Ricky Whelan

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In Your Nature · In Your Nature Ep 59 - Breeding Waders EIP · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

So now we're not blaming farmers for gathering

grass for their cows, that is just the way f the farming industry has gone.

We're not pointing fingers.

But it's just the culture has changed in thirty years from going from hay cuts to multiple silage cuts and it just leaves very little space for those birds in those fields.

Is that that fair to say?

And conservationists are guilty of of finger pointing for for many decades.

But we see where that's got us, and I'm guilty of that as well.

Jesus, I would afflict the farmers for years.

And then I realized we are at nothing without the farmers.

So it's about time now you let them go about the business now and we try fit what the what measures can be fit into our farmers as they are.

Modern farms are not.

We're not going back to you know, sides and donkeys and and and that's.

sort of grazing.

So i it we have to adapt our approach to it as conservationists.

And that I think that's just um that's just how it is.

But so tell me now, we're on we're we're on my imaginary farm, mixed farm, um small sort of 40 acres somewhere in in in Ross Common now and

Historically there's been a curloo and a couple of red shank around the place, but not for years.

What measures are the breeding waiter EIP team asking me to sort of adopt on my farm?

Let's talk about trees.

Yeah.

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