Breeding Principles

The objective of the Te Mania programme is to ensure that commercial clients using our genetics are on a continuous improvement programme within their own herd, and that they are kept at the forefront of the New Zealand beef industry, with performance that rivals the best in the world.

Te Mania’s goal is to offer genetics that will give our clients more live calves, that will wean heavier, grow faster and have exceptional carcase quality. Producing sound, efficient and productive females must be a given in a profitable system.

All our cattle are run and evaluated in large contemporary groups. We ensure all cattle get equal opportunity and are measured against each other to give objective comparisons for the economically important traits of calving ease, growth, fertility and carcase merit.

We have adopted a selection of tools and technology to utilise within the farming system and we use a combination of leading edge performance yearlings and highly accurate, specially selected semen sires from around the globe to optimise the genetic gain of our herd.