A vet & an ecologist learning to farm on the beautiful Isle of Islay. We aim to produce sustainable beef that delivers for the environment & biodiversity
Port Ellen, Scotland
Joined February 2019
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
Farmers are totally perplexed
1950-1990 cheap food
1990-2010 oh shit that crashes nature
2016 green BREXIT
2020-23 public goods for public £
2024 not quite enough £
2025 we’ve lost interest - can you do cheap food and nature with no funding?
This wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card
This morning's beautiful beef shorthorn heifer calf. Out of Dunsyre Venus Opal 28th AI'd to Sandwick Prefer-a-bull.
Samara's first AI success!
What every livestock farmer should hope to see when turning over a cowpat! Massive Geotrupes dung beetle burrow. Nutrient cycling dreamland.
Cornabus Farm retweeted
Greenland White-fronts leaving Islay on a NW flightline over my house this morning. This is the only time that they fly over in this direction in any numbers. Volume up.
Cornabus Farm retweeted
To grow food, we need nature. The UK Government must increase investment in nature friendly farming. #NatureCantWait
Sign and share the petition. action.rspb.org.uk/page/1561…
Barnacle geese arriving in to the fields this morning. Alongside 3 other goose spp, 4 spp duck, 4 spp of wader displaying (🤞redshank back any day now too).
33 whoppers heading North overhead.
Waiting on our first real spring migrants to arrive (LBB gulls barely count!)
Much rarer than white rhinos and in the midst of (another) dramatic population decline and yet very few people are talking about this and even less conservation action happening.
Well done @NatureNorthEast for a cracking shot and for giving this amazing bird a bit of limelight
Only a few weeks left before our Greenland White-fronts head back north.
Another year, another decrease in our wintering numbers, with only 3 juvenile birds observed amongst the flock.
Here’s hoping they have a more productive 2025 breeding season. 🤞
@RSPBScotland The Oa
Cornabus Farm retweeted
It's #WorldWildlifeDay and to celebrate I've put together a little introductory film for my brand new YouTube Channel. I would love it if you checked it out and hit those like and subscribe buttons. 🐋
youtu.be/Y--frN3pJHI?si=aXrt…
Cornabus Farm retweeted
Shame on you @Keir_Starmer
The choice wasn’t between funding the NHS and a tax break - a staggeringly ill-judged explanation
You just killed the last vestiges of any social contract with British farmers
Well done to the farmers who blocked him in today - escalate it
The baiting consultant has been out making sure things are in top shape for barnacle goose catching over the coming days
Cornabus Farm retweeted
I wrote this about offset BS
And how politicians are backing away from environmental responsibilities - on the left and right of the spectrum
(Strange photo and headline maybe, but I don’t choose those) unherd.com/2025/02/labours-w…
Cornabus Farm retweeted
Jeez… this is some Orwellian doublespeak if ever I saw some
Almost everything green is now co-opted and abused for dodgy ends
It is so depressing
Nature restoration funding is now for speeding building of roads, houses and airports?
Cornabus Farm retweeted
Our new study is now published in Bird Study on the effects of avian influenza on the Greenland Barnacle Geese
Find a summary on our website ecologyconsult.co.uk/project…
Or read the full paper at tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
