Oliver Moore: So far so good with organic conversion

Of the 870 applicants to join the Organic Farming Scheme in 2015, 220 farmers applied to rejoin. One of these was Limerick man Thomas Finucane.

He is farming a 52-acre holding part-time, as he also works with an engineering company in the mid-west. I asked him why he joined the Organic Farming Scheme back in 2010.

“The decision to convert to organic farming followed a number of years where it was virtually impossible to break even financially.