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Large-scale Investment in Silver Fern Farms’ Finegand Site

Silver Fern Farms has today announced an over $100 million investment in new freezing, cold storage, and automation facilities at its Finegand Site based just outside Balclutha. Chief Executive Dan Boulton says the investment is the largest single capital investment project undertaken by Silver Fern Farms and signals a strong vote of confidence in the sector, community, and Silver Fern Farms’ site network.

Enviromark diamond certification reflects Silver Fern Farms’ commitment to sustainability best practice

New Zealand, August 26, 2021 - Silver Fern Farms has achieved Toitū enviromark diamond certification, the highest New Zealand-based environmental certification. This represents another important step in Silver Fern Farms’ commitment to playing a leadership role in driving sustainability in the red meat sector.

Southland Processing Sites Take Out Awards

Waitane, January 12, 2022 - Two processing sites based in Southland have featured heavily in this years’ Silver Fern Farms Annual Site Awards, with Silver Fern Farms Waitane taking out this year’s award as the Overall Winner.

Enhanced investment and cross-party commitment can make Emissions Reduction Plan work for agribusiness

New Zealand, October 14, 2021 - Silver Fern Farms, New Zealand’s largest red meat company, welcomes the release of the discussion document on the shape of the Emissions Reduction Plan.

Annual Results 2022: Positive performance allows for large-scale investment

New Zealand, December 23, 2022 - Our first climate change related risk and opportunity disclosure under the TCFD framework is a key milestone within our transformative sustainability programme and an important tool in understanding as well as giving visibility to the climate impacts that will shape, change, and challenge our business in the coming years.

Annual Result 2021: Silver Fern Farms Continues Strong Investment and Transformation Through Disruption

New Zealand, April 1, 2022 - Silver Fern Farms Co-operative and its investment, Silver Fern Farms Limited, have today released their Annual Results for the 2021 year.

Silver Fern Farms’ Net Carbon Zero certified products now in New Zealand with world-first red meat carbon label

Following a successful US release last year, Silver Fern Farms’ Net Carbon Zero Toitū certified products are now rolling out across New Zealand and feature a world-first carbon label on a red meat product. A selection of the company’s existing retail beef and lamb products are becoming ‘Net Carbon Zero’, meaning that Silver Fern Farms has measured the product emissions across the full product life cycle, developed an emissions reduction plan, and 100 percent of product emissions have been balanced out by verified carbon removals via trees growing on the farms where the animals were raised.

Silver Fern Farms publishes first Greenhouse Gas Inventory including on-farm emissions from livestock

Silver Fern Farms – New Zealand’s largest red meat processor, has released its 2022 Greenhouse Gas Inventory, and for the first time, it includes Scope 3 on-farm emissions from livestock. These make up 94 percent of the company’s emissions profile.

Celebrating Guardianship with Silver Fern Farms on a Global Stage

Whāngārā Farms is the focus of Guardians, a film included in the Food for Thought series presented by FoodDrinkEurope and produced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. The series highlights 12 companies around the world finding innovative solutions to producing food on a warming planet. Guardians celebrates the work Whāngārā Farms does as Silver Fern Farms Net Carbon Zero suppliers and environmental stewards of their land.

Red meat and nutrition – Silver Fern Farms x Dr. Kelly Dale Case Study

In 2021, New Zealand nutritionist, Dr Kelly Dale, completed a case study on the role of lean, grass-fed red meat as part of a balanced diet, using products from Silver Fern Farms’ grass-fed beef, lamb and venison ranges.

Silver Fern Farms - New Brand Campaign

We are excited to introduce our first US brand campaign. We are investing in a digital media campaign that asks the question “Why is Silver Fern Farms’ red meat so consistently good’?

Silver Fern Farms secures industry-leading sustainability-linked financing

New Zealand, June 9, 2022 - Silver Fern Farms Ltd today announced the company has entered into one of New Zealand’s largest sustainability-linked working capital financing facilities (SL Financing).

