The Takeda Legacy
Lifelong Devotion
Nestled in the tranquil surroundings of the Perth Hills, the Shogo Takeda Genetics Centre is where Pardoo’s most elite Wagyu Stud herd call home.
A serene and timeless setting, it is also home to Pardoo’s leading Wagyu Management team who also reside here; tending to our Wagyu herds’ needs daily. It is a vocation which transcends the mechanistic notions of simply feeding and moving cattle…
Part art and science, it takes a lifelong devotion to this profession to develop a sixth sense for knowing precisely what a Wagyu Stud’s particular needs are at any given time.
Our esteemed Management team have evolved a fine-tuned perception of the nuances in raising Wagyu cattle. To the layperson, what may seem like a Wagyu’s glance or a shrug can often mean a great deal more to our Managers’ trained eyes.
For Mark and Aiko our Managers, this has arguably become their ikigai (from Japanese: a sense of purpose).
The Takeda Lineage
Pardoo has circumnavigated the globe in search of the answers to our most prized questions on raising Wagyu and have had the good fortune of hosting Mr. Shogo Takeda, the man who introduced Japanese Wagyu to the world, three times at Pardoo Station between 2016 and 2018.
Long before this sojourn, our management team have been the beneficiaries of Mr. Takeda’s calm and considered tutelage, resulting from over 50 years of constant refinement at his own Takeda Farms in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan.
This is but one piece of the larger Wagyu puzzle that Pardoo Wagyu has worked tirelessly to put together over the last decade.
Today, the Pardoo Wagyu stud herd all lay a verified ancestral heritage to the original Japanese Wagyu Foundation Sires which Mr. Takeda introduced to the world in the early nineties.
It is this which has provided the quintessential foundation, for the success of Pardoo’s Wagyu’s transformation genetic improvement programme; the exceptional results of which are increasingly self-evident.
True to this lineage, Pardoo received permission from the Takeda Family to lend Mr. Shogo Takeda’s name to its Genetics Centre, thus giving rise to the Shogo Takeda Genetics Centre.
Source: Takeda Farms (Japan)
