Deelside Farm in Delvin, Co Westmeath, is a partnership in every sense of the word.
The 111-hectare farm has been in Tony McCormack's family for generations, but a few years ago he decided off-farm demands were making managing it on his own impossible and he sought out an alternative.
The option he settled on was a registered farm partnership with 32-year-old Chris Cahill, who despite not coming from a direct farming background always wanted a career in agriculture.
What's unique about the situation is the two are not related. Tony provides the land, facilities and half the cows; Chris brings labour, the other half of the 240-strong herd, and ideas.
"I don't come from a direct farming background but I always had the interest in farming growing up," said Chris.
"I would have been farming with my uncles and trying to be out on the farm as much as I could. I did dairy business in UCD, so I suppose the idea was always to follow a career in agriculture."
Chris is responsible for the day-to-day management of the farm but he would be in regular contact with Tony.
"It was a great start for me to have someone that was so familiar with the farm here, even though it was all new to me," he said.
Chris added: "It was initially set up as a ten-year arrangement, so we're four years into that now and it's working very well and hopefully working well for the two of us.
"I would hope the arrangement will continue beyond the ten years."
With the average age of a farmer in Ireland pushing 60, and with fewer than 6% under 35, generational renewal, or farm succession, is an acute issue facing Irish farming.
Teagasc has been holding a series of events this week to highlight the subject, including a farm walk at Tony and Chris' farm to share their story.
Tony said the site in Delvin has always been "a real family farm".
"I farmed here with my father, with my brothers. I always worked off the farm, be it part-time or full-time, and it got to the stage five years ago where I just realised it was just too much to balance, and I had no clear successor.
"I have two daughters but they were too young to take over the farm at the time, so I decided to look into going into a Registered Farm Partnership."
The next step was Tony putting an ad in the Irish Farmers Journal, which received eight responses, but Chris was the applicant who stood out.
"I met up with Chris. We spent four or five months discussing it and then we decided that we had enough in common and we wanted the same goals for the farm. So we formed a partnership.
"I'm not that old but it's still great to see a bit of youth coming into the farm and good ideas and great stuff, and Chris is excellent that way. He's more up to date with stuff and he puts a lot into it."
The majority of young people enter farming through family inheritance, but Teagasc is keen to point out there are other ways.
Ruth Fennell, Collaborative Farming Specialist with Teagasc, said that "currently we have about 5,000 registered farm partnerships in Ireland".
"A lot of those are probably family ones, so this one (Tony and Chris' partnership) is a little unusual, but we do have other models.
"So the likes of share farming, there are others that are involved with cow leasing, land leasing. There are a number of different ways in which we can collaborate and bring farmers together, and this is just one of those such models."
According to Ruth, a farm partnership offers huge security.
"It's a legally binding partnership agreement that's drawn up, and as part of that each party states in their capital accounts what they're bringing to that partnership arrangement.
"So if and when that partnership is ever dissolved, they're entitled to take out the assets they've brought to the partnership once all partnership debts have been settled," she explained.
Events like the Teagasc farm walk in Delvin are crucial in highlighting alternative farm-succession options.
Such alternatives are much needed, as the next generation increasingly looks away from the farm and towards what they deem to be more attractive career options.
The Department of Agriculture has commissioned a report on generational renewal, with the findings due to be published at next week's National Ploughing Championships.
Any solutions will be eagerly anticipated by an ageing farming community.