Silver Fern Farms - New Zealand farmers can lead carbon conscious food production

New Zealand, June 7, 2022 - Silver Fern Farms, New Zealand’s largest red meat company, welcomed the release of the Emissions Reduction Plan and looks forward to working with the Government, industry and our farmer suppliers to ensure New Zealand is the food producer of choice in a low-carbon world.

Silver Fern Farms - Partnership between consumers and farmers key to nature-positive food production

New York, June 27, 2022 - Silver Fern Farms today celebrated the launch of its USDA-approved Net Carbon Zero By Nature 100% Grass-Fed Angus Beef at a New York City event attended by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Silver Fern Farms announces Net Carbon Zero Angus Beef

New York, March 7, 2022 - Customers will be able to purchase USDA-approved Net Carbon Zero Angus beef from Silver Fern Farms from March 2022.

Thurston takes out Top Silver Fern Farms Livestock Rep for 2021

New Zealand, December 24, 2021, Richard Thurston has taken out the top prize for Silver Fern Farms’ Livestock Rep of the Year for 2021.

Nominations Open for Silver Fern Farms Co-op Board Directors

Dunedin, February 1, 2021 - Nominations are now open for two farmer-elected Board positions on the Silver Fern Farms Co-operative Board.

Flavours of New Zealand on the menu with Silver Fern Farms’ new burger range

New Zealand, February 2, 2021 - Silver Fern Farms introduces its Honest Burger range, for burger lovers who are serious about quality. The range showcases delicious home-grown flavours, from farm to forest, by combining New Zealand’s finest pasture-raised beef, lamb and venison with hints of uniquely New Zealand ingredients.

Silver Fern Farms Takes Extensive Action To Restore Taw’Iti Stream

Hawera, February 24, 2021 - Silver Fern Farms remains fully committed to rectifying the impact caused by the ammonia incident at its Hawera site in February 2020, and has taken extensive action to significantly reduce the risk of future events, and to genuinely enhance the environments it works in.

Celebrating the first anniversary of helping to ‘Meat the Need’ across New Zealand

Dunedin, February 1, 2021 - As Meat the Need’s founding partner, Silver Fern Farms is pleased to celebrate the first anniversary of the charity.

Silver Fern Farms Approved for EECA Co-funding to Accelerate Decarbonisation

Balclutha & Christchurch, April 8, 2021 - Silver Fern Farms will halve its coal consumption after receiving co-funding from Government for major coal reduction projects at two of its processing sites.

Silver Fern Farms creates opportunities for young people to succeed in the red meat industry’

New Zealand, May 5, 2021 - Silver Fern Farms will launch their search for the future stars of the red meat industry in the coming weeks, with applications opening for the Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships and the Silver Fern Farms Graduate Career Programme.

Plate to Pasture Farmer Conference 2021 - The Future Starts Here

Wellington, July 9, 2021 - In Wellington from 7-9 July, the 2021 Farmer Conference is a chance to look to the future and figure out our place in it.

Silver Fern Farmers recognised for future focus at 2021 Plate to Pasture Awards

Wellington, July 7, 2021 - The Awards, now in their 8th year, celebrate leading Silver Fern Farms suppliers of lamb, beef, venison, and bull beef who consistently supply the company with quality stock and produce food with consumer needs in mind.

Silver Fern Farms expands Venison range to satisfy hearty winter appetites

New Zealand, July 6, 2021 - Hearty slow-cooked meals are a winter favourite and a great chance for home cooks to experiment with a range of meat options, including nutritious pasture-raised Venison.

Silver Fern Farms commits to its course for a sustainable future

New Zealand, July 8, 2021 - Net Carbon Zero Certified* Beef, Regenerative Agriculture and the elimination of coal by 2030; today, Silver Fern Farms has committed to several bold initiatives to drive its vision of being the world’s most successful and sustainable grass-fed red meat company.

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