Kick-start your career with Silver Fern Farms through our Graduate and Livestock Programmes.

Future Talent Programmes

A career at Silver Fern Farms could take you almost anywhere you could want to go. As a Global Food Marketing business, Silver Fern Farms offers a huge range of opportunities across Agri-Business, Operations, Sales and Marketing, Technology, Food Quality and the Environment, plus heaps more in the wider business.

Our Future Talent Programmes offer you the opportunity to shape and build your career pathway, empowering you to step up and shape the future of food.

Join Silver Fern Farms to kickstart your career and become a future food champion with us.

Graduate Career Programme

Our Graduate Career Programme is made up of multiple placements tailored to your development. Each placement will see you working across different business units, potentially in a variety of regions across New Zealand.

Through structured learning, hands-on projects, continuous feedback and mentorship, the Silver Fern Farms Graduate Career Programme will give you the chance to grow and have impact, while setting you up for success.

Learn more about how the Silver Fern Farms Graduate Career Programme could work for you.

Check back here for when applications for our 2025 Graduate Career Programme will open!

Livestock Talent Programme

Are you keen to put your passion for agriculture into action? Over the next few years, you could be working your way to becoming a Livestock Representative.

Our Livestock Talent Programme will help you kick-start a bright agricultural career where you will learn, develop and build your skillset on the job, and be provided with development and mentorship opportunities to support you grow your career and become a Livestock Rep.

With us you’ll get more than a new job, you’ll get an exciting career and opportunity to partner with New Zealand farmers to help shape the future of food, for all of us.

Come be part of Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs!

Learn more about building your career to become a Livestock Rep.

Check back here for when applications for our 2025 Livestock Talent Programme will open!

Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarship

Are you looking to make a difference in the global food industry? Do you like to push the boundaries and try new things? Then our Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships could be right for you.

Here at Silver Fern Farms, we offer six annual $5,000 scholarships to students currently studying towards a recognised qualification and looking to develop their career within the food or red-meat industry.