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                                                                    Exhibit 10.2

                          PENFORD HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED
                                   ('ISSUER')

                             ANZ CAPEL COURT LIMITED
                                   ('TRUSTEE')

                              DEBENTURE TRUST DEED
                      CREATING THE PENFORD DEBENTURE TRUST

                                 MINTER ELLISON
                                     Lawyers
                             Minter Ellison Building
                                 44 Martin Place
                                 SYDNEY NSW 2000

                                  DX 117 Sydney
                            Telephone (02) 9210 4444
                            Facsimile (02) 9235 2711
                           Reference AMN/RCA:10890732

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.       INTERPRETATION........................................................1
         1.1     Definitions...................................................1
         1.2     Interpretation...............................................11
         1.3     Calculation of amounts.......................................12

2.       DECLARATION, TERM AND NAME OF TRUST..................................12
         2.1     Declaration of Trust.........................................12
         2.2     Term.........................................................12

3.       TRUSTEE..............................................................12
         3.1     Appointment of Trustee.......................................12
         3.2     General powers...............................................13
         3.3     Authority of Trustee.........................................14
         3.4     Instructions of Debenture Holders............................14
         3.5     No obligation to investigate authority.......................15
         3.6     Notification to Debenture Holders............................15
         3.7     Notification to Trustee......................................16
         3.8     Exoneration..................................................16
         3.9     Delegation and appointment of attorneys......................16
         3.10    Dealings between the Issuer and Trustee......................17
         3.11    Independent investigation of credit..........................17
         3.12    Exercise of powers by corporate trustee......................17
         3.13    Trustee as a Debenture Holder................................18
         3.14    Indemnity to Trustee.........................................18
         3.15    No monitoring................................................18
         3.16    Recognition of Transaction Documents.........................19
         3.17    Agent........................................................19

4.       DISTRIBUTION OF RECOVERED FUNDS......................................20
         4.1     Money to be distributed on receipt...........................20
         4.2     Money held or to be held in suspense account.................20
         4.3     Manner of distribution.......................................20
         4.4     No objection.................................................21
         4.5     Repayment to Trustee.........................................21
         4.6     Distributions amongst Debenture Holders......................22
         4.7     Adjustments between Debenture Holders........................22
         4.8     Payments from Debenture Holder to the Trustee................23
         4.9     Suspense account.............................................23

5.       DEBENTURE HOLDERS....................................................23
         5.1     Rights and obligations of Debenture Holders..................23
         5.2     Trustee: exercise of discretion..............................23

6.       CREATION, ISSUE AND REDEMPTION OF DEBENTURES.........................24
         6.1     Issue of Debentures..........................................24
         6.2     Issue Notice.................................................24
         6.3     Surrender and redemption of Debentures.......................24
         6.4     Notices to Trustee...........................................25
         6.5     Cancellation.................................................25
         6.6     Transfer of Debentures.......................................25

7.       RESTRICTIONS ON DEBENTURES...........................................26

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         7.1     Limitation on Issue Notices..................................26
         7.2     Minimum principal amount.....................................27

8.       REGISTERS AND CERTIFICATES...........................................27
         8.1     Register.....................................................27
         8.2     Conclusiveness of Register...................................27
         8.3     Certificates.................................................28
         8.4     Execution of Debenture Certificates..........................28
         8.5     Register available for inspection............................28

9.       FUNDING PERIODS......................................................28
         9.1     Funding Notice...............................................28
         9.2     Selection of Funding Periods.................................28
         9.3     Funding Periods: restrictions................................28
         9.4     Failure to select Funding Period.............................29

10.      INTEREST.............................................................29

11.      REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AMOUNT........................................29
         11.1    Repayment....................................................29
         11.2    Mandatory repayments.........................................29
         11.3    Final repayment..............................................30

12.      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.......................................30
         12.1    Representations and warranties...............................30
         12.2    Representations and warranties repeated......................34

13.      REPORTING OBLIGATIONS AND ACCESS.....................................34
         13.1    Notices to the Agent.........................................34
         13.2    Accounts and other information...............................35
         13.3    Preparation and form of Accounts and reports.................36
         13.4    Giving access to Secured Property............................37
         13.5    Investigating Accountants....................................37
         13.6    Confidentiality..............................................37

14.      GENERAL AND FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS....................................38
         14.1    Positive obligations.........................................38
         14.2    Negative obligations.........................................40

15.      EVENTS OF DEFAULT....................................................42
         15.1    Events of Default............................................42
         15.2    Effect of Event of Default...................................45

16.      INCREASED COSTS......................................................46
         16.1    Increased costs..............................................46
         16.2    Method of calculation........................................46

17.      ILLEGALITY...........................................................46

18.      FEES.................................................................47

19.      COSTS AND EXPENSES...................................................47

20.      TAXES................................................................48
         20.1    Issuer to pay Taxes..........................................48

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         20.2    Fines and penalties..........................................48
         20.3    Goods and Services Tax.......................................48
         20.4    Deduction or withholding required............................49

21.      GENERAL INDEMNITY....................................................49

22.      DEFAULT INTEREST.....................................................50
         22.1    Default interest.............................................50
         22.2    Interest following judgment..................................50
         22.3    Capitalisation...............................................50

23.      REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE...............................................51
         23.1    Retirement...................................................51
         23.2    Removal......................................................51
         23.3    Further assurance by retiring Trustee........................51

24.      REVOCATION AND AMENDMENT OF TRUST DEED...............................52

25.      NOTICES..............................................................52
         25.1    Requirements.................................................52
         25.2    Effect.......................................................52
         25.3    Deemed receipt...............................................53
         25.4    Notice provisions in other Transaction Documents.............53

26.      TRUSTEE'S LIMITATION OF LIABILITY PROTECTION.........................53
         26.1    Capacity of Trustee..........................................53
         26.2    No personal liability........................................53
         26.3    Exclusion....................................................53

27.      PRESERVING THE TRUSTEE'S AND DEBENTURE HOLDERS' POWERS...............54
         27.1    Preservation.................................................54
         27.2    No obligation to exercise rights or give consent.............54
         27.3    Consent and waivers..........................................54
         27.4    Powers.......................................................54
         27.5    Choice of securities and Guarantees..........................54
         27.6    Indemnities generally........................................55
         27.7    Moratorium legislation.......................................55

