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Meat company Silver Fern Farms has poached a top executive from Zespri to be its new chief executive next year.

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.

Silver Fern Farms chief executive Dean Hamilton will leave the company end of the year.

Declining sheep numbers are blamed for the decision to close Silver Fern Farms’ Fairton lamb processing works near Ashburton.

Genetic selection for taste seems to outweigh other onfarm factors such as breed, lamb gender or fat cover in the eating quality of lamb, says Grant Howie, general manager sales, Silver Fern Farms.

Meat processor Silver Fern Farms is consolidating the operations of its two Waikato bobby calf processing facilities.

The red meat sector is too commodity-focused and must move further up the value chain, says Silver Fern Farms chairman Rob Hewett.

Silver Fern Farms (SFF) is urging its non-shared farmer suppliers to become shareholders.

Silver Fern Farms’ Pareora plant just south of Timaru can now offer its staff full-time work for 52 weeks, rather than the seasonal work of the past.