Farming Youtubers

sk8board

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

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?

Nekarsulm

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.

Danzy

Fred Daly wrote: »

Is it because of covid these channels are getting popular, i am a contractor you get sick of lads when you are harvesting flying drones trying to get you to put a camera in the harvester or tractor for the sound.

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.

einn32

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.

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

funkey_monkey

einn32 wrote: »

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

What's he got now? Did he purchase those mowers?

Danzy

einn32 wrote: »

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

Aye

Danzy

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?

It was the norm down here as well.

funkey_monkey

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

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.

Danzy

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.

White Clover

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.

I haven't watched his channel with over a year. I wondered how good he was. A lot of what he was showing was fairly routine stuff. Anything tricky he used have bother curing. He seemed fixated on iodine and didn't bandage where and when he should have.
He used to go through massive numbers of cows in a day. Bandaging and all that takes time and there's no way anyone would go through cows like he was if he had to put time into the chronic cases that he came across.
Also, i thought a lot of his subscribers weren't farmers, with respect to them, most of them wouldn't know what they're looking at.

AgriLad

I see phil has bought himself a MF 185 square baler. Fair play to him, his hard work is paying off and is a very clever investment.

leoch

How's it a clever investment

AgriLad

leoch wrote: »

How's it a clever investment

Well i supose its not “very clever” i just meant in terms of depreciation it wont lose a whole lot, not many of them about.

leoch

Yea clean looking baler alright agrilad looks well behind the 64

Nekarsulm

leoch wrote: »

How's it a clever investment

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

The Nutty M

There's a fella ,Olly Blogs , doing daily vids i do find interesting. He is running his channel to service the payments on his new Bateman sprayer. He gave rough figures on subscribers/views and that it would be viable with I think 18k subscribers.

Mike Mitchell is on another level, talking about field size in sections (640 acres), a fendt ideal burning,82ft drills etc.

greenfield21

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

Base price

I came across this video from 2019 from Our Wyoming Life explaining in detail how youtube pays for video content. According to the video it's not as simple as putting up a video that gets thousands of views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfmkpGLAPY

Nekarsulm

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.....

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

Base price

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.

Base price

Base price wrote: »

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.

Very high production values, a real pro, makes sense as he comes from radio

youllbemine

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.

einn32

I see the funky farmer has had someone dump a pile of rubbish on his land. Sickening and it's not the first time.

Diarmuid B

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!

johnnyw20

Diarmuid B wrote: »

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!

I was thinking the exact same. Don’t know who’s worse, the farmer who expects them to go down that lane or the Stewart’s for taking on the job year after year.

A run of a hedge cutter or a jcb to remove that stump would go a long way

Nekarsulm

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

einn32

Diarmuid B wrote: »

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!

He got the mower wedged one year. It's in a video. I don't know how many hours they lost!

Lads like him think things like this is normal hardship is there middle name, i know a big tillage farm near me he was asked why had he two combines not a large one he said for transport monuverability time he works better with the two.

Sheep breeder

einn32 wrote: »

He got the mower wedged one year. It's in a video. I don't know how many hours they lost!

Think it says more about them and the way they work. If they are cutting that field year after year would they not do something about the stump and not waste time having to go and lift the mower in and out with a machine and man wasting time.

cal naughton

Sheep breeder wrote: »

Think it says more about them and the way they work. If they are cutting that field year after year would they not do something about the stump and not waste time having to go and lift the mower in and out with a machine and man wasting time.

Makes for a great video though which it's all about!

White Clover

Sheep breeder wrote: »

Think it says more about them and the way they work. If they are cutting that field year after year would they not do something about the stump and not waste time having to go and lift the mower in and out with a machine and man wasting time.

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!

Bullocks

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.

cjpm

Bullocks wrote: »

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

For sure. They aren’t afraid of a bit of rooting and tearing but they sure as hell aren’t idiots. There is no way Father Phil wouldn’t have that cut back if it was possible. ROW I’d imagine and plenty of them have awkard clients along them.

endainoz

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.

Gillespy

It looked a big field at the end of that narrow road so not as easy to turn down. Ten foot trailed mowers are a pain on a lot roads. A nine foot would fly down roads like that.

At least the place where he wrecked the front mower last year was tidied up a bit.

funkey_monkey

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?

White Clover

endainoz wrote: »

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.

Often heard Phil saying that they do all contracting services except hedge cutting. You can be sure there's a valid reason why they haven't sorted that stump and the hedges.

Aravo

endainoz wrote: »

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.

If Phil cut it once you can bet no one would cut hedges there again. That's the problem with ROW's. Most contractors would not go down there and I would not blame them. No need for a teleporter, just say you can't get down

Aravo

White Clover wrote: »

Often heard Phil saying that they do all contracting services except hedge cutting. You can be sure there's a valid reason why they haven't sorted that stump and the hedges.

In all honesty it's not the contractors problem to sort out, unless they are paid to rectify matters

leoch

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

topnotch

Came across a nice little channel today worth a look, called Finnegan’s Farm.

https://youtu.be/QknfbjyMypo

Tileman

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.

Say my name

Been watching the clips from Lucky Hill farm these past few days.

Very smartly done and put together.

It's a lot of his adventures making and using biogas from an ibc tank.

https://youtu.be/IX7jxpsTEeM

Dan and Rachel gingell, teagasc, farmer Phil, Tom pemberton and my favourite was Keane farm life but they have nothing up recently.

dp639

This a great channel on YouTube to watch, its called I Farm We Farm.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvRQN2iIOY82Q1ZsuV2OEA

Tileman

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.

einn32

I see farmer Phil saying his views aren't as good the last few weeks and he noticed it on other farming channels too.