28.      OTHER PROVISIONS.....................................................55
         28.1    Payments and receipts in foreign currency....................55
         28.2    Further assurances...........................................55
         28.3    Notification from Issuer.....................................56
         28.4    Trustee and Debenture Holders may set off....................56
         28.5    Issuer must not set off......................................56
         28.6    Surplus proceeds.............................................57
         28.7    Applying receipts............................................57
         28.8    Notices or demands as evidence...............................57
         28.9    Severability.................................................57
         28.10   Variation of this document...................................58
         28.11   Authorised Officers and communications.......................58
         28.12   Assignment...................................................58
         28.13   The Trustee or a Debenture Holder may disclose information...58
         28.14   Certain notices or demands...................................58
         28.15   If due date not a Business Day...............................59

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         28.16   Severability.................................................59
         28.17   Governing law and jurisdiction...............................59
         28.18   Attorneys....................................................59
         28.19   Counterparts.................................................59

SCHEDULE 1 -- FORM OF DEBENTURE...............................................60

SCHEDULE 2 -- ISSUE NOTICE....................................................63

SCHEDULE 3 -- FUNDING NOTICE..................................................64

SCHEDULE 4 -- APPLICABLE MARGIN...............................................65

SCHEDULE 5 -- REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AMOUNT...................................66

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                              DEBENTURE TRUST DEED

DEED             dated                                                  2000

BETWEEN          PENFORD HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED ACN 094 279 339 of 170 Epping
                 Road, Lane Cove, NSW 2066 ('ISSUER')

AND              ANZ CAPEL COURT LIMITED ACN 004 768 807 of Level 2, 20 Martin
                 Place, Sydney, NSW 2000 in its capacity as debenture trustee of
                 the Penford Debenture Trust (in this capacity, 'TRUSTEE')

RECITALS

A.      The Issuer intends to issue Australian dollar interest bearing
        debentures under this document.

B.      The Issuer has agreed to enter into this document in order to make
        provision for the appointment of a trustee for Debenture Holders.

C.      The Trustee has agreed for the consideration expressed in this document
        to act as trustee of the trusts created by this document, on the terms
        contained in this document.

1.      INTERPRETATION

1.1     DEFINITIONS

        In this document, unless the contrary intention appears, the following
        words and expressions have the meanings indicated.

        'ACCOUNTING STANDARDS' means, in respect of a company, generally
        accepted accounting principles and practices consistently applied in the
        country of incorporation of that company, including any domestically
        accepted international accounting standards.

        'ACCOUNTS' means profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, cash flow
        statements and statements, reports (including auditors' reports and
        directors' reports) and notes attached to, or intended to be read with,
        any of them.

        'AGENT' means ANZ or any other person appointed pursuant to the
        Intercreditor Agreement to do the things specified in clause 3.17(a).

        'ANZ' means Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ACN 005 357
        522.

        'APPLICABLE MARGIN' means the applicable margin determined in accordance
        with Schedule 4.

        'ATTORNEY' means an attorney appointed under a Transaction Document.

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        'AUTHORISATION' includes:

        (a)     any consent, authorisation, registration, filing, agreement,
                notarisation, certificate, permission, licence, approval or
                exemption from, by or with a Public Authority; or

        (b)     in relation to anything which is prohibited or restricted by law
                if a Public Authority takes certain action within a specified
                period, the expiry of that period without the Public Authority
                taking that action.

        'AUTHORISED OFFICER' means:

        (a)     in respect of the Issuer, any director or secretary of the
                Issuer or any person appointed by the Issuer and notified in
                writing to the Trustee and Agent from time to time to act as an
                Authorised Officer for the purposes of the Transaction
                Documents. (The notice must be signed by the company secretary
                or a director of the Issuer and be given to the Trustee and the
                Agent with a specimen signature of the person); and

        (b)     in respect of the Trustee, the Agent or a Debenture Holder, a
                person holding or acting in the office of director, chief
                executive or secretary or whose title includes the word
                'Manager', 'President' or 'Vice-President' or a person
                performing the functions of any of those offices, any duly
                appointed attorney of the Trustee or any person appointed by,
                respectively, the Trustee, or a Debenture Holder from time to
                time to act as an Authorised Officer for the purposes of the
                Transaction Documents and notified in writing to the Issuer, the
                Trustee and the Agent.

        'BANK BILL RATE' means, for a period:

        (a)     the average bid rate which is shown at approximately 10.15am on
                page 'BBSY' on the Reuters Monitor System on the first day of
                that period for bank accepted Bills having a term equal or
                approximately equal to that period;

        (b)     if:

                (i)     it is not possible for any reason for the Agent to
                        determine the Bank Bill Rate under paragraph (a); or

                (ii)    in the Agent's opinion, the basis on which the rate
                        referred to in paragraph (a) is calculated has changed
                        adversely to Debenture Holders,

                the Bank Bill Rate will be the average, rounded upwards if
                necessary to four decimal places and expressed as a yield
                percentage per annum, of the bid rates quoted by each Reference
                Bank at or about 10.30am on that day (or such number of
                Reference Banks as provide quotes to the Agent at that time on
                that day), for bank accepted Bills having a term as described
                above, as conclusively determined in good faith by the Agent; or

        (c)     if it is not possible for any reason for the Agent to determine
                the Bank Bill Rate under paragraphs (a) or (b) above, the Bank
                Bill Rate will be the rate determined by the Agent in good faith
                to be its cost of funds for that period.

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        'BILL' means a bill of exchange as defined in the Bills of Exchange Act
        1909 (Cth), but does not include a cheque.

        'BUSINESS DAY' means a weekday on which banks are open for general
        banking business in Sydney.

        'COLLATERAL SECURITY' means any Security Interest, Guarantee or other
        document or agreement at any time created or entered into as security
        for any Secured Money including, but not limited to, any Security
        Interest, Guarantee or other document or agreement that:

        (a)     the Trustee is a party to; or

        (b)     is given for the benefit of the Trustee,

        in its capacity as trustee of the Trust, or otherwise on behalf of the
        Debenture Holders but does not include the Letter of Credit.

