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
Joined February 2019
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
29 May 2025
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
29 May 2025
“ well son when I was your age we used to call this nature friendly farming. A wonderful blend of nature thriving alongside healthy nutritious food that was a benefit for all”
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12 May 2025
Sparrows have decided we can't use the squeeze on the cattle crush this nesting season!
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24 Apr 2025
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!
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28 Apr 2025
And this morning's heifer calf out of Gigha, AI to Firefox of Upsall
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20 Apr 2025
What every livestock farmer should hope to see when turning over a cowpat! Massive Geotrupes dung beetle burrow. Nutrient cycling dreamland.
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
1 Apr 2025
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.
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
17 Mar 2025
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…
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16 Mar 2025
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!)
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16 Mar 2025
66 barnie rings read before they flushed to the other end of the field. Lots of new birds from our catches in February alongside some from last year and a smattering of Icelandic and Irish rung birds. A few old faithful Greenland white-front collars too just because!
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15 Mar 2025
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
15 Mar 2025
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
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
3 Mar 2025
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…
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
13 Feb 2025
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
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13 Feb 2025
The baiting consultant has been out making sure things are in top shape for barnacle goose catching over the coming days
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
11 Feb 2025
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…
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
29 Jan 2025
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?
29 Jan 2025
🏡Our Nature Restoration Fund will speed up the building of the new infrastructure and homes across the country
💧Securing £104bn of record levels of private investment to upgrade our crumbling water infrastructure to support the building of homes, datacentres and gigafactories
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Cornabus Farm retweeted
28 Jan 2025
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.…
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