Today the centre operates under an Act of Parliament (the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Act 1969), and consists of a full-time residential campus near Masterton and six non-residential campuses in Northland, Auckland, Taranaki, Waikato, Hawke's Bay, and Southland.
In December 2018, Taratahi was placed into receivership by the High Court of New Zealand over its failure to fully repay fees it had been ordered to refund in 2014.
[1] In July 2020 the Centre was reopened to host fully-funded Ag Contracting and Primary Industry Training courses.
The programmes are delivered in partnership with the Ministry for Primary Industries, Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) and Universal College of Learning (UCOL).
In 1951, the Trustees decided to carry out extensive improvements and enlarged the activities of the farm to provide training for young people between the ages of 16 – 20 years.