Farming Youtubers

How does Balmoral compare to the ploughing?

So it’s more like Tullamore show than the ploughing?

Up yesterday at the show, not as big as Tullamore. More like the big county shows with a good bit of stock. Handy to get around serious in door buildings.

Gone off YouTube lately vids too long and boring with the same thing repeated over and over.still watch grasstec though and a guy with a very small following but brilliant videos , mark mechanical

@GERRY6420 and finnegans had stock videos up today. Well shaped stock from both.

Care to share which video this is referring to? Stopped watching when it was heading the route of Tom P with video titles in capital letters and hand on the head stuff.

That was kind of my take on it too. But I didn't like the good farmer, bad farmer jibe either. We all are. What we are neither good nor bad.

When you go with the "big dairy" you've lost imo and have just fallen into the vegan trap. Then you have to describe all enterprises as big or small. But that won't happen. You know her "big dairy" just describes someone supplying to a coop as use by the vegans. If it was ploughed and put in barley would she be on about "big tillage".

She sees virtue in comparing the two fields. One time it would be an embarrassment. But now in this enviro world and "big dairy" thrown around she sees she may get kudos for doing so.

Personally two field side by side one full of rushes across the fence the other full of clover and lush grass, I think I would be ashamed and really embarrassed if mine was the rushes. Absolutely hate seeing green rushes taking over fields, acres on peat soil giving top money now for them.

I firmly believe acres scheme is a lead into rewetting proposal, leave land low input and grow wild for 5 years with rushes to get 10 out of 10 payments and what not, then this peat soil would be in absolute dire situation come the new agri environment scheme in 5 years some farmers would just take the bait and choose the easy rewetting money and destroy their land value for the sake of some **** EU subsidy.

I started watching Evie Gibbons channel recently and I like the content. Gives a good insight into Dairy farming in the UK. I've gotten a few ideas from seeing what they do.

It does take a bit of thick skin to be a farming YouTuber, particularly a female one. I'm sure everything they do and show is scrutinized so much more. I don't think I'd be able for the mental abuse myself anyway. I throw the odd post on Instagram but that's about it.

The youtubers I'm watching mostly over the last few months are as follows:

Mr CVX. I love the no nonsense approach to his videos. He also seems like a reliable guy to buy machinery from. I love the videos where he goes ripping at a tractor, Im far from a mechanic, so I find it very interesting.

Gerry6420. His enterprise is similar to ours, but on a much larger scale. He also finishes some seriously good cattle.

Finnegan's Farm. I find the scale of their enterprise fascinating, and also the variety of videos they upload as a result. I also like the fact that at some stage nearly everyone ends up as part of a video. There are some great men working in the workshop, Mick and Marko come to mind straight away.

Farmer Phil. Its the mix of videos I like, I don't watch all them but like Finnegans there is great variety. I do like looking at the older tractors working too, hopefully the pallet of time will arrive into the yard some day so we can see the 3690 and 1200 working. The series of videos on the beet harvester were great, some amount of work in sub zero temperatures went into getting it operational. Also, very sad to see his uncle Ian pass away, the videos where they chatted about how things used to be on the farm were some of my favorites.

IfarmWeFarm. This is probably a channel that both farmers, and non farmers alike could watch. A lot of work goes into each video, although I don't end up watching all of them. Lovely clean yard, and like Mr CVX's videos in the workshop, I've learned a few things from Adrian ripping at stuff too!

There are a few more channels I dip in and out of, every few weeks I might watch a few of their videos. I do Agri, Cow Farmer Dan, George Saunders, Lord Muck, Funky Farmer..... All good channels, I just don't have time for them all.

The following two have gone out of favor with me over the last few months. Its nothing personal, its just the content no longer appeals to me.

Grassmen. Pretty much all the content now is about massive plant, big tractors, harvesters and loading shovels. Again, thats just my opinion, they are appealing to a LOT of the younger generation. You see so many kids wearing grassmen polo shirts these days, and when I was their age, I would have been the same.

Tom Pemberton Farm Life. I think Tom's channel is very important, as he can explain where food comes from to non farmers, which is is so important these days with all the peta propaganda floating about. Its good to see the money from youtube being reinvested back into the farm, I really enjoyed the build of the shed. But as time went I just got more disconnected with the channel. The video thumbnails are a bit mad too!

Another one u didn't mention is .....its a farming life for me......andy he works on a tillage in England I think it's one of the best

Not farming related but I'd be glued to it - Dean Doherty Greaser - Mainly tool repair but other odds & ends thrown in as well. Nearly therapeutic watching how it dismantles stuff an it all goes back together.