{"id":13,"date":"2025-08-06T03:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikaucoopworth.dev.pivotdesign.co.nz\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:35:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nikaucoopworth.dev.pivotdesign.co.nz\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Nikau Coopworth<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Nikau Coopworth, a sheep breeding operation producing stud rams, is located in the Waikaretu valley, half way between Raglan and Port Waikato on New Zealand\u2019s west coast. The flock was established by Jack Woodward in the 1950\u2019s and then run for 35 years by Clive Woodward and his wife Susan.<\/p>

Clive and Sue were progressive farmers with a passion for the Coopworth breed and a real vision for their place in the future of the New Zealand sheep industry. A rigorous selection process and the use of modern technology to assess heritable traits have resulted in a flock producing some of the top rams in New Zealand. Since 2009 Kate Broadbent has owned and managed the Nikau stud with the same forward thinking philosophy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Owner, Manager and Passionate Ram Breeder<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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First travelling to New Zealand in 1987 on her OE, she worked as a shearer and shepherd in New Zealand, the UK and across Canada and the US for 25 years.\u00a0 Purchasing Nikau Coopworth in 2009, Kate
farms on lease land in the Waikaretu Valley. A commercial ewe flock and dairy\/beef trading cattle compliment the stud sheep operation.

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Kate is very active in the NZ sheep industry…<\/p>

  • President of Coopworth Genetics NZ<\/li>
  • Founding member, Steering Committee member of FE Gold\u00a0<\/li>
  • Founding member, Steering Committee member WormFec Gold<\/li>
  • Beef and Lamb NZ Farmer Council member<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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    Nikau Coopworth is one of the elite stud flocks in New Zealand.<\/p>

    • The Coopworth Society<\/li>
    • Sheep Improvement Ltd (SIL) \u2013 a performance and genetic evaluation recording service for the sheep industry<\/li>
    • NZOSR \u2013 NZ Ovine Sire Referencing \u2013 linking flocks and ranking sires\u200b<\/li>
    • FE Gold- leading facial eczema genetics<\/li>
    • \u200bWormFEC Gold – leading parasite resistant\u00a0genetics<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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