Addicted to Lowlines, how it all began.......
Lowland Park Lowlines, our story
Matt and Tania are fourth generation farmers on our family farm at Rukuhia in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand.
In 1991 at the age of 21, Matt took over the family farm which had been in dairy since the original 40 ha was purchased sometime in the 1920’s after his great grandfather had sold his esteemed herd of pedigree Jerseys, share milked at Pukekohe, to fund the purchase of three blocks of 40 ha, each of which were adjoining and would be developed for dairy farms for each of three sons, one being Matt’s grandfather.
Several generations followed by milking cows including Matt and Tania up until 2019 just prior to both turning 50 by which time the effects of cupping cows for over 30 years had taken its toll.
Sometime around 2014, and after many years of experimenting with Beef sires over our precious Jersey dairy cows and suffering the effects of calving difficulties every time and the resulting loss of cows, we stumbled on to Rancho Radiata who were advertising yearling Lowline bulls on Trademe. Their advertisement was full of promise and eye-catching pictures of some rather appealing stocky black bulls on green grass.
Dreams became history and beef sires over dairy cows became reality and the promise of easy calving was bang on!
Right up till the dairy cows were sold, we had many Lowline x dairy-beef calves born and we reared them all and finished them to slaughter at around 30 months and 400 kg liveweight, initially from some very old AI straws from LIC.
In the winter of 2017 we purchased our first four stud Lowline cows from Hermits Hill Stud in Warkworth, who were dispersing and again with an eyecatching ad on Tradme. The addiction had begun and Matt needed some cows to add to our Rancho Radiata bulls. We wanted to breed our own Lowline bulls for the dairy cattle. From day one, the genetics and the performance of these muscular and potent energetic bulls highly interested Matt.
Fast forward to 2025 and we have highly successfully developed the lowline herd we want and we love to look at. Through careful selection, our stud cattle grow faster and now deliver a Lowline x dairy animal, whether it be heifer or steer, to the local grid from 16 months old, prime and at least 400 kg liveweight.
We have been quietly working away promoting what we are doing on our Lowland Park Beef page on Facebook since 2016 when Lowlines got interesting and people started getting interested in what we were doing with Lowlines.
September 2025 sees the launch of our Lowland Park Beef website.
That is the history, briefly about us, the future is here…..
