Letter from Europe: Shell-shocked banks discover farmers are good credit risks

Financiers are seeing farmers in a new light after the serial crashes of city businesses. As a result, credit might be easier to come-by this year for European dairy farms planning expansion

by NORMAN DUNN

Was there any good news amongst the doom and gloom of the global financial crisis this last winter? It seems there was – and it was directed right at farmers.

Better Farming - April 2009