
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.
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Aug 26, 2026
Making Dairy Beef Pay: James O’Sullivan’s Farm System
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Catherine EganHOST
What are... do you see as the main drivers behind that level of profitability for your farm system?

James O'SullivanGUEST
Yeah, I suppose it was the, the perfect storm, if you like, that we had a good, a good strong beef price in the...

James O'SullivanGUEST
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.

James O'SullivanGUEST
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.