Farming Youtubers

timple23 wrote: »

How lucrative could it be for them? At most lads are getting demos or a few small freebies. Tom Pem is presenting some type of tractor driving show soon, don't see much scope for lads here to make a wage out of it other than youtube money/merch.

I see a guy doing a video that had 15m views and stated it made him 33k usd, by that calculation if someone's video hits 100k views they will make 222usd, not a lot of money.

The US market is many times larger than elsewhere for $$ per million views.
Depending on what can be advertised on your videos, it can be $5-7k per million views for something very specific/expensive that fits your audience perfectly - but $2k per million views is more normal if you’ve a wide audience (farming would be a wide audience, or a car channel etc etc).
Outside of the US, you’d do really well to make €1k/million views, as the marketing team spending budgets are smaller compared to the US consumer market - and any non-US YouTuber looking to live off the channel would be doing their own paid promotions within the vid, again usually for something relevant to the audience.

EDIT: actually, here’s a great example of a YouTube channel with well targeted content -
A couple of Fendt Ideal combines were parked in the new Massey dealer here at Blakescross a few weeks ago and when I googled Ideal combine videos, the top results were Mike Mitchell videos using 7 or 8 Ideals in Canada, ahead even of Fendt’s own content.
He does around 2-4m views a month according to socialblade

minerleague wrote: »

Just watching tom pemberton and new sheds he's building. talking of a new silage pit but putting a huge roof over it. Why is this so common in UK and northern Ire does anyone know? Can understand it for self-feed setups but not many at that now i assume?

Was very common for self feed, as you say.
Also , on our place anyway, hay and straw was built on top of the silage, and hopefully was used at a slightly quicker rate than the silage was.
As most people ended up with several covered silage pit, as one was emptied there were usually batches of calves or ewes to go into it.
This was at the time when 60 foot by 30 was a big, big pit.

einn32 wrote: »

Hoof GP? I see Farmer Phil has purchased a new machine!

Aye

Danzy wrote: »

There is a lad in Scotland who pares cow hoofs. He has gone up to 850k subscribers since Covid started, was in the hundreds in 2019.

There was a fella in the states who was doing hoof trimming too - Happy Hoof something. I think his channel is Alset now. He was getting lots grief about his technique.
Hoof GP is insanely popular. I think at one time Hoof GP said something off about him gluing hoofs directly. He then seemed to get a lot of abuse and was talking then about quitting the channel and doing music. Looks like he has gone that way. I don't think he has much of an opinion of Hoof GP.

Gillespy wrote: »

Why would any farmer allow permission to film the awful feet The Hoof GP gets to treat. Wouldnt you be ashamed to let an animal go that far before calling the vet or hoof man in. He's another one for silly thumbnails and baiting titles I don't watch anymore.

The fellow who never uses bait titles, the silly thumbnails to catch attention are pure and appreciated by their 6 followers.

The places he goes to tend to be very large and I'd say cows are on concrete more than ones here.

When you have a 1000 cows you are well past caring about being ashamed.

leoch wrote: »

How's it a clever investment

Unless he takes an iron gate post into it and destroys it, it'll never depreciate.

greenfield21 wrote: »

Whistlindiesel is a channel I found recently which is good for reviews/durability tests and modified vehicles.

Couldn't agree with you there...
I think he's an idiot of the first order.....

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdgQJHgaj8c this guy is good

He is a first time farmer with a corporate background in radio. He and his wife took over the running of the ranch after her stepfather died and left it to her mother.

Just remembered there was a channel run by a lad from Dublin but he was farming with a relation at the weekends in Cavan iirc. Anyone any idea what channel it might be or if it's still on the go. I remember it was interesting seeing as he was from the capital.

Just seen Farmer Phils new video there, scandalous to see the narrow lane way he had to try squeeze down with the two mowers. Surely they should refuse the work unless the farmer has the lane widened or at least the branches cut back? And then the tree stump sticking out of the ground that they need a teleporter to lift the mower over.. shouldn’t go anywhere near that job until they’re sorted for them!

Came across a lad witha channel called Franklin County Forage, which seems interesting.

White Clover wrote: »

We don't know all the details. The farmer they're cutting for may only have a ROW along that route.
You're a great man for knocking lads!

I'd agree. There's usually a reason for everything, might'nt be a good one but a reason all the same.

You'd nearly think they'd offer to run the hedgetrimmer on it for free just to make it handier. I guess the fancy pottinger one they had on hire wouldn't have as much of a problem though. There was fair pressure on his mirrors too.

White Clover wrote: »

We don't know all the details. The farmer they're cutting for may only have a ROW along that route.
You're a great man for knocking lads!

If it was a ROW then does he have right to straightforward access to the land without risk of damage to vehicles?

Maybe it's a case of they didn't want to turn it away as they don't have a lot of customers

Starting watch just a few acres recently. American guy who speaks very well on the threat to society by the commercial toon of factory farming. Very good communicator. Good old vintage stuff too.

Ah that’s out a couple of years now. Is one of the main 3 in Ireland along with farmer Phil and gerry 6420. It use to be some thing different but is just becoming the same as the rest with big tractor and doing silage videos and machinery demos. In the beginning he had something different to offer where he was showing how a smallish family farm ran.