Our Mission
Lowland Park is our home in the Waikato, where we breed Australian Lowline cattle alongside our commercial beef operation.
Our aim is simple: breed cattle that work. Fertile, functional cattle with the structure, temperament, growth and carcase performance to earn their place.
Measure what matters
We record growth, frame, carcase traits, fertility and temperament because appearances alone don’t tell us whether an animal is doing its job.
The information helps us make breeding decisions, identify the cattle that consistently perform, and learn where we can improve.
Our Performance Index brings that information together as an on-farm selection tool, helping us compare cattle on balanced performance rather than any single trait. It isn’t an EBV or breed-wide ranking — it’s simply a practical way of making better breeding decisions within our own herd.
Breed for the future
We use proven Lowland Park genetic lines alongside carefully selected Australian genetics to maintain diversity and keep moving the herd forward.
We aren’t trying to make the biggest Lowlines — or the smallest. We’re breeding fast, efficient growth from a moderate frame, with cattle capable of turning New Zealand grass into good beef.
What farmers are seeing
John & Nicola Anderson — Mangakino
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.