming and sucklers in the reference years where they where in the middle of getting depopulated with tb, explains alot to be fair, its handy to criticize a place but in all honesty the difference between been profitable and having a good clean yard and our struggling at beef is usually down to how large our small the sfp is

3 the square · 20-11-2020 11:43pm

Dont think it's that badly laided out myself he can house 500 cattle , not bad
I like him and he looks to have a good woman with him to help him out..

ruwithme · 20-11-2020 11:49pm

Good women should be kept in the house.
Other wise you'll have to let them off early to go in &make the dinner e.t.c

CloughCasey1 · 20-11-2020 11:51pm

ruwithme wrote: »

Good women should be kept in the house.
Other wise you'll have to let them off early to go in &make the dinner e.t.c

Wheres me popcorn!

Nekarsulm · 21-11-2020 1:05pm

https://youtu.be/UXWKEbP7A50

Watched a few from this woman, down to earth stuff too.

Odelay · 21-11-2020 6:57pm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

https://youtu.be/UXWKEbP7A50

Watched a few from this woman, down to earth stuff too.

She knows her stuff too. Well able to work as well.

DukeCaboom · 21-11-2020 7:24pm

Odelay wrote: »

She knows her stuff too. Well able to work as well.

Course she can work.... She's from the West!!

Odelay · 21-11-2020 8:43pm

I see an old friend from here is active on his youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqzxdz9jeio

MrGreendragon3

Donald Trump · 21-11-2020 9:04pm

Odelay wrote: »

I see an old friend from here is active on his youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqzxdz9jeio

MrGreendragon3

Great job. Looks new. I wonder how much it would cost to do that in terms of materials/parts.

He might not get another 20 years out if it though with the oul' splashplate. For slurry anyway. Would you get a retrofit on that?

21-11-2020 11:09pm

jd_12345 wrote: »

Farmer Phil has a serious dedication to the whole thing but it looks like he almost has to. By the sounds of things he's getting very little out of the farm and the contracting is about the only thing bringing in any sort of cash. Calf mortality seems to be a big issue as they're so busy with slurry and mixing so many calves. They look like people that are racing around at 1000mph to get everything done and progress seems slow - i.e. it seems impossible for them to make any investment. I know beef is bad atm but maybe management isn't the greatest. They put up something recently about the bulls being only about (450kg/500kg). He also mentioned that even though they could more than justify having his girlfriend work on the farm they wouldn't be able to eat (i.e. she's the only person bringing in regular cash) From what I can make out Phil's main income is YouTube and that's why it has to work. Anybody looking to come home farming after school should take a good look at Phil's 13/14 hour days and realize that they should try something else fr a couple of years anyway! Last year during the winter himself anf the girlfriend booked their annual holiday in Centre Parks over Xmas and Phil had to go home for 5/6 hours each day to feed cattle etc. That to me sounds like hardship! Fantastic hard workers that maybe didn't think out how to justify having him at home!

The key words I take from your post that I agree with are dedication, poor return on investment and busy.

I’m going to sound harsh here but there is an element of busy fools. One of his videos has him driving 2 hrs to spread slurry for a customer. Their plant is old and worn so inevitably trouble strikes probably ruling out a few weeks profit for them to get back up and running. They need to take a look at their operation and remove the rose tinted Massey glasses and run their farm like a business not a hobby. What are they trying to achieve, contracting is really tough and being the jack of all trades contractor(silage, maize, tillage harvesting, sowing, slurry) who is trying to balance their own farm and at the same time be on call for every and any kind of agri job has long passed. Their geographic area doesn’t look to help either with small fields and not ideal weather. This is in Phils interests to ensure that in turn there is a farm capable of making a living to be passed onto him. Saying that fair play to him and his father for bearing all in these videos, decent honest hard working lads.

Anyways from what I can gather Phils father and uncle are involved together. 3 regular good wages (plus uncles family) from a farm is a big overhead before bringing your casual staff into it.

GrasstoMilk · 23-11-2020 9:01pm

https://www.stewartfamilyfarmlongford.com/calf-to-beef

FarmerPhill setting up a farm shop by the look of it

Dinzee Conlee · 23-11-2020 9:26pm

Watching the sheep game lately

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCekKN_0816MX4XIvom9bmEw

Your man doing it comes across well...

White Clover · 23-11-2020 9:27pm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Watching the sheep game lately

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCekKN_0816MX4XIvom9bmEw

Your man doing it comes across well...

I think he's very good too.

Tileman · 23-11-2020 11:25pm

White Clover wrote: »

I think he's very good too.

Yea he is good presenter .

minerleague · 24-11-2020 2:47pm

CowfarmerDan I find good, do a lot of their own work With the added attraction of vintage Massey gear. Find anything over 8- 10 mins is too long but a lot of them do it

Odelay · 25-11-2020 9:15pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJwXrKVfpHk

This guy has a small audience, for now, but interesting videos and a lovely honest way of talking.

Odelay · 25-11-2020 9:15pm

Out of interest, anyone here with their own youtube channels?

Gillespy · 25-11-2020 9:22pm

Odelay wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJwXrKVfpHk

This guy has a small audience, for now, but interesting videos and a lovely honest way of talking.

He's growing nicely. I don't know him but I recognize a lot of those roads and fields. Shock to the system watching farmers on youtube that sound like yourself.:D

Mehaffey1 · 25-11-2020 9:22pm

Subscribed to Gerry6420 last week and have been enjoying the content. He has a drone up and going filming overhead for some bits which is very cool.

