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Meat company Silver Fern Farms is launching the first sea-freight container shipment of chilled beef as well as multiple air-freight orders of beef and lamb set for Chinese customers.

Almost $600 million flowed into the meat industry from outside New Zealand in the last 18 months.

Pure South lamb from Alliance Group is now on the menu of a growing number of five-star hotels and in high-end retail stores in India as marketing in the world’s second most populous nation gathers pace.

New Zealand's red meat sector must do a much better selling job when telling its story to customers – offshore and at home.

New Zealand lamb has been named the hero of the dinner table when ranked against other family favourites by Kiwi home cooks.

Alliance Group has experienced a year of challenging markets, but the business strategy is beginning to achieve results, chairman Murrat Taggart told its annual meeting yesterday.

A range of factors including currency fluctuations, a weak and volatile outlook for lamb and wool, plus the impact of drought and facial eczema, will impact on sheep and beef farmer profitability this season.

Meat and edible offal exports fell 15% ($235 million) in the September quarter, Statistics New Zealand says.

Three red meat producers and a wine business will be up against each other for the finals of the Lincoln University Foundation 2016 South Island Farmer of the Year.

A tertiary network designed to increase the number of high achieving graduates entering the sheep and beef industry is proving hugely successful in only its second year.