A farmer who makes YouTube videos of his work now has 37,500 subscribers and says he makes more money online than from his dairy herd. Ian Pullen, 57, a cattle farmer known as 'Farmer P', makes up to £2,000 a month from YouTube videos on his 57-acre farm in Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
He began making YouTube videos in 2018, but the channel really took off during the pandemic - when he began uploading videos every day so his mother, who was living in a nursing home, could keep up-to-date on the farm when he couldn't visit. Now, with help from his wife, Jean and four daughters, he has 37,500 subscribers from all over the world, and even sells cuddly toy merchandise of his dog, Biskit.
He says videos involving shiny tractors and his dog are particularly popular and sometimes get him hundreds of thousands of views. He said: "When Covid hit I couldn't visit my mum in the nursing home, so we bought her a TV for her room and uploaded videos every day so she could keep up to date on what was going on at the farm.
