Day 2

Today we travelled out to Hingaia Angus about an hours drive south of Hamilton in the northern king country. Owned by Richard Jolly the stud was established in 1934, the property is a 400 hectares and the stud has approximately 200 breeding females, selling 60 bulls privately a year. It was nice driving through the first sunshine we had seen since arriving, although it was very wet underfoot.

We were able to view some yearling bulls that were sired by both US and NZ AI bulls, and some herd females with baby calves at foot including some fresh calves by the Australian high seller Millah Murrah Kingdom, who was sired by the Hingaia bred bull 469. We were limited to what we were able to view due to the amount of rain they had had that morning, and even found ourselves bogged in Richards Jeep a few times! We enjoyed a in-depth chat with Richard about his breeding objectives and getting his over view of Angus in New Zealand, technology and the future of the breed.