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Silver Fern Farms says it is helping sponsor new charity – Meat the Need – so its farmer suppliers can donate meat to those New Zealanders who need it most.

Tim Gibson has been appointed to the board of Silver Fern Farms Co-operative Limited as an independent director.

Despite making a record profit of nearly $71 million, meat processor Silver Fern Farms Ltd has delayed paying any dividend.

Well-known Southland farmer and agribusinessman Keith Neylon has just penned a no-holds barred biography.

Silver Fern Farms is giving weekly reports to its suppliers to keep them abreast of what it describes as a ‘dynamic situation in China and one that could change very quickly’.

Meat processor Silver Fern Farms is being forced to divert product away from China as coronavirus ravages its biggest market.

Disruption in China caused by the coronavirus is forcing meat processor Silver Fern Farms to reduce production from next week.

It sounds like the death rattle is signalled for the former Fairton meat processing plant near Ashburton.

The recent announcement by Silver Fern Farms that Richard Young is the new chairman of the meat co-operative got this old mutt thinking this is a true case of ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’.

Silver Fern Farms Cooperative has reported a net profit before tax of $2.4m for the 2018 financial year.