Farming Youtubers

Is Adrian not doing a video today because he is managing Cork in the hurling?

If so, he'd be better off at home milking the cows!

Definitely 👍🏻. Think there a misprint on it being 130 cow though

, presume that's including calves and heifers.

See Tom Pemberton is in bed with covid and he's getting inundated with messages asking is there going to be any video today. The sense of entitlement is unbelievable in people.

Wonder would it have been cheaper to get just a full new body from another manufacturer.

Bought something brand new that was house nearly 300 days of the year that started to rust after 10 months, (along with another in the parish bought at same time), they wanted to repaint, I said no and demanded a new replacement which they supplied. A product is only as good as the service supplied with it.

No, I went straight to manufacturer, first thing they said was were you chatting to the dealer, I said "no sur he didn't paint it did he?", they changed there tune when I said are ye going to send me down a replacement while its up with ye, was sub 1k purchase.

Farmer Phil finding it hard to get to his 50k subscribers. He is crawling to it over the past 2 months. Still the best variety of all the you tubers and seems to have an interest in producing the videos. Plenty of others just seem to be on it for promoting flashlights and other equipment.

I'm heading to Phils in October to pick my pumpkin :-)

Phil's father did the work on the family farm here years ago.

He genuinely is a genius, one of those guys who just understands something by looking at it and a great conversationalist as well

That I would agree about Phil. He would have being better off going off working independent for two years to learn different ideas and to become more independent. He does at have much influence on the management of the farm. His girl friend is a great asset but she is crazy to be working for the family farm.

one day holiday . Can’t imagine she will have regular time off or wage reviews. She should have kept that independent.

Mc milking it,would be a lot more lost without mammy and daddy then farmer Phil ffs, if the two of them stepped back from that operation and weren't replaced that young lad would be in for some land, its my biggest bugbear where the likes of the above farm are held up as the gold standard for young lads to work towards but they only work due to family labour that isn't going to be their down the line

I think Farmer Phil is trying to diversify and generate alternative income, cutting out the middle man with the farm shop, and also doing something he has an interest in such as the different breeds of hens and the Dexter heifer. It isn't all about making money, some fun and interest has to be had too.

https://youtu.be/qB5NO_g5jGU

Anyone with family labour is in the same boat

we’ll be in that situation here in a couple years

are you doing all the work yourself?

To be fair most experienced good lads operating machinery would bring that home as the boss knows they would be paying more in terms of repairs and extra wear and tear. Are there many big operations that are run solely on hired help? One of Teagasc's farms is all I can think of, and that's all FRS staff, so probably not economically viable. This problem is currently happening over in Britain now with Brexit as they can't get lorry drivers, people for meat factories and other low paid work, as their wages aren't keeping up with inflation, those people are just leaving their jobs and returning home. Businesses are lobbying the government for visas to bring in overseas workers.

I'd say the aim is to keep investing in facilities to reduce workload. MC said in one of his videos that he can feed 400ish cows in 90 mins which is fair going. They probably will have people hired in just to do the milking. As for calving I don't know. Some farmers seem to thing that if they "build it and they will come" attitude to the size of their operation. I wonder will farming lobby groups try to promote the option of suckler/beef farmers taking on part time work in the form of milking as an additional source of income, it sounds like something they would come up with.

95% of it, getting burnt out to be fair, trying to get a milker in for next year to do evening milkings and every second/third weekend, its not sustainable the craic I'm at here at all to be honest, only saving grace is all long term debt will be payed of within the next 6 years, if I still need to be doing the hours I'm at now ill rent the place out and get a job

All replacement stock are kept on farm, contractor bill would increase by 25k a year if all work was contracted out been done in-house at present, wouldn't dream of outsourcing slurry as half the parish is either down with tb our has had reactors the past few years, if I could get a reliable lad to take the evening milking out of the equation I'd manage but juggling two milkings a day and machinery work in-between plus youngstock is relentless

Well if you have instagram go and look at ifarm's story, he basically says if you've any clever ideas send them on, proceeds to show a flattened bucket handle with a hook bent onto it tied by baling twine to an insulator and tied to a reel of wire.

Anyone who has their head screwed on would just use an insulated gatebreaker.

I’ve no issue with any of them getting discounts and free stuff but just consistent in what you’re saying to ppl

cows pay the bills but will only buy a cheap cubicle mat and buy machinery instead

I watch a few overseas farming channels (not the big outfits) just to see different methods of farming, & often the scenery in the background

Farmer Phil has a bit of variety with the tillage, maize, wholecrop etc, which I wouldn't too familiar with . so if that's on the menu I watch otherwise I scan through the vid.

at this stage all the rest I avoid, would prefer watch/listen to some music from my (misspent) younger years,

Some of us kind of do because we have relations who are easily influenced by these people and might end up spending money on something they recommend. People should be entitled to air their opinions on the youtube channels. Companies are throwing products at them instead of taking out advertising in the IFJ. Everything is great when you get it for free. I don't believe for one minute that Ifarm paid full rrp for that mower and got the stand thrown in. Taking that mower, say he cuts all his silage with it, it will take him over 10years to cover the cost of buying the mower, thats not including operating costs or maintenance, it might seem like I'm criticizing him but that is the reality of buying new machinery.

It is free (costs you nothing to view or upload), there is also a paid version.