        'CONTESTED TAX' means a Tax assessed as payable by the Issuer where the
        Issuer:

        (a)     is diligently contesting the Tax in good faith and in accordance
                with proper procedures and laws;

        (b)     is not required by applicable law to pay the Tax before the
                contest has been decided; and

        (c)     has set aside sufficient reserves of liquid assets to pay the
                Tax and any fine, penalty, interest or other cost payable if the
                contest is unsuccessful.

        'CURRENT FINANCIAL INFORMATION' means, at any time, the latest Accounts,
        reports and other financial information provided by the Issuer to the
        Agent under this document.

        'DEBENTURE' means a debenture issued by the Issuer strictly in
        accordance with this document.

        'DEBENTURE CERTIFICATE' means a certificate issued under clause 8.

        'DEBENTURE HOLDER' means, at any time, any person who at that time is
        entered on the Register as holding a Debenture.

        'DEBENTURE HOLDER DEBT' means, in relation to a Debenture Holder on any
        given day, the aggregate face value of Debentures held by the Debenture
        Holder on that day as determined by clause 1.3, whether owing to the
        Debenture Holder directly, or beneficially or as trustee or agent, or in
        any other capacity.

        'DEFAULT RATE' has the meaning given to it in clause 22 (Default
        interest).

        'DERIVATIVE TRANSACTION' means any agreement or transaction which is:

        (a)     a futures contract (including a futures contract as defined in
                the Corporations Law); or

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        (b)     a 'Specified Transaction' as defined in the 1992 ISDA Master
                Agreement or a 'Transaction' as defined in the 1996 ISDA Equity
                Derivatives Definitions (both as published by the International
                Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.),

        or any other agreement or transaction of a similar nature or effect to
        any of the above.

        'DOLLARS' and '$' means Australian dollars.

        'ENVIRONMENT' means the physical and radiative factors of the
        surroundings of persons including the land, waters, atmosphere, climate,
        sound, odours, taste, electromagnetism, radioactivity, the biological
        factors of animals and plants and the social factor of aesthetics.

        'ENVIRONMENTAL LAW' means a law regulating or otherwise relating to the
        Environment, including any law relating to land or water use, planning,
        building, heritage, coastal protection, water catchments, pollution,
        noise, smell, soil or ground water contamination, soil conservation,
        nature conservation, chemicals, waste, use of dangerous goods or
        hazardous substances, public and occupational health and safety, noxious
        trades or any other aspect of protection of the Environment or any
        person or property.

        'ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY' means any obligation or Loss under an
        Environmental Law imposed on the Issuer (or any of its officers), the
        Trustee (or any of its officers), the Agent (or any of its officers), a
        Debenture Holder (or any of its officers), or any occupier of a
        Property, as a result of activities carried on during the ownership or
        occupation of the Property by any person at any time.

        'EVENT OF DEFAULT' means each event specified in clause 15.1 (Events of
        Default).

        'EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATOR' means an administrator, receiver, receiver and
        manager, trustee, provisional liquidator, liquidator or any other person
        (however described) holding or appointed to an analogous office or
        acting or purporting to act in an analogous capacity.

        'FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS' means any actual or contingent debt or other
        monetary liability arising in respect of money borrowed or raised or any
        financial accommodation provided, including in respect of any:

        (a)     Bill, bond, debenture, note or similar instrument; or

        (b)     acceptance, endorsement or discounting arrangement; or

        (c)     Guarantee;

        (d)     trade or vendor financing or deferred purchase price (for more
                than 90 days) of any asset or service;

        (e)     a lease constituting, or accounted for in a similar way to, a
                finance lease or capitalised lease under Accounting Standards;

        (f)     obligation to deliver goods or other property or provide
                services paid for in advance by any Trustee or in relation to
                any other financing transaction;

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        (g)     redemption of any preference shares or acquisition of redeemable
                preference shares; or

        (h)     Derivative Transaction.

        'FUNDING NOTICE' means a notice given in accordance with clause 9.1 of
        this document.

        'FUNDING PERIOD' means, in relation to a Debenture, the period (if any)
        selected for that Debenture in the Funding Notice in respect of that
        Debenture or the period otherwise determined under this document.

        'GST' has the meaning given in the GST Law.

        'GST LAW' means A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.

        'GUARANTEE' means a guarantee, indemnity, letter of credit, letter of
        comfort or any other obligation or irrevocable offer (whatever it is
        called and whatever its nature):

        (a)     to provide funds (whether by the advance or payment of money,
                the purchase of or subscription for shares or other securities,
                the purchase of assets or services, or otherwise) for the
                payment or discharge of;

        (b)     to indemnify any person against the consequences of default in
                the payment of; or

        (c)     to be responsible for,

        an obligation or monetary liability of another person, a dividend,
        distribution, capital or premium on shares, debenture or other
        interests, or the solvency or financial condition of another person.

        'INSOLVENCY' of a person includes:

        (a)     the Winding Up of the person;

        (b)     the appointment of an External Administrator to the person;

        (c)     any composition, compromise, arrangement, merger, amalgamation,
                reconstruction, administration, assignment for the benefit of
                creditors or insolvency of, by, or adversely affecting the
                person and any procedure which is equivalent or analogous in any
                jurisdiction; and

        (d)     the death or permanent incapacity of the person.

        'INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY' means any intellectual or industrial property
        including:

        (a)     any patent, trade mark (whether registered or common law), trade
                name, copyright, registered design, trade secret, confidential
                information, know-how or computer program; and

        (b)     any licence or other right to use or to grant the use of or to
                be the registered owner or user of any of them.

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        'INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT' has the meaning given in the US Credit
        Agreement.

        'INTEREST RATE' means the Bank Bill Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

        'ISSUE DATE' means a date on which debentures are or are to be issued
        under this document.

        'ISSUE NOTICE' means a notice given in accordance with clause 6.2 of
        this document.

        'ISSUER PARTY' means the Issuer and each Subsidiary of the Issuer.

        'LEASE' means any arrangement whereby an asset may be used or managed by
        a person other than the owner. It includes a sub-lease, lease of a
        lease, management agreement or licence.

        'LETTER OF CREDIT' has the meaning given to it in the US Credit
        Agreement.

