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Herd History

The present owner’s grandfather came to the farm
where the Wairere stud was to eventuate in the 1890s.
In 1936 the Wairere Angus stud started, when Owen
Lander registered the first progeny of the animals he had
purchased from the Ngawaka stud at Masterton .
In 1966 a shipment of 34 cows
was bought from the South
Island’s Heathfield stud and were
airlifted in to Wanganui, then
trucked to Wairere.
Originally stock were sold
through paddock sales, but when
Taranaki breeders combined to
have a sale held centrally in
Stratford, Owen decided to join
the group and sell through this
venue. Most sales in those days were yearling sales and
when he thought he had a bull worthy to go, he would
take them to sell at the Dannevirke sale – the equivalent
to today’s National Sale.
When illness prevented Owen from continuing, Cedric
took over the Angus stud. In 1988 we held our first on To Wanganui
farm sale. We sell 20 to 25 2 year old bulls through the
home bullring in June. One of our sale highlights was
winning the Unled Champion Angus bull at the Beef
Expo/National Bull sale with a homebred bull.
Wairere has used AB since the mid 1960’s and we used
Beefplan until Breedplan began with weight gain OSH

recording. When ultrasound scanning became available Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act we are
in 1991 we were one of the first New Zealand herds required to advise people of possible hazards.
scanned as we saw it as an avenue to assess the meat Cattle can be unpredictable especially toward children.
producing attributes of the animals we were breeding. Vehicles and machinery can be dangerous if
We scan both our bulls and our heifers (not all breeders mishandled.
do both), for eye muscle, fat and intramuscular fat All possible care has been taken in arranging the sale
(marbling). seating but please take care in attaining your seat.
The challenge of genetic defects hit Wairere hard as We request that visitors refrain from smoking in the sale
most of the original carriers were high carcase producing barn because of fire risk.
sires that Wairere had used. After a lot of expensive DNA
testing the herd is now free of the defects that are
currently able to be tested for. This catalogue has been produced by the vendors and
In 2009 Cedric’s son Paul joined him on the farm and although every care has been taken to ensure accuracy,
continues Wairere Angus. no responsibility is accepted for any error or omission that
might be contained herein.