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James O'Sullivan

James O'Sullivan

James O'Sullivan is a dairy calf-to-beef farmer in West Cork, Ireland and a Teagasc DairyBeef 500 demonstration farmer near Union Hall.

Aug 26, 2026

1:48
What are... do you see as the main drivers behind that level of profitability for your farm system?
1:53
Yeah, I suppose it was the, the perfect storm, if you like, that we had a good, a good strong beef price in the...
1:59
when I was selling the cattle, and calf price wasn't after skyrocketing when I was buying the calves in the springtime, so it's, it kind of worked out, uh, that we had the best of both worlds.
2:09
Um, o- output was up as well, I suppose.
2:11
It's...
2:11
That definitely helped and, um, I suppose the year that was in it, we had no big extremes in weather that costs were able to stay reasonably stable as well.
4:51
How are you balancing, you know, working on-farm and your off-farm work?
4:56
For the month of April and May, it's hard at times.

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