        'LEVERAGE RATIO' has the meaning given to it in the US Credit Agreement.

        'LOSS' means a loss, claim, action, damage, liability, cost, charge,
        expense, penalty, compensation, fine, outgoing or payment suffered, paid
        or incurred.

        'MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT' means a material adverse effect on:

        (a)     the effectiveness of, or the ability of the Issuer to observe
                its obligations under, a Transaction Document;

        (b)     the market value or marketability of any asset the subject of a
                Collateral Security; or

        (c)     the financial condition or business of the Issuer.

        'MATERIAL DOCUMENT' means:

        (a)     the sale agreement dated 29 August 2000 for the Purchase;

        (b)     the 'Hi-maize Supply Agreement' dated 29 August 2000 between
                PAL, Goodman Fielder Mills Limited, Quality Bakers Australia
                Limited and The Uncle Tobys Company Limited;

        (c)     the 'Hi-maize Access Deed' dated 29 August 2000 between the
                Issuer, PAL, Quality Bakers Australia Limited and Goodman
                Fielder Limited; and

        (d)     the letter of offer dated 26 September 2000 by BNP Pacific
                (Australia) Limited to PAL.

        'PAL' means Penford Australia Limited ACN 003 780 229 (formerly Starch
        Australasia Limited).

        'PENFORD SECURITY TRUST' means the trust established by the Penford
        Security Trust Deed.

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        'PENFORD SECURITY TRUST DEED' means the security trust deed described as
        such between PAL and the Trustee dated on or about the date of this
        document.

        'PERMITTED FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS' means Financial Indebtedness
        permitted under the Financing Documents and the facility for $12 million
        granted to the Borrower by BNP Pacific (Australia) Limited pursuant to
        the letter of offer dated 20 September 2000.

        'PERMITTED SECURITY INTEREST' means, in relation to a person:

        (a)     a Collateral Security over any of the person's assets;

        (b)     a Security Interest over any of the person's assets to which the
                Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Debenture Holders)
                has consented, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
                delayed. It does not include a Security Interest to which the
                Trustee has consented on one or more conditions if those
                conditions are not complied with; and

        (c)     a lien or charge arising by operation of law in the ordinary
                course of the person's ordinary business. It does not include a
                lien or charge that secures debts overdue for more than 10
                Business Days or debts for more than $50,000.

        'POTENTIAL EVENT OF DEFAULT' means any event, thing or circumstance
        which with the giving of notice or passage of time or both would become
        an Event of Default.

        'POWER' means any right, power, discretion or remedy of the Trustee, a
        Debenture Holder, a Receiver or an Attorney under any Transaction
        Document or applicable law.

        'PRINCIPAL AMOUNT' in respect of a Debenture means the face value of the
        Debenture less all amounts of principal repaid.

        'PROPERTY' means all real property leased, occupied, used in relation to
        or necessary for its business or owned by any Issuer Party at any time.

        'PROPORTION' means, in relation to a Debenture Holder, at any time the
        proportion of the Debenture Holder Debt for that Debenture Holder at
        that time to the aggregate of the Total Debenture Holder Debt at that
        time.

        'PUBLIC AUTHORITY' includes the Crown, any government and any
        governmental, semi-governmental, public, administrative, regulatory or
        judicial entity. It includes a Minister, a statutory corporation, a
        self-regulatory organisation or supervisory authority established by
        statute and any stock or futures exchange.

        'PURCHASE' means the purchase by the Issuer of PAL.

        'RECEIVER' means a receiver or receiver and manager appointed under a
        Collateral Security.

        'RECORDS' means all the information which relates in any way to a
        specified person's business or any transaction entered into by the
        person, whether the information is recorded electronically, magnetically
        or otherwise.

        'REFERENCE BANK' means each of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia,
        National Australia Bank Limited and Westpac Banking Corporation, and any
        other bank

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        appointed as a Reference Bank, in addition to or in place of any of
        them, by agreement between the Issuer and the Trustee (acting on the
        instructions of the Debenture Holders).

        'REGISTER' means the register of Debentures and Debenture Holders to be
        maintained by the Trustee under this document.

        'RELATED ENTITY' of an entity means an entity which is related to the
        first entity under section 50 of the Corporations Law.

        'RELEVANT DOCUMENT' means a Transaction Document or a Material Document.

        'REQUIRED LENDERS' has the meaning given to it in the Intercreditor
        Agreement.

        'SECURED MONEY' means:

        (a)     all money that the Issuer now owes or in the future may come to
                owe, actually or contingently, for any reason, to one or more of
                the Debenture Holders or to any combination of Debenture Holders
                in connection with any Debenture; and

        (b)     all money that the Issuer now owes or in the future may come to
                owe, actually or contingently, for any reason under a
                Transaction Document including, but not limited to, all moneys
                expressed to be 'Secured Money'.

        It includes any amount which the Issuer owes a Debenture Holder under a
        Transaction Document if one or more facts become known or events occur.
        This includes any amount which may arise under or in relation to an
        obligation, document or agreement existing at that time, and any amount
        which may arise out of or in relation to circumstances existing,
        foreseeable or contemplated at that time.

        Where the Issuer would have owed money but for its Insolvency, it will
        be taken still to owe that money.

        'SECURED PROPERTY' means all property the subject of a Collateral
        Security.

        'SECURITY' means:

        (a)     any Security Interest or Guarantee given to the Trustee as
                security for the payment of the Secured Money;

        (b)     any other Security Interest which the Trustee is given as
                trustee of the Trust; or

        (c)     any document which the Issuer and the Trustee agree is a
                Security.

        'SECURITY INTEREST' means a mortgage, charge, lien or pledge or any
        other right by way of security (including a right of set-off in respect
        of a deposit or a right to retain funds the subject of a flawed deposit
        arrangement) of a creditor to have its claims satisfied before other
        creditors with or from the proceeds of any asset.

        'STARCH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED' means Starch New Zealand Limited a duly
        incorporated company having its registered office at Auckland and having
        the company number AK163345.

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        'SUBSCRIBER' means a person who agrees under a Subscription Agreement to
        subscribe for Debentures.

        'SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT' means any document designated by the Trustee
        and the Issuer as a subscription agreement for the purposes of this
        document.

