Farm line of credit

Not many people know what a Jujube is when you first tell them that 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 has 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.

Rural Bank was refreshing in that they understood the crop we were growing, they did some figures, they crunched the numbers, they looked at what we’d been doing and came up with an idea of what this crop was worth, not just the value of the land.

We knew at some point as we were increasing our scale we would need to move with technology to help us achieve that, and investing in this grading machine, new cool room facilities has been important to realise that.

Every year we expand, and Rural Bank’s there with us all the way.