Brendan and Pauline O’Driscoll have four children, Amy, Niall, Sam and Ian, Pauline helps out on the farm with the paperwork associated with managing the business. They also get additional help from the children at weekends and from two local contractors. Brendan started farming full time in 2000 with a mixed enterprise before focusing entirely on dairy farming. The farm land has been in the family since the 1860’s and Brendan is now the fourth generation. He has made considerable improvements and increased the herd size since 2014 including investing in soil fertility, reseeding and using technologies like grass budgeting in order to feed additional cows without using additional concentrate.
