Tarentaise
The
Tarentaise breed's home is in the rugged Savoie region of France.
In France, no other cattle graze where the Tarentaise graze. Charolais,
Maine-Anjou and Limousin are raised in Basin regions, where the land is
more lush. Salers are native to a mountainous region, but it is not as
mountainous as the home of the Tarentaise.
In the early 1970s, Dr. Ray
Woodward of Miles City, Montana, was director of the beef program for
American Breeders Service. Woodward was looking for a breed that would
work on commercial cows in the U.S. while retaining milking ability and,
most importantly, avoid the calving and fertility problems of the then
known "exotics." He found the answer with Tarentaise. The
first Tarentaise bull calf arrived at a Canadian quarantine station in
1972. His name was Alpin, he weighed 1650 pounds at 30 months, and he
generated so much excitement and semen sales that soon after the
Canadian Tarentaise Association formed. In 1973, the American Tarentaise
Association was formed.
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