Kahua Ranch Limited is home to some 3,300 mother cows. With over 75 years of planned breeding with the last 40 years using artificial insemination to influence the genetic direction of the herd, Kahua's cattle herd has evolved into lines of animals that consistently set the mark for feedyard performance and beef quality. Originally a Hereford breed based herd, today Kahua is primarily Angus influenced with the use of Charolais as a terminal crossbred. A relative newcomer to the herd is our Wagyu bloodlines. Best known as the Japanese "Kobe" Beef, today Kahua Ranch is raising and finishing the animals for an exclusive list of customers.

Kahua Ranch is also home to 900 mother sheep or "ewes". A Merino based flock with Romney, Corriedale, and Dorset influence, the sheep are used in concert with the cattle to graze and manage the lands. The meat production is all locally consumed in restaurant and retail trade; the wool is shorn and shipped to the mainland United States for woolen garment manufacturing

What would a ranch be without its horses? Today Kahua still uses horses in the livestock handling. A Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred, and Morgan cross, the original bloodlines trace back to the early 1900's when the United States Army gave Thoroughbred stallions to ranches in return for the ranches raising remounts for use in the Pacific.

With a focus on increasing productivity while keeping in mind environmental impact and sustainability, Kahua Ranch embraced the high density / rapid rotational method of managing grazing lands. The concept is simple. Confining the herd into a small area for a limited amount of time and then moving them on. This allows the just grazed area to have the plants recover without further impact and is an effective tool to manage against erosion. End result? This has allowed Kahua Ranch to effectively double its carrying capacity, sustained, for over 25 years.