Enda Keaveney – Dairy Farm Partnership
Enda from County Galway is in a dairy farm partnership in with his parents since 2015. He studied construction first and then the 
recession hit Ireland. They are farming 120 cows.
Main motivations to enter farming:
- He was always in farming, grew up with it. The farm is milking cows since 1970’s
- Recession in Ireland
- He began working with other dairy farmers and ‘thought there is more to this than I know and got a grá for it and liked the technical side and decided to go for it’
- He was starting to get older in life/stage in life
- ‘Opportunity for the home farm business to grow/expand, take on new development and to get involved in the farm at home’
Main success factors include:
- ‘Foundations for the farm were here’ had to just apply technical ability to get the most out of it
- ‘good working relationship with parents’, ‘open minded and trust’
- ‘great support and backup with advisor, discussion group and the dairy community – very open minded’