Farming Youtubers

Their working like dogs in fairness, couple of them are fair shook looking for their age, it's not a great lifestyle been full tilt 365

things a bit different in ni. You can right off a new tractor or shed fully in one year where as we have to do it over 7 years down here. Which is why you see so many sheds on farms and machinery

they also have a lot of irons in the fire with 500 + cows plus all followers and an AD plant and there’s 7 invested interests there to make sure it all works. As one of the brothers said it’s not that we’re making a load of money they’re just turning over alot of big money every year and it’s a big pie

Adrian had great vid today and nice respite from this biblical weather.

The days of the above are a pipe dream in all fairness, what's needed alone their every month for hp payments and wages would be eye-watering

They’d be buying a fresh one in Year 3

Watched part of one video and that was all I could take. Dunno if it's the angle they are going for or if it is genuine.

Either way, I don't really want to watch that. Plenty of other content out there and things to do. Saves me another hole to go down.

I’d say I turned off farmer Phil’s video today for the first time in 3 years. I know it can be hard to get content t especially in this weather for 3 videos a week but this samasz tour along with the Fleming tour a few weeks ago is basically an infomercial.

personally I like what’s going on around the farm. Often it can be the simple things. Adrian makes a lot of decent videos out of fixing simple stuff.

anyway maybe others love it but I’ll find something else for my fix as I wait for a ewe to lamb here

Just watched a video there. Kinda disturbing, if you ask me.

a local man to me here. Top class cattle and a great farmer/fabricator

he has great stock , unsubed from a lot of channels but remain watching his

Snowball Engineering would be with a watch then.

They can be on the long side. If I watched everything I was subscribed to I'd get nothing done.

It's like anything, there's always a bust after a boom. Lads that started early made hay while the sun shone.

There's only so much silage being done , slurry being spread, letting cows out for first time in spring lads will watch.

Not much changes from year to year.

I think you are right. It would be a brave decision to alter your farm business to chase social media views.

Those that started or were established pre covid would have done well.

I thought the Samasz factory stuff was very interesting to hear how they develop new machinery. The Fleming factory tour was very good also. It’s not every day we see inside these places.

An idea for any tubers running out of content..

Get the yoke out.

A world meeting of Draft cattle operators in Hesse, Germany this year.

Not YouTube but siamsa sessions posted a lovely little video on twitter. Keep the chin up was the message.

Kieran, your content is excellent and imo it related to the day to day efforts of livestock farmers - you told it all and didn't hold anything back which is rear within farming circles. I've always enjoyed watching your videos. I hope you achieve your dream of milking cows.

He'd be better off buying a hazmat suit and converting to tillage now and keeping the off farm job. Journal is reporting the tillage groups months of lobbying of hardship has paid off. They are getting 450/ha to plough grassland and 250/ha for five years to keep it in tillage. But the big tillage farmer has gotten a limit imposed of 15/ha and over only. So no field just for feed cereal and straw for yourself.

In reality it was the Irish corn merchants that lobbied. But it seems they've won now. Another death knell to the small dairy or grassland farmer that was in the market for leased land too.

No votes for fg or ff ever again here anyway.

From a nitrates point of view this means more nitrates in the waterways. But no blame is ever put on this by the noisy only on the livestock so livestock will be blamed more for the increase of N in waterways. It's all bull and brings us back to where we were in nitrates 20, 30 years ago which was worse than today. And more in line with nitrates in Europe where tillage is more practised.

But they've won the room. Congrats.

Best of luck with that Kieran. 👍

I think farmers like myself like watching farmers on u tube who work hard and don't bluff. How many of ye walk into a neighbour or friends yard have a chat and a look just to compare and pick up ideas. That's what the spirit of what the videos should be about and I for one would keep coming back.

I think most genuine people on boards here are of the same belief. We all know the ones not to watch.