What is the grass-fed difference?

Before you select red meat products for your family, you want to know you are buying cuts that are delicious, high-quality and nutritious. Silver Fern Farms’ grass-fed products are full of natural goodness and nutrition that have a delicate texture and delicious flavor.

But do you really know what the grass-fed difference means?

Grass-fed means something different in New Zealand. New Zealand has the ideal conditions for grass-based farming; fertile soils, good amounts of sun and rain, a temperate climate, fresh air and clean water.

Silver Fern Farmers raise animals in a natural and more sustainable way, producing high quality, nutritious and delicious red meat. Animals are grass-fed and grass-finished. This means they graze on lush pastures throughout their lives, benefiting from a natural grass diet that enhances the quality. These farming methods help to produce the very best grass-fed red meat products.

Exploring the grass-fed difference


Nutritious
Grass-fed red meat is an excellent source of complete protein and bioavailable iron. It is packed full of nutrients like zinc, selenium, taurine, carnitine, creatine, carnosine vitamins D, B and B12, to name a few. Vitamin B12 is only found naturally in animal products and is essential for growth and development.

Compared to grain-fed, grass-fed red meat:
• Is naturally leaner, with less saturated fat and fewer calories.
• Has higher levels of omega 3 fatty acids, and a healthier omega 3 to omega 6 ratio.
• Is higher in antioxidants, vitamin A and E and conjugated linoleic acids.

Delicious
A diet of nutrient-rich grass produces natural marbling and gives a finer, more delicate texture. It has a yellower coloured fat due to the beta-carotene in the grass (making it more flavorsome, with higher levels of vitamin A).

High-quality
Good grass = quality red meat. Our ability to grow quality, nutritious grass year-round, means we produce animals in a more natural way with little intervention. The result is high quality, tasty, tender red meat.

Taste the difference for yourself, and shop our range of Premium Grass-fed Beef, Lamb, and Venison today. Shop now.