Farming Youtubers

Fair play for coming on and giving your opinion Phil. I would have been critical as to why you kept so much vintage stuff before but can see you have a plan now to build a bit of an attraction with the farm shop etc so can see the reasoning. I have a few questions:

1: For the Dairy to Beef enterprise is all feed homegrown?.

2: Is there any part of the contracting business etc that you particularily dislike?.

3: Do your family mind being on youtube?.

4: How long did it take for you to build a bit of a following on Youtube? Were you plugging away a long while before it picked up momentum?.

5: Would be very interested in a video on what kit you use and how you edit the videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uNiTuxIYvQ Very informative video for anyone into sheep. Really enjoying this lads videos.

yes and a good bit along with it but thats only counting the hours editing 12 videos a month at roughly 2.5 hours a video not including filming as i havent a clue how to add that up as i film around working.

as some people were pointing out why do i bother make time to video what im at if im soo busy, thats why, ive built my channel to the point where it provides me with a good income which has allowed me to buy the 3690 and the big square baler and going forward itll allow me to invest in the farm and the machinery much like what tom Pemberton has done in the last year or so.

yes weve found the cattle on the slats cant be beat when it comes to avdwg, we put it down to the fact that we often bed the cattle on the peat with straw to stretch the load of peat and that the cattle eat most of the straw, we are going to be putting the straw blower going to see if it makes a difference as the cattle shouldnt be able to eat as much of the straw

no mats we looked into it and most people complained of cattle being dirty as some of the rubber mats for the slats leave a narrower gap in the slate for the slurry to get through

ive had the odd slide or runt into fencing or what not but never anything that could of been a total rite off. tho my father lost the jag on a hill and slid down into a hedge but got it out handy and didnt do any damage, years ago when the 699 was on the pipes they were spreading a step hillside when the 699 took off down the hill went about 100 yards before enough pipe was behind it to swing her round and stop her

no bank or lender will even consider lending me money off the back of my YouTube earnings because they don’t view it as secure income. I think I’ve tried them all.

fair play I know the feeling. I’m 5 years at home now. This winter I’m hoping to

Yes once it’s a 21 spline 1000 speed. We have a 21 spline 540 speed. Thanks

Hi @farmerphil135 . I recently got a drone and have started putting up a few videos to chronicle what I'm at. No intentions yet of doing commentry or anything for the moment as I work full time off farm and have enough going on. Can you recommend a good editing software? I find the free one on windows tediously slow but does the job for the few videos I've done so far.

@farmerphil135 does that farmer strip graze those big paddocks?

Would you consider installing a swinging jib and electric hoist in the workshop? Would save having to bring over the teleporter.

Have you thought about having a stand at some agri shows next year, Tullamore or the ploughing maybe?

I movies is hard bet, simple and straight forward and will do nearly everything ive needed it to do but you need a mac to have it. i used to use vegas pro 14 and it could do far more than i ever needed but was a bit cumbersome and let me down more times.

also top tip on growing a channel is consistency of uploads, having a schedule so people know when to expect a video but it does put on the pressure to have something to show

i have yes a few handy jobs nothing major but a good bit of the time its someone asking how far am i wiling to travel😂 best one was someone wondering would i go to limerick to pipe😂 tho weve had issues with other people/contractors spreading rumors about what ive said/shown in videos trying to take work from us

yes and no, we avoid putting the ones with the largest horns in the locking barriers as they can be troublesome and in the bottom shed the drinkers are outside through holes and weve to keep one blocked off as the hole is too small, apart from the odd sore eye never had an bull id call injured from a horn. we do have to be carefull when working them in the crush

the reason for videos getting longer and longer is due to youtubes algorithms as youtube promotes longer videos with longer watch times . the sweet spot seems to be 20-25 mins tho longer videos will do just as well view wise but will have a lower viewer duration, tho videos under 20 mins will get less views and under 15 mins 9 times out of 10 is a disaster for views.

on this point a while back i mentioned in a video how i seen my views drop off a bit and others views also and ye brought it up here. since then my audience retention has went from 38%- 46% to 52%-59% and its not because my content is any more interesting😂ive talked to some other youtubers and theyve seen the same. im pretty certain its done to youtube changing its algorithm

😂😂 tough one, drone footage of the 3690 gets me every time but i think the video of loading the combine is my favourite yet

basically it boils down not enough time to do them all. last year we dehorned a shed in a day and the stress of it on the calves caused us so much grief. lost quite a few and had too many get sick, we asked our vet about it and he basically told us dont dehorn them, i can also see it in my stats that the mortality and sickness rate is higher in calves that are dehorned. thats why were not to bothered about it and also if you think were doing something majorly wrong you can watch a video of how we do it.

video needs to be 8 mins to be monetised and the longer the videos are the better the views tend to be