{"id":355680,"date":"2026-03-20T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355680\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:42:15","slug":"sucklers-dairy-calves-and-tillage-its-all-in-the-mix-at-this-320ac-offaly-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355680\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucklers, dairy calves and tillage: It\u2019s all in the mix at this 320ac Offaly farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Farming in a partnership with his son James, John Dunne says rising cattle prices, succession planning, environmental sustainability and generational renewal all play a central role in shaping future profitability\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Dunne and his son James run a suckler, dairy-bred calf and tillage enterprise in Co Offaly. Photo: Alf Harvey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/374235b4-3535-4695-bd69-3cdf3512baef.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Dunne and his son James run a suckler, dairy-bred calf and tillage enterprise in Co Offaly. Photo: Alf Harvey<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">John Dunne has been a full-time farmer for the past 40 years, and during that time, he has seen beef prices rise from \u2018a pound a pound\u2019, to \u20ac4.00\/kg, to record highs of over \u20ac7.00\/kg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today, he believes \u20ac7.00\/kg has become the defining benchmark and anything less would be uneconomic in today\u2019s cost environment for farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farming in a partnership with his son James, John Dunne says rising cattle prices, succession planning, environmental sustainability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[94738,72,52079,61,60],"class_list":["post-355680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-beef-farm-profiles","tag-business","tag-catherina-cunnane","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}