The Te Taumata Poll Hereford herd is a based on nearly 60 years of breeding cattle for the commercial cattleman and beef industry.
Te Taumata is a rolling hill country farm where cattle compete with sheep at high district stocking rates in summer-dry, winter conditions.
If you would like to know more about our management practices and breeding programme, give us a call or come and see us anytime. December/January is a great time to come and see our cows with their calves at foot.
Bulls are available for sale at our Annual Bull Sale at the end of May each year. We strongly believe that a great line-up of sale bulls is the product of a top performing cow herd.
18 month heifers 
Breeding Objectives
Te Taumata’s objective is to breed productive, profitable beef cattle and provide breed leading genetics for New Zealand’s commercial cow herds run on predominately steep hill country throughout the North and South Islands. New Zealand’s pasture based breeding and fattening systems are unique compared to most countries around the world and our cattle reflect this focus on constitution, longevity, structural soundness and maternal ability.
Te Taumata uses modern technology and performance recording alongside strict structural and phenotype assessement. We have recently had all imported and homebred sires used in the herd over the last 10 years 50K genomics tested. Future sires will now by 100K genomics tested.