Lowland Park Genetics

Winter born 2024 yearling heifers Lowland Park Vatican and Lowland Park Viridine, both by Lowland Park Tassie, August 2025

Our Mission

Mission & Breeding Goals
 
At Lowland Park, we’re passionate about breeding Lowline cattle that thrive in New Zealand’s modern agricultural landscape—both commercially and economically. Our focus is on producing animals that are not only profitable but also structurally sound, docile, and genetically robust.
 
Our breeding program is data-driven
 
We believe that a successful Lowline cow should calve annually starting at two years old, having met key growth and performance benchmarks. Her calves must also hit these targets to be considered for breeding, ensuring each generation improves on the last.
 
We maintain a herd of elite females, each backed by extensive performance data. From these, we produce top-quality heifers, steers, and bulls. Our bulls aren’t just selected—they’re the result of rigorous lifetime evaluation and come from proven maternal lines. If a bull doesn’t meet our standards, he’s steered. We breed for strong female lines, and our bulls are a reflection of that commitment.
 
Genetic diversity is key
 
We regularly introduce outcross genetics from Australia using AI. This strengthens fertility, growth rates, and overall animal vigour. Every new genetic line is carefully assessed and culled if it doesn’t meet our strict criteria. Our goal is simple: turn New Zealand’s free-range grass into premium beef, efficiently.
 
We’ve supplied bulls for dairy-beef production since 2022 to one loyal dairy farm, gathering proof of concept.
 
We are now confident enough in our top-tier bulls to offer straws to other Stud Lowline herds and dairy herds across New Zealand. These bulls are bred to deliver results.
 
Our Registered Stud Lowline Bulls, collected for straws
 
Lowland Park Tassie: Delivered 2,500 straws to LIC in 2024. He’s proven himself with pedigree progeny and weighs in at 542kg at two years old. He’s large but built on a moderate frame.
 
Lowland Park Ultimate: Our fastest-growing Lowline to date, surpassing Tassie’s benchmarks. At two years old, he weighed 584kg and is expected to mature into a big-framed bull. Currently not available, but is planned to be trialed over large frame dairy cows this coming 2025 spring mating.
 
Interestingly, Tassie and Ultimate are maternal brothers—both out of full sisters sired by unrelated Australian sourced bulls via AI straws.
 
All our breeding stock undergo ultrasound carcass scanning around 20 months of age to ensure quality and consistency.
 
As committed breeders of Australian Lowline cattle, we’re proud to continue improving the breed and now offer straws from our New Zealand-bred bulls.
 
Full data sets are available on request.

Confidence gained from Feedback

Dairy Farmer Testimonial,  30 March 2025

 

We had a personal goal to find a solution to minimising bobby calf numbers on farm.

One focus was identifying a breed we could use over our dairy heifers. The Lowline breed has allowed us to do this, providing us with quality, easy calving fast growing calves.

With our aim to send cattle to the processor before the second winter, Lowline genetics are perfect for this as they become prime very quickly and handle tough times like dry summers very well. Overall, they have very few animal health issues.

Currently we are experiencing a very dry summer in 2025. We have already sent 60 out of 90 Lowline x Friesian heifers and steers to the works, 15 to 18 months old and averaging around 200kg on the hooks.

This is our fifth season of using lowline genetics and the progeny of our  Lowland Park and Ironclad Stud bulls are continuously improving with increased weight gains of their offspring at all stages of growth.

 We plan to continue using Lowline bulls over our fresian dairy heifers.

Cheers John and Nicola Anderson
Mangakino, New Zealand

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Strong Family lines, born to grow

Heifer calf Lowland Park Westminster Abbey by Lowland Park Ultimate and Lowland Park Trinity, 25 August 2025

 

Lowland Park Uprising U350 and Lowland Park Trinity are full siblings

Lowland Park Beef Lowlines

Born to grow

Lowland Park Trinity calved at just under 2-years-old, pictured here with her daughter Lowland Park Vatican by Lowland Park Tassie at weaning, after enduring a lengthened Waikato drought

 

 

Key weights at weaning

Trinity- 413 kg, 33 months old

Vatican- 199 kg, 266 days old

 

 

After weaning, Trinity powered weight back on at 0.91 kg/day up to 470kg for her next calf, Lowland Park Westminster Abbey born on 29 July 2025

Lowland Park Uprising U350, 25 months old

Uprising is the tallest Lowline bull we have bred to date

 

Key Statistics

2-year-old Hip Height- 124 cm

2-year-old weight- 590 kg

Gestation- 281 days

IMF: 4.4%

Unbeatable calm temperament, the most Valuable Lowine bull we have bred


Sire- Ardrossan Coala

Dam- Rancho Radiata Narnia, mother of Lowland Park Trinity

Lowland Park Beef Lowlines, born to grow