The 67 meat workers set to lose their jobs from Silver Fern Farms' Frasertown plant will receive a quarter of the redundancy agreement

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The slaughterman whose cruel mistreatment of bobby calves was caught on camera has avoided jail.

A festival celebrating all things meat is coming to New Zealand just a year after its successful debut in Sydney.

NZ meat processors are having to pay more to secure supply of local venison to service their overseas contracts as farmers retain their breeding.

The June 30 deadline for Silver Fern Farms and Chinese food group Shanghai Maling Aquarius will be missed.

The fallout from Silver Fern Farms' decision to axe the bobby calf kill at the co-operative's Fairton plant impacts Mid Canterbury region.

New Zealand's beef and lamb trade will be affected if Britain decides to leave the European Union, says an industry body.

One of New Zealand's largest meat exporters has lost a $1.3 million tax fight with Inland Revenue.

Employers at a Southland meatworks have been vindicated for firing an employee who punched a colleague in the face.

Many types of red meat and red meat products are available, from farmers' markets, to supermarkets, to restaurants.

New Zealand farm venison prices have hit a four-year high, reflecting demand in overseas markets and favourable currency movements.

Taupo Beef has taken out the top spot as the most sustainable New Zealand business, winning the NZI Greatest Contribution to a Sustainable New Zealand award, as well as the Restorative Impact award....

NZ sheep and beef farmers got higher prices in the September quarter, outpacing the rise in the prices they paid.

Employment Court found Affco unlawfully locked out meatworkers from collective bargaining.

A video taken at one of US largest pork producers shows pigs being dragged across the floor, being beaten with paddles, and sick to the point of immobility.

Until I heard about the possibility of processed meats making me sick, my main reason for cutting down was to try and curb the middle age weight gain, writes Sam Judd.

New Zealand lamb prices have improved and look to be heading higher, ASB Bank said.

Recapitalised meat processor's two chairmen hen Wei Ping and Rob Hewett will bring different values to Silver Fern Farms.

The Notice of Meeting and Independent Report for the acquisition of 50 per cent of Silver Fern Farms by Shanghai Maling are revealing.

Alliance chairman Murray Taggart says any Silver Fern merger Farms risks making a "big beached whale" of the meat industry.

Maling's proposal to acquire 50% of Silver Fern Farms reaffirms that Chinese investors are interested in New Zealand's rural and food-based assets.

It's as though there's no institutional memory of the stranglehold giant British meat companies had on the industry stretching back through to 1882, writes Brian Rudman.

Silver Fern Farms, the country's biggest meat processor, says its is forming a 50/50 joint partnership with Chinese investors.

This season's lamb crop is expected to fall by 5.7 per cent compared with last year, says Beef and Lamb New Zealand in its latest season outlook.