Agribusiness

We’re continuing Rural Bank’s commitment to Australian farmers, producers, and regional communities.

Welcome to Bendigo Bank Agribusiness

Rural Bank spent decades partnering with Australian farmers and building up regional communities. Now, as Bendigo Bank Agribusiness, the most trusted bank for Australian farmers*, this commitment will continue. Because we’re serious about farmers and producers and supporting the communities they belong to.

Products that fit the farm

Our range of lending products puts you in charge of your farm’s financial management. You can stay on top of challenges and grab opportunities with confidence.

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Our insights team perform industry deep dives to provide you with research and analysis into commodities, farmland values, business performance and topical agricultural issues.

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Specialists for the primary producer

Our team know the day to day of Australian farmers at a local, regional and national level.

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Hear from our customers

Tom Ashby of North Ashrose Merino Stud, South Australia, is developing new technology to improve efficiency in sheep yards. We understand the value this will bring to the industry and are there to support him.

North Ashrose Merino Stud

So, we’ve been breeding sheep for about 120 years.

My great grandfather started the stud.

In any family farming business, the bank is so important.

Angus is now fifth generation, he is very dedicated towards keeping the property going and you know the future is there for him.

This generation is really lucky because technology has come onto farms now.

I grew up getting the clip board and the piece of paper in the sheep yards and physically reading the ear tag and then actually trying to find that number and flicking over heaps of pages.

Now it’s just a scan with a wand and all the information is there for you.

We’re really lucky that the bank is so supportive of any technology in the future.

We’ve come up with a prototype, hand-held instant micron machine.

It’s in its early stages, but we believe that it’s going to be more efficient on farm to make genetic evaluation on a live animal.

You’re always trying to grow your business and if you’ve got the support of the bank, you can do that.

Ever heard of a jujube? We have, and soon you will too. We helped Bernard McCarthy, Jujube Australia, with finance for a grading machine and cool room facilities, allowing the business to scale up.

Jujube Australia

Not many people know what a jujube is when you first tell them you're a jujube farmer.

The jujube’s a small fruit.

It's crunchy like an apple, but it's around the size of a plum.

In the past, it's been a lot of relying on hand sorting, hand grading.

Now we're trying to find more efficient ways to be able to get the fruit out the door to the customer in the best possible condition.

We've invested in new technology, new machinery to help us become more efficient.

That's critical for us to scale up to be able to meet the higher production that we're now generating.

So, that builds confidence with the bank as well. They can see that we're meeting the levels that we said we're going to meet.

It's a great bank to work with.

They’re with us all the way.

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* Based on Roy Morgan’s survey of 1000+ Australian farmers in June and July 2024.