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 2019 with 100 bulls selling from 104 offered for an average of $3545
January 2020, Extremely dry, have weaned all calves mid January, Calves on adlib Balage and cows sucking it up. Preg testing produced 94 heifersin calf from 130 mated with 30 day bull exposure. Cows produced 210 in calf from 235 mated for a 43 day mating. Very pleasing
May 2020. Drought finaly broke 3 weeks ago and now have some grass. We have bought $48,000 of feed from as far away as Marton to survive.
May 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