        'SUBSIDIARY' of an entity means an entity that is:

        (a)     a subsidiary of the first entity under section 46 of the
                Corporations Law; or

        (b)     a subsidiary of, or otherwise controlled by, the first entity
                under any Accounting Standard in Australia.

        'TAX' means a tax, levy, duty or charge (and associated penalty or
        interest) imposed by a Public Authority. It includes stamp duty and
        other taxes of a similar nature, income tax, withholding tax, GST and
        transaction taxes and duties, but does not include tax on the overall
        net income of the Trustee or a Debenture Holder.

        'TERMINATION DATE' means the maturity date specified in a Debenture
        Certificate or any earlier date on which the Secured Money becomes due
        and payable under this document or another Transaction Document.

        'TOTAL DEBENTURE HOLDER DEBT' means, on any given day, the sum of all
        Debenture Holder Debts on that day.

        'TRANCHE 1 DEBENTURE' means a Debenture in respect of which it is stated
        on the Debenture Certificate to be a Tranche 1 Debenture.

        'TRANCHE 2 DEBENTURE' means a Debenture in respect of which it is stated
        on the Debenture Certificate to be a Tranche 2 Debenture.

        'TRANSACTION DOCUMENT' means each of:

        (a)     this document and any Debentures;

        (b)     the Subscription Agreement;

        (c)     the fixed and floating charge granted by the Issuer in favour of
                the Trustee over its present and future assets in New South
                Wales and Victoria;

        (d)     the future asset charge granted by the Issuer in favour of the
                Trustee over its future assets outside New South Wales and
                Victoria and over its present assets in the Australian Capital
                Territory and the Northern Territory;

        (e)     the fixed and floating charge granted by PAL in favour of the
                Trustee over its present and future assets in New South Wales
                and Victoria;

        (f)     the fixed and floating charge granted by PAL in favour of the
                Trustee over its present assets outside New South Wales and
                Victoria limited to $3,000,000;

        (g)     the future asset charge granted by PAL in favour of the Trustee
                over its future assets outside New South Wales and Victoria and
                over its present assets in the Australian Capital Territory and
                the Northern Territory;

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        (h)     the fixed and floating charge granted by Starch New Zealand
                Limited in favour of the Trustee over all its present and future
                assets;

        (i)     the guarantee and indemnity from PAL on account of the Issuer in
                favour of the Trustee;

        (j)     the guarantee and indemnity from Starch New Zealand Limited on
                account of the Issuer in favour of the Trustee;

        (k)     the real property mortgages from each of PAL and Starch New
                Zealand Limited over all real property owned by them;

        (l)     a Collateral Security;

        (m)     a document that the Issuer and the Trustee (acting on the
                instructions of the Debenture Holders) agree is a Transaction
                Document; and

        (n)     a document entered into or given under or in connection with, or
                for the purpose of amending or novating, any Transaction
                Document.

        'TRUST' means the trust established under this document.

        'TRUSTEE' means ANZ Capel Court Limited and any other party appointed as
        trustee of the Trust in accordance with clause 23 of this document.

        'TRUST FUND' means:

        (a)     the amount held by the Trustee under clause 2.1 (Declaration of
                Trust);

        (b)     each Security; and

        (c)     any other property acquired or held by the Trustee as trustee of
                the Trust, including:

                (i)     the benefit of any representation, warranty, undertaking
                        or covenant;

                (ii)    any property representing the proceeds of sale or
                        enforcement of any property forming part of the Trust
                        Fund;

                (iii)   any property representing the proceeds of any insurance
                        claims payable to the Trustee in that capacity; and

                (iv)    any property into which any other property forming part
                        of the Trust Fund is converted or invested and the
                        property representing the proceeds of any such property.

        'US CREDIT AGREEMENT' means the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
        dated as of 15 November 2000 between Penford Corporation, Penford
        Products Co., certain commercial lending institutions and The Bank of
        Nova Scotia.

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        'WINDING UP' includes:

        (a)     dissolution, liquidation, provisional liquidation and
                bankruptcy; and

        (b)     any analogous or equivalent procedure in any jurisdiction.

1.2     INTERPRETATION

        Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation. The
        following rules apply unless the context requires otherwise:

        (a)     the singular includes the plural and the converse; and

        (b)     one gender includes all genders; and

        (c)     other grammatical forms of defined words or expressions have
                corresponding meanings; and

        (d)     a reference to a party to this document includes that party's
                successors and permitted substitutes or assigns; and

        (e)     a reference to a document or agreement includes that document or
                agreement as amended, novated, supplemented or replaced from
                time to time except to the extent prohibited by a Transaction
                Document; and

        (f)     a reference to any thing includes the whole or any part of that
                thing and a reference to a group of things or persons includes
                each thing or person in that group; and

        (g)     references to clauses, schedules and annexures are references to
                clauses of and schedules and annexures to this document; and

        (h)     references to 'persons' or words implying natural persons
                include bodies corporate, joint ventures, partnerships, trusts,
                associations, unincorporated bodies and Public Authorities; and

        (i)     references to 'entities' include entities as defined for any
                purpose under Accounting Standards; and

        (j)     an example does not limit what else might be included.
                Mentioning anything after 'include', 'includes' or 'including'
                does not limit what else might be included; and

        (k)     a reference to time is a reference to Sydney time; and

        (l)     an Event of Default subsists until it has been waived in writing
                by the Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Debenture
                Holders) or remedied to the satisfaction of the Trustee (acting
                on the instructions of the Debenture Holders); and

        (m)     'writing' and cognate expressions includes a facsimile
                transmission, any electronic communication that can be printed
                in hard copy and any means of reproducing words in a tangible
                and permanently visible form; and

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        (n)     'dollars' and '$' refer to Australian currency; and

        (o)     a reference to an agreement includes any legally enforceable
                arrangement, understanding, undertaking or representation
                whether or not in writing; and

        (p)     a reference to 'property' or an 'asset' includes a reference to
                any right or interest in, or right to use, property or assets,
                to future property or assets, to things in action and to
                intangible property or assets; and

        (q)     a reference to any legislation or statutory instrument or
                regulation is construed in accordance with the Acts
                Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) or the equivalent State
                legislation, as applicable.

