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:
2021 Has been another challenging year with a dissapointing autumn.
Calving is under way (1st August)
We have catalogued 115 bulls for our Sept 1at sale
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.
The Shack has confirmed bookings on the following dates:
2021 bookingth-3rd January-10th January Roberta
14th Jan- 30th Jan Samuel
30th - ? Margie??
31st - 4th Feb Jess
9th feb - 16th feb John O
19th - 21st feb Linda, Jess and Tony
19th-21st March Simon, Jess and Tony
1st April - 9th April Kim & Viv
16th - 26th april Jess and Tony
4th - 7th June Charlotte
11th June - 23rd June CB
15th July - 18th July Charlotte
23/24 July Carla (K&V)
10/11 Sept Carla (K&V)
24Th Sept - 27th Sept Caroline
30th Sept -5Th Oct John O
29th Dec -7th Jan 2022 Caroline
29th Dec 21 -7th Jan 2022 Caroline
16th - 29th January Sam
Feb- 22nd-27th Marcus Tietjens
March 17/18 Working bee and meeting
March 19th Reunion
March 20th-26th CB