Need a farm loan? Don’t bank on it being conventional

Andrew Marshall
November 11 2016 - 5:30am
Rabobank Group's executive board member, Berry Marttin at last week's Farm2Fork innovative agriculture event says farm financing options will change because banks alone are unlikely to be able to fund future capital demands. He is pictured with new agribusiness work placement entrepreneurs, Grace Brennan, Warren and Ella Shannon, Cowra, who established AgDraft.
Rabobank Group's executive board member, Berry Marttin at last week's Farm2Fork innovative agriculture event says farm financing options will change because banks alone are unlikely to be able to fund future capital demands. He is pictured with new agribusiness work placement entrepreneurs, Grace Brennan, Warren and Ella Shannon, Cowra, who established AgDraft.

As a new age of investment funding options dawns to offer everything from crowdfunding to disruptive bank-free loans on the internet, farm sector lender Rabobank is testing a few disruptive financing ideas of its own.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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