Origin

Most of our present cows can be traced back to a herd of mixed age cows out of Mid Canterbury and lines of in-calf heifers from the North Island; bought in to populate Woldwide One in 1991, about 360 in total.
Over the years the numbers have grown through natural increase using AI. Our breeding policy has swayed somewhat from overseas to New Zealand genetics and back again.
At the moment our cows weigh about 540 kg, produce 540 kg MS and are mainly Friesian.
Our main focus is to optimise the genetics of the herd for our farming system. Our ultimate goal is to breed 600 kg cows that can produce 660 kg MS per lactation under a pasture based system with moderate supplements.

Important to the efficiency goals we have set ourselves are:

High production capacity
Sound udder and legs
Lactation persistency
Fertility

Currently most of the semen we use is Dutch, selected from the Dutch TIP ranking. We feel that these bulls match our farming system better than New Zealand genetics at this point in time.

Some bulls in this year’s mating programme are:

Batenburg Stellando
Diepenhoek Rozello
Hoekland Maik
Bouw Snowfever