1.3     CALCULATION OF AMOUNTS

        (a)     In determining the amount of the Secured Money owed to a
                Debenture Holder, the Trustee will rely on the most recent
                certificate from the applicable Debenture Holder, which
                certificate will, in the absence of manifest error, be prima
                facie evidence of the facts stated in it. The Trustee is under
                no obligation to enquire about the accuracy, validity or
                genuineness of such a certificate and will be under no
                obligation to the Issuer or any Debenture Holder if it acts in
                accordance with this document or a Transaction Document in
                reliance on such a certificate.

        (b)     This clause 1.3 is for the benefit of the Trustee and the
                Debenture Holders only. The Issuer may not seek to rely on
                anything contemplated by this clause to reduce, abrogate,
                repudiate or otherwise lessen its obligations under this
                document or any other Transaction Document.

2.      DECLARATION, TERM AND NAME OF TRUST

2.1     DECLARATION OF TRUST

        (a)     The Trustee declares that it holds the sum of $10, and will hold
                the Trust Fund, on trust for the Debenture Holders on the terms
                of this document.

        (b)     The Trust will be known as the 'Penford Debenture Trust'.

2.2     TERM

        The Trust commences on the date of this document and, unless determined
        earlier, ends on the day immediately before the date which is 80 years
        from the date of this document.

3.      TRUSTEE

3.1     APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEE

        The Trustee is appointed to act as trustee of the Trust Fund for the
        Debenture Holders in connection with the Transaction Documents.

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3.2     GENERAL POWERS

        The Trustee has, in addition to the powers otherwise conferred under
        this document or on trustees by law, the following powers:

        (a)     to distribute, in accordance with clause 4, money received:

                (i)     by the Trustee under a Transaction Document; and

                (ii)    from the Issuer in connection with any Transaction
                        Document or Debentures; and

                (iii)   from a Debenture Holder in accordance with clause 4.8;
                        and

        (b)     to exercise all powers and discretions conferred on the Trustee
                under a Transaction Document; and

        (c)     to open any account or accounts with any bank or banks and to
                operate by and in all usual ways any such account or accounts;
                and

        (d)     to give effectual receipts and discharges for any moneys
                received by or on behalf of the Trustee or otherwise relating to
                any of the acts, matters and things provided for in this
                document; and

        (e)     to take such action as it thinks fit for the adequate protection
                of any part or parts of the Trust Fund; and

        (f)     to take and to act on the written opinion of an attorney-at-law
                or counsel practising in any country where the Trust Fund or any
                part thereof may for the time being be invested in relation to:

                (i)     the interpretation or effect of this document or any
                        other document or statute; or

                (ii)    the administration of the Trust, without being liable to
                        any Debenture Holder in respect of any act done by the
                        Trustee in accordance with such opinion,

                provided that nothing in this provision will:

                (iii)   prohibit or impede the Trustee from applying to any
                        court if it thinks fit; or

                (iv)    permit the Trustee to act in a manner inconsistent with
                        the directions of the Debenture Holders; and

        (g)     to take and to act on any written direction of all Debenture
                Holders without being liable to any Debenture Holder in respect
                of any act done by the Trustee in accordance with any such
                direction; and

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        (h)     to permit any asset of the Trust to be held or registered in the
                name of any nominee of the Trustee and to deposit assets,
                securities and documents belonging or related to the Fund with
                any person; and

        (i)     generally to exercise or to concur in exercising all the powers
                and discretions contained in this document or otherwise by law
                conferred notwithstanding that the Trustee or (if more than one
                person is the Trustee) any person being a Trustee or any person
                being a director or shareholder of the Trustee (being a
                company):

                (i)     has or may have a direct or personal interest in the
                        mode or result of exercising such power or discretion;
                        or

                (ii)    may benefit either directly or indirectly as a result of
                        the exercise of any such power or discretion, and
                        notwithstanding that the Trustee for the time being is
                        the sole Trustee; and

        (j)     to exercise all powers and discretions which:

                (i)     are incidental to any of the powers or discretions
                        specified above; or

                (ii)    all Debenture Holders direct the Trustee to exercise.

3.3     AUTHORITY OF TRUSTEE

        The Trustee is authorised to:

        (a)     enter into, and exercise those Powers expressly given to the
                Trustee under, the Transaction Documents together with any
                reasonably incidental rights, powers, discretions or remedies;
                and

        (b)     take any action necessary or appropriate to give effect to the
                instructions given to it by the Debenture Holders.

        The Trustee has no responsibilities or duties except those expressed in
        the Transaction Documents.

3.4     INSTRUCTIONS OF DEBENTURE HOLDERS

        (a)     In exercising its Powers under the Transaction Documents, the
                Trustee must act in accordance with the instructions (if any) of
                the Debenture Holders.

        (b)     In the absence of any such instructions, or where the provision
                concerning a Power does not specify that the Trustee must act on
                the instructions of the Debenture Holders, the Trustee may (but
                is not obliged to) act as it thinks fit in the best interests of
                the Debenture Holders.

        (c)     Despite the above, the Trustee is not obliged to take any action
                under the Transaction Documents until it is first indemnified to
                its satisfaction:

                (i)     out of the Trust Fund under clause 3.14 (Indemnity to
                        Trustee); or

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                (ii)    by each Debenture Holder rateably in accordance with its
                        Proportion (to the extent the Trustee has not been
                        indemnified by a Debenture Holder under the Transaction
                        Documents or under paragraph (i)),

                against any Loss it believes it will suffer, pay or incur in
                taking that action (other than in its capacity as a Debenture
                Holder).

        (d)     Despite any other provision of this document or any provision of
                a Transaction Document, the Trustee must not:

                (i)     give a final release or discharge of any Transaction
                        Document; or

                (ii)    demand repayment of money secured by or owing under a
                        Transaction Document (other than costs, fees or expenses
                        payable to the Trustee under this document or a
                        Transaction Document); or

                (iii)   agree to amend or permit the amendment of any
                        Transaction Document; or

                (iv)    otherwise commence enforcement action in relation to a
                        Transaction Document,

                without the prior written consent or instructions of the
                Debenture Holders.

