Food Ingredients & Specialty Meat

Silver Fern Farms supply high quality grass-fed animal products to food and nutraceutical manufacturing customers around the globe, providing delicious and nutritious recipe ingredients from the farms the world needs.

Our Range

Raised as nature intended on the lush, open pastures of New Zealand by passionate and skilled farmers. Select from our 100% New Zealand sourced, grass-fed, pasture-raised ovine, bovine & cervine products for full-flavoured, protein-rich, naturally lean and nutritious food ingredients.

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FAQs

Silver Fern Farms operates multiple processing sites across the country. Our facilities are equipped to handle slaughter, processing, and packaging. That means stringent quality control, adherence to strict food safety standards, compliance with international trade requirements, and efficient distribution.

Our temperate climate, clean air and plentiful pure water fuel the year-round growth of lush, green pastures. Animals are raised year-round on this pasture, with the ability to roam and graze freely, with access, if needed, to conserved forages like hay and silage. As a result, animals can eat and live as they would naturally – reducing stress and promoting better animal welfare.

Customers can choose their product packaging to suit. Currently, we offer chilled and frozen products packaged in both lined and liner-less cartons. Other packaging and product formats such as individual ingredient vacuum-packing can be provided in consultation with customer partners.

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Our Global Service Solutions

Our global service solutions team can deliver products tailored to your needs, packing to specification, delivering raw ingredients and specialty meats directly to your manufacturing site, working with toll processors to create recipe solutions, assisting with market access and regulatory documentation, organising in-market third party logistics and more. Our goal is to add value to your business.

Why buy from Silver Fern Farms?

Buy directly from the primary processor
Transparent, co‑operative supply chain with direct farm sourcing—no intermediaries
Certainty of supply
Consistent year-round supply from New Zealand's largest beef, lamb & venison producer
Supply chain security
We are co-founders of New Zealand’s largest supply chain collaboration dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of global goods transportation
Processing to your specifications
Custom processing and collection tailored to your needs, with priority access to specialist product lines
Traceability & documentation
Complete chain of custody with batch tracking back to New Zealand farms for certified, verifiable provenance.
End-to-end supply chain & logistics
Integrated ambient and cold-chain delivery—from farm to border—or Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) direct to your factory (market dependent).

Benefits of Delivered Duty Paid
Predictable costs, reduced risk, sales and logistics support all the way to your door
Global Market Presence
Exporting to 60+ countries with in-market teams across 7 global hubs (UK, China, US, Korea, Japan, NZ, UAE)
Brand development support
Leverage our trusted brand and marketing assets to strengthen your own farm-sourced story and market positioning
Regulatory & compliance support
Guidance with specifications, sustainability, compliance, consumer insights, and marketing to drive growth
High manufacturing standards
Produced in New Zealand in MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries)-approved facilities with audited animal welfare aligned to global standards
Grass-fed quality assurance
Sourced from New Zealand’s closed herd, free from TSEs including BSE and Scrapie.

Our Commitment to Animal Welfare

Our animals are grass-fed and can roam & graze freely, living as they would naturally, reducing stress & promoting better animal welfare. Silver Fern Farms complies with the New Zealand government’s legislative requirements as laid out in the Animal Welfare Act of 1999.

We have comprehensive systems and policies in place to ensure welfare of animals throughout our chain of care. Our processing sites abide by strict animal welfare policies and operate a humane slaughter program to ensure stress to animals is minimised. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) certifies our products against these requirements.

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Traceability

Traceability is important for product safety & quality assurance programs to protect our livestock from disease and harm, as well as farmers' livelihoods and New Zealand’s reputation as a leading supplier of premium farm products. We can geographically trace all sheep, beef, and venison livestock processed at our sites.

In addition, cattle & deer are recorded in the National Animal Identification and Traceability (NAIT) system managed by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), providing auditable evidence of the provenance of our products.

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