Displaying items by tag: Silver Fern Farms

Silver Fern Farms Pareora, near Timaru, heavily relies on its overseas workers - mainly from the Pacific Islands - to keep the meat processing plant operating.

Strong farmgate prices for red meat have also flowed through to better returns for processor and exporter Silver Fern Farms (SFF).

Farmers are being warned that they need to adapt to consumer-led change or risk going out of business.

Major meat processor and exporter Silver Fern Farms (SFF) says the recent arrival of some much-needed overseas workers will help ease growing pressure on the company.

Applications have opened for Silver Fern Farms Co-operative’s next farmer-elected director.

The country's major meat processors say they are well down the road in planning how to mitigate the Omicron variant's impact.

A critical lack of workers in New Zealand is pushing the meat industry to plead with the Government to urgently allow in more overseas staff.

Silver Fern Farms' (SFF) chief executive Simon Limmer says NZ risks missing out on export business opportunities because it remains quite isolated from the rest of the world.

Farmers are agitated at what's confronting them in the environmental space.

Silver Fern Farms (SFF) says it welcomes the release of the discussion document on the shape of the Emissions Reduction Plan and looks forward to working with officials and Ministers to ensure the final plan supports the ambition and priorities of farmers, customers and communities.