        (e)     Despite any other provision of this document or any provision of
                a Transaction Document, but subject to clause 6.1(a), the
                Trustee must not consent to the issue of Debentures by the
                Issuer without the prior written consent or instructions of the
                Debenture Holders.

        (f)     Any action taken by the Trustee in accordance with this clause,
                or pursuant to instructions given to the Trustee by the
                Debenture Holders, is binding on each Debenture Holder and each
                Debenture Holder authorises the Trustee to give any consent and
                do any other matter or thing necessary or appropriate to give
                effect to the instructions.

        (g)     Where there is more than one Debenture Holder, the Trustee can
                rely on separate consents or instructions provided by Debenture
                Holders given at different times.

3.5     NO OBLIGATION TO INVESTIGATE AUTHORITY

        No person dealing with the Trustee need enquire whether instructions
        have been given to the Trustee by the Agent or the Debenture Holders or
        as to the terms of any instructions.

3.6     NOTIFICATION TO DEBENTURE HOLDERS

        The Trustee agrees promptly to notify each Debenture Holder of each
        Event of Default of which the Trustee has actual knowledge. The Trustee
        will not be taken to have knowledge unless the Trustee has received
        written notice of the Event of Default from the Agent, a Debenture
        Holder or the Issuer.

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3.7     NOTIFICATION TO TRUSTEE

        Each Debenture Holder agrees to promptly notify the Trustee of an Event
        of Default of which the Debenture Holder has actual knowledge.

3.8     EXONERATION

        (a)     Neither the Trustee nor any of its directors, officers,
                employees, agents or attorneys is responsible to the Issuer, the
                Agent or any Debenture Holder:

                (i)     because the Issuer or any other person (other than the
                        Trustee) fails to perform its obligations under a
                        Transaction Document; or

                (ii)    for the solvency or financial condition of the Issuer;
                        or

                (iii)   because any statement, representation or warranty in a
                        Transaction Document is incorrect or misleading except
                        to the extent caused by the fraud, gross negligence or
                        breach of trust by the Trustee; or

                (iv)    for the effectiveness, genuineness, validity,
                        enforceability, admissibility in evidence or sufficiency
                        of any Transaction Document or any certificate, report,
                        document or other instrument executed or delivered in
                        connection with a Transaction Document except to the
                        extent caused by the fraud, gross negligence of, or
                        breach of trust by, the Trustee; or

                (v)     for acting in accordance with the instructions of the
                        Debenture Holders, or for refraining, (in accordance
                        with the instructions of the Debenture Holders) from
                        exercising a right, power or discretion; or

                (vi)    for any action taken or omitted by any of them in
                        connection with a Transaction Document, except to the
                        extent caused by its fraud, gross negligence or breach
                        of trust.

        (b)     The Trustee is not responsible to any person because a Debenture
                Holder fails to observe its obligations under any Transaction
                Document.

        (c)     A Debenture Holder instructing the Trustee(in such capacity an
                'INSTRUCTING DEBENTURE HOLDER') is not responsible to any other
                Debenture Holder for any loss, claim or liability suffered
                because of any notice or instruction issued by the Instructing
                Debenture Holder to the Trustee.

        (d)     In relation to any Transaction Document, the Trustee may rely on
                any communication or instrument believed by it to be genuine and
                correct and to have been signed or sent by an Authorised Officer
                of the sender or, if otherwise required, by the proper person
                and may rely, as to legal or other professional matters, on
                opinions and statements of any legal or professional advisers
                selected or approved by it.

3.9     DELEGATION AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEYS

        (a)     The Trustee may delegate from time to time and at any time to
                any person any of the obligations, functions, duties, rights and
                powers or discretions under this

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                document or any Transaction Document on such terms and
                conditions (including power to sub-delegate) as the Trustee
                thinks fit. The Trustee is not liable for any action taken or
                omitted to be taken by any such person except to the extent that
                it is proven that the person appointed was unqualified to
                perform the task delegated to them.

        (b)     The Trustee may from time to time appoint one or more attorneys
                under a power or powers of attorney:

                (i)     to act jointly or severally; and

                (ii)    with or without power for any such attorney to delegate;
                        and

                (iii)   in relation to a specific transaction or class of
                        transactions or generally; and

                (iv)    in a particular place or in any place, to execute any
                        document or to do any act or to receive notice, money or
                        other property in respect of the Trust Fund or in
                        respect of the exercise of any power conferred on the
                        Trustee by this document or a Transaction Document or by
                        law, whether or not the Trustee has disclosed to any
                        such attorney or any person dealing with such attorney
                        that in respect of the power to be so delegated it is
                        acting as trustee.

3.10    DEALINGS BETWEEN THE ISSUER AND TRUSTEE

        The Trustee (without having to account to any Debenture Holder) may
        generally engage in any kind of business with the Issuer as if it were
        not the Trustee and may accept fees or other consideration from the
        Issuer for services in connection with the Trust and otherwise without
        having to account for the same to any Debenture Holder.

3.11    INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF CREDIT

        The Trustee is entitled to assume, and will in all cases assume, that
        each Debenture Holder:

        (a)     has, independently and without reliance on the Trustee or any
                other Debenture Holder, and based on such documents and
                information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own
                investigation into the affairs of the Issuer, and any other
                party to a Transaction Document; and

        (b)     will, independently without reliance on the Trustee or any other
                Debenture Holder and based on such documents and information as
                it deems appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
                analysis and decisions as to the taking or not taking of action
                under any Transaction Document or any Debentures.

3.12    EXERCISE OF POWERS BY CORPORATE TRUSTEE

        Every Trustee which is a corporation or company may exercise or concur
        in exercising any discretion or power hereby conferred on the Trustee by
        a resolution of such corporation or company or by a resolution of its
        board of directors or governing body or may delegate the right and power
        to exercise or to concur in exercising any such

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        discretion or power to a representative appointed for the purpose by its
        board of directors or governing body.

3.13    TRUSTEE AS A DEBENTURE HOLDER

        (a)     Subject to paragraph (b), the Trustee in its capacity as a
                Debenture Holder has the same rights and powers under each
                Transaction Document as any other Debenture Holder. It may
                exercise them as if it were not acting as trustee of the Trust.

