Te Atarangi is situated on the Pouto Peninsula, 25 minutes South West of Dargaville. It backs on to the west coast (300 metres from high tide and good fishing spots) and is just 4 km by road from the Kaipara Harbour to the east.
We now have 330+ paddocks on the freehold block. There is a further 40 paddocks fenced with pigtails and poly wire. Most fencing now undertaken is 2 wire electric. We now have 7 sets of yards.
Our Angus Stud began in 1988 with the purchase of 5 cows from Matauri. We now farm 300 Angus cows along side 180 cross-bred cows. We aim for a maternal animal with reasonable growth and excellent ease of calving.
We have mated yearlings since 1982. All stud cows are calved behind a hot wire with calves from the Angus tagged and weighed at birth.
All the latest news and updates from our farm:
Sales
a successful sale in 2020 with 99 bulls selling from 99 offered for an average of $3756. The bulls looked good after the prolonged drought and sold extremely well. Over all the bulls had a good ballance of figures with superb ease of calving figures and good growth and carcase. Definitely the best figures we have presented.
We had our first calves on the ground on the 4th July, 16 days early and calving was completed completed by 28th August.
May 2020. Drought finaly broke 3 weeks ago and now have some grass. We have bought $65,000 of feed from as far away as Marton to survive.
September 2020, we currently have 2 yr bulls for sale suitable for Dairy and Beef
The Shack has confirmed bookings on the following dates:
2021 bookings
4th January-14th January Joseph
17th Jan- 27th Jan Samuel
27th Mar-4th April Megan & Eric
Jan 2nd 2022 -10th Jan 2022 Caroline
Jan 2nd 2022 -10th Jan 2022 Caroline
2022 bookings