Banking sector confident in grain growers despite drought

February 2007 presented by Peter Jacobs Peter Jacobs, head of ANZ Rural Banking and a keynote speaker at Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) updates at Adelaide, Wagga Wagga and Bendigo, discusses grain production from the banker's perspective, the banker's perception of the Australian grain grower as a customer, and how the drought has affected the banks' outlook. Mr Jacobs says that he and his fellow bankers hold individual grain production businesses - farms - in high regard for their...