‘Adding organic tillage was a game changer after watching beef prices spiral downwards for 15 years’

How this beef farmer became an award-winning tillage farmer

Eoghan O'Sullivan (second from the right) receives his Flahavan's Organic Oat Grower of the year 2024 award from Johnny Flahavan

Grace Maher

After 15 years of “watching cattle prices spiral downwards”, Eoghan O’Sullivan felt he had to do something to reignite his passion for farming.

Flahavan’s persuaded him to switch 20ac of his 200ac enterprise – split into two blocks either side of the Limerick-Tipperary border – to organic oats a decade ago.