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.

Tīmataria tō whai i tō aramahi.

Get ahead and pre‑register for our 2027 Graduate Career Programme: Pre-register here. 

Pasture Youth Scholarship

Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarship

We’re here 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. We’re after motivated students looking ahead towards the challenges facing our sector and already thinking up ideas for how to tackle them.

The future change-makers. Innovators. Future leaders and future legends. Sound like you? Then our Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships could be right for you.

Silver Fern Farms is awarding three $5,000 scholarships to students currently studying towards a relevant NZ qualification and looking to develop their career within the global food industry.

  • Three $5,000 scholarships towards study
  • All expenses paid opportunity to attend our Silver Fern Farms Plate to Pasture Farmer's Conference

Learn more and check out the application criteria.

Check back soon for when our Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships applications open.

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