First Light Foods

It has a cult following in the United States and now Kiwi grass-fed meat company First Light is launching its wagyu steak club at home.

Like a wine club, the steak club curates monthly deliveries of the highest marble score wagyu beef for its members.

The steaks are high at a charity auction for some top-quality ribeyes from a rather imposing Wagyu steer.

Last week First Light processed the biggest animal the business has seen in recent memory, at a whopping 946kg.

Covid-19 was a wake-up call for premium meat supplier First Light, but its business was quickly propelled forward using tech that – they discovered – had been with them all along.

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Kiwi exporters struggling to get their products overseas amid Coronavirus pandemic. 

An initiative to reward hard-working supermarket staff going the extra mile amidst the many challenges of Covid-19 has already had a heart-warming response.

Mt Somers farmers Mike and Nicky Salvesen, of Wakare, and Richard and Chrissie Wright, of Tamara Farm have won awards at the Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

The choicest cuts of New Zealand grass-fed wagyu beef is being sold to America's elite for hundreds of dollars a kilogram.

Wagyu beef produced by a New Zealand company is sought after by America's rich.

An elite subscription-based buyers club of high net worth Americans, called The Steak Club, sees prime cuts of New Zealand reared grass-fed wagyu delivered directly to them.