Been watching 10th Generation Dairyman for a good while too. Nice change of perspective for me with him working a very intensive system in comparison to what I'm used to.

jetfiremuck · 25-11-2020 9:33pm

Larsen farms .....quality equipment and care
Onelonley farmer. Hay maker 3 x Krone balers
Western truck and tractor..........donkey work on equipment trucks tractors loaders.

jaymla627 · 25-11-2020 9:39pm

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Subscribed to Gerry6420 last week and have been enjoying the content. He has a drone up and going filming overhead for some bits which is very cool.

Been watching 10th Generation Dairyman for a good while too. Nice change of perspective for me with him working a very intensive system in comparison to what I'm used to.

Saskdutch kid is better again them 10th generation dairyman, it's some set-up, its gas how while their intensive systems the labour is their that its alot more relaxed pace and less pressure then 99% of typical one man band irish farms

Mehaffey1 · 25-11-2020 9:46pm

jaymla627 wrote: »

Saskdutch kid is better again them 10th generation dairyman, it's some set-up, its gas how while their intensive systems the labour is their that its alot more relaxed pace and less pressure then 99% of typical one man band irish farms

Gave him a subscribe there and will check him. Yeah their attitude is we'll give it our best shot if it doesn't work out then so be it or we'll find another solution down the road.

Others saying about Farm Flix, I quite enjoy it but probably wouldn't go buying a subscription, just don't have the justification with so much content for free on YouTube TikTok etc. Have no bother understanding them since went to school with a few of them haha

orm0nd · 26-11-2020 3:59pm

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Watching the sheep game lately

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCekKN_0816MX4XIvom9bmEw

Your man doing it comes across well...

he done some job on the Case, he posts on another forum as well, seems to be a sound bloke

White Clover · 26-11-2020 4:54pm

Gillespy wrote: »

He's growing nicely. I don't know him but I recognize a lot of those roads and fields. Shock to the system watching farmers on youtube that sound like yourself.:D

He posts here too and an odd time in the weather forum but it has been a while since I last saw him around this place.

timple23 · 26-11-2020 7:22pm

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Others saying about Farm Flix, I quite enjoy it but probably wouldn't go buying a subscription, just don't have the justification with so much content for free on YouTube TikTok etc. Have no bother understanding them since went to school with a few of them haha

Have the subscription. Some of the videos are way better than anything Grassmen has ever produced. You can get a free 24hr trial with them. Hard to really judge them this year because of virus. Any idea why John and Donkey split?

memorystick · 04-12-2020 9:26pm

This came up on my feed.

https://youtu.be/8Tw4-Y6pr3w

K.G. · 04-12-2020 10:00pm

memorystick wrote: »

This came up on my feed.

https://youtu.be/8Tw4-Y6pr3w

It would be handy for publicans too

djmc · 04-12-2020 11:44pm

Odelay wrote: »

Out of interest, anyone here with their own youtube channels?

I dabbled a bit just to see how it works but did not do anything serious yet
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDnL9cGFSUth0vF-BQXVuQ

Reggie. · 05-12-2020 8:50am

timple23 wrote: »

Have the subscription. Some of the videos are way better than anything Grassmen has ever produced. You can get a free 24hr trial with them. Hard to really judge them this year because of virus. Any idea why John and Donkey split?

Supposed to be back in the day john wanted the grassmen to be done like farmflix is with all aspects of farming where donkey wanted to keep it silage only. Grassmen has changed since mind you

leoch · 05-12-2020 9:54am

Donkey is hard to listen to some times

Reggie. · 05-12-2020 11:00am

leoch wrote: »

Donkey is hard to listen to some times

I think he has annoyed few manufacturers also by nearly demanding thier latest machines to showcase on the channel or to get them for a few months

jaymla627 · 05-12-2020 11:45am

Reggie. wrote: »

I think he has annoyed few manufacturers also by nearly demanding thier latest machines to showcase on the channel or to get them for a few months

The video of them wrecking the jf harvester and sniggering away to themselves said it all really, I wouldn't give that lad the lend of a shovel and I'd say alot of machine manufactures are coming around to that thinking too

vincenzolorenzo · 07-12-2020 10:25am

Odelay wrote: »

Out of interest, anyone here with their own youtube channels?

Very different to the quality of channels nowadays and definitely no talking to the camera but a (very small) claim to fame of mine is that I was the first around to put up silage videos on youtube, in 2006!

roosterman71 · 07-12-2020 11:04am

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

Very different to the quality of channels nowadays and definitely no talking to the camera but a (very small) claim to fame of mine is that I was the first around to put up silage videos on youtube, in 2006!

The still picture looks like your about to introduce that mower to an ESB pole!

heldel00 · 07-12-2020 11:10am

I haven't read through the whole forum yet but just wondering are these farming youtubers suitable for children??
We have a tractor/ farming mad 5 year old and he watches farming simulator on YouTube but i know he'd love some real-life videos.

roosterman71 · 07-12-2020 11:14am

heldel00 wrote: »

I haven't read through the whole forum yet but just wondering are these farming youtubers suitable for children??
We have a tractor/ farming mad 5 year old and he watches farming simulator on YouTube but i know he'd love some real-life videos.

Most are I'd say alright.

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