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 Agribusiness, Operations and Technical, Sales and Marketing, Technology, Product Innovation, People and Culture, Food Quality and 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 kick start your career and create goodness with us.

Graduate Career Programme

Our Graduate Career Programme is made up of multiple placements tailored to your development. Think of the Graduate Career Programme like sampling different areas of the business to learn, develop, and discover where you thrive. 

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.

Applications for our 2027 programme intake are now closed. 

Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships

We’re ready to meet the future of our industry head-on, but we’ll need inspired thinkers with the drive to make real change to get us there.

Our Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships support talented young people connected to our Co-operative community to grow, develop and build a career in food and farming. We're proud to support the next generation of talent to access opportunities that otherwise may not be available to them. 

Three scholarships of $7,500 each will be awarded to students aged 18-25, studying towards a relevant New Zealand qualification, with our shareholders helping us identify and nominate promising young people from their families, workplaces and communities.

Learn more about our Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships and how to nominate. 

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