Edmond Harty could scarcely have been armed with a better CV to take charge of Dairymaster, the cutting-edge Kerry-based dairy equipment manufacturer that his father Ned had established in 1968. After all, his PhD in milking processes and his thesis, entitled “The measurement and modelling of liner behaviour and the influence of milking cluster design” had developed a groundbreaking new way for evaluating, predicting and optimising the performance of milking equipment.  He had completed courses in innovation at the Irish Management Institute and in business leadership in Stanford. Just a few years into the job, he had won the EY…