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300 Rotohiwi Road, Nick 06 855 4737 Jim 06 858 5369
RD2, Waipukurau, 4282 0274 288 821 0272 800 904

HIWIROA

SHORTHORNS

iwiroa Shorthorns was proven performers in our own heifers and bulls are grown out at
Hestablished with the purchase environment. Hiwiroa.
of 25 cows from the Ryedale herd in For the past 12 years we have The cattle are farmed alongside
2005. We soon developed a working focused on selecting sires with a commercial flock of 1400 ewes.
relationship with Timothy Plummers’ higher fats and EMA for carcass Farming on the summer dry east
Tahuna herd, where while retaining quality, with good growth but coast we have been endeavoring to
separate ownership the herds are run maintaining positive calving ease add more flexibility to our farming
together. We have added cows from and a moderate frame which we system over this time. With the
the Tahuna, Pinnacle, Austins and believe gives us a functional cow purchase of the new coastal block
Brigadoon herds as well as breeding herd to handle the tough times and we will move to putting more ewes
up from our own herd to where we excel when conditions are favorable. to a terminal sire targeting the pre
now have 80 calving cows. This year The Mature cow herd is farmed on Christmas premiums but will have to
we have had 12 Embryo Transfer medium to steep coastal hill country buy in some of our replacements.
calves born and see this as the best at Porangahau on a property we
way to further grow our herd utilizing purchased in March 2019 and in calf
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