@article{Barry:336452,
      recid = {336452},
      author = {Barry, Peter J and Escalante, Cesar},
      title = {Structural changes in agricultural banking},
      journal = {Journal of Agricultural Lending},
      address = {1998},
      year = {1998},
      abstract = {Changes in the geographic structure of banking are  creating both challenges and opportunities for community  banks heavily involved in agricultural lending. The  challenges reflect responses to potential bank takeovers or  other competitive inroads in local communities by larger,  more diverse banking systems. In contrast, the local,  personalized, information-intensive relationships between  community banks and their customers offer the opportunities  for developing sustained market niches in meeting these  customers' financing needs. Several factors are keys to  future success in agricultural banking. One is clearly  identifying viable market niches in lending programs and  competing effectively within those niches. A 2nd key is the  banks' ability to maintain strong customer relationships  with their agricultural borrowers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/336452},
}