FARMS

Tarawera Station is situated on the on the banks of the Mohaka River, 60km from Napier on State Highway 5.

​The Farm is a high performing intensive breeding property. It runs nearly 32,000 stock units on 2,605 effective hectares, including leased land adjoining the main farm. Its sheep flock includes 13,000 ewes and 3,700 replacement ewe lambs. The beef cattle herd is made up of 1,000 breeding cows plus heifer replacements and finishing steers and bulls. Most of the livestock produced at Tarawera is sent to the Trusts finishing farm (Gwavas Station).

The Tarawera team manages its environmental responsibility through a number of initiatives including fencing and protecting riparian margins and installing alternative water reticulation systems for stock.

​​Tarawera also regularly benchmarks itself against its peers by taking part, often successfully, in farming competitions. In 2009, for example, Station Manager Carl Read-Jones won the Silver Fern Farms’ Hawke’s Bay Farmer of the Year competition. In 2013 the farm won the Ahuwhenua Trophy - BNZ Māori Excellence in Farming Award.