        (b)     Despite any other provision of this document, unless there is
                Secured Money owing to the Trustee, the Trustee is not required
                to give its consent or instructions in its capacity as a
                Debenture Holder in relation to any matter or thing and a
                reference in a Transaction Document to any matter or thing
                requiring the consent of all of the Debenture Holders will be
                construed as all of the Debenture Holders other than the Trustee
                unless and until any Secured Money becomes owing to the Trustee.

3.14    INDEMNITY TO TRUSTEE

        (a)     Each Debenture Holder severally indemnifies the Trustee (to the
                extent not reimbursed by the Issuer), rateably in its Proportion
                (as at the time of the event occasioning the relevant Loss)
                against any Loss which the Trustee (other than in its capacity
                as a Debenture Holder) may sustain or incur directly or
                indirectly under or in relation to a Transaction Document. This
                indemnity survives termination of this document or redemption of
                any Debentures.

        (b)     No Debenture Holder is liable under paragraph (a) for any of the
                above to the extent that the Loss arises from the Trustee's
                fraud, gross negligence, wilful misconduct or breach of trust.

3.15    NO MONITORING

        (a)     The Trustee is not required to keep itself informed as to the
                compliance by the Issuer with any Transaction Document or any
                other document or agreement or to inspect any property or the
                Records of the Issuer.

        (b)     The Trustee is under no obligation:

                (i)     to monitor or to review the financial or other condition
                        of the Issuer or to investigate any matters or to make
                        any inquiries with respect to the Issuer; or

                (ii)    to provide any factual or other information to a
                        Debenture Holder (other than to pass on information
                        received by the Trustee on request by a Debenture
                        Holder) including, without limitation, with respect to
                        the financial or other condition of the Issuer, or the
                        possible or likely occurrence of an Event of Default,
                        except as expressly stated in this document.

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3.16    RECOGNITION OF TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

        (a)     The Issuer or any Debenture Holder may request the Trustee to
                approve a document or agreement as a Transaction Document for
                the purposes of this document.

        (b)     If the Issuer or a Debenture Holder requests the Trustee to
                approve an agreement or document as a Transaction Document, that
                person shall:

                (i)     provide the Trustee with a copy of the document or
                        agreement;

                (ii)    provide its request in writing; and

                (iii)   provide any additional information requested by the
                        Trustee.

        (c)     If the Issuer and the Debenture Holders agree, the Trustee may
                approve any document or agreement as a Transaction Document for
                the purposes of this document. If the Trustee approves a
                document or agreement as a Transaction Document for the purposes
                of this document, the Trustee shall issue a certificate to the
                Agent and the Issuer certifying that the document or agreement
                named in the certificate is a Transaction Document for the
                purposes of this document.

3.17    AGENT

        (a)     Each Debenture Holder appoints the Agent as its agent to
                exercise all its Powers and rights and to do all things it is
                entitled to do under this document except the giving of a notice
                under clause 3.17(d).

        (b)     Despite any other provision in this document, for as long as
                there is an Agent:

                (i)     no Debenture Holder may separately exercise any right or
                        Power under this document; nor

                (ii)    may the Trustee act on agreement, directions, consent or
                        instructions given to it directly by any Debenture
                        Holder.

        (c)     Where under this document or any other Transaction Document,
                except under clause 3.17(d), the agreement, direction, consent
                or instructions of the Debenture Holders is required, the
                Trustee may rely on a written statement from the Agent that such
                agreement, direction, consent or instructions (as the case may
                be) has been provided. The Trustee will not be liable to any
                Debenture Holder if it acts in accordance with such a written
                statement from the Agent. The Debenture Holders must communicate
                all such agreements, directions, consents and instructions to
                the Agent unless the Agent has been removed and a new agent has
                not been appointed.

        (d)     The Debenture Holders may, with the agreement of the Required
                Lenders, by notice in writing given by each Debenture Holder
                remove the Agent and appoint another person as agent. Such
                appointment shall be effective from the time of receipt by the
                Trustee of such notice.

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        (e)     The Trustee need not enquire into the appointment by the
                Debenture Holders of ANZ as agent nor into the appointment of
                any other person as Agent in place of ANZ or into the term of
                any such appointment.

4.      DISTRIBUTION OF RECOVERED FUNDS

4.1     MONEY TO BE DISTRIBUTED ON RECEIPT

        All money received by the Trustee:

        (a)     under a Transaction Document (including, but not limited to,
                proceeds of enforcement action); or

        (b)     from the Issuer in connection with any Transaction Document or
                Debenture; or

        (c)     from a Debenture Holder in accordance with clause 4.8, other
                than money:

                (i)     placed to the credit of a suspense account or which the
                        Trustee considers, acting on the reasonable instructions
                        of the Debenture Holders, ought to be placed to the
                        credit of a suspense account:

                        (A)     in order to preserve rights to prove in the
                                bankruptcy or Insolvency of any person; or

                        (B)     because the Trustee or the Debenture Holders,
                                reasonably consider that the money may have to
                                be repaid under any law relating to insolvency;
                                or

                (ii)    which the Trustee is entitled to retain under the terms
                        of this document including, without limitation, any
                        fees, costs or charges payable to the Trustee,

        must be distributed by the Trustee in accordance with clause 4.3 as soon
        as practicable after the Trustee receives it.

4.2     MONEY HELD OR TO BE HELD IN SUSPENSE ACCOUNT

        Money referred to in clause 4.1(i) must be distributed by the Trustee in
        accordance with clause 4.3 as soon as practicable after:

        (a)     the Trustee determines, acting on the reasonable instructions of
                the Debenture Holders, that the money no longer needs to be held
                in a suspense account; or

        (b)     the Debenture Holders direct the Trustee to distribute the
                money.

4.3     MANNER OF DISTRIBUTION

        Money referred to in clauses 4.1 and 4.2 which the Trustee is obliged to
        distribute and which has not previously been distributed ('RECOVERED
        FUNDS') must be distributed by the Trustee as follows:

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        (a)     first, by payment to the trustee of the Penford Security Trust
                of that amount of the whole of the money to be distributed that
                bears the same proportion to the total amount of the money that
                the First Priority Money as defined in the Penford Security
                Trust Deed bears to the aggregate of the First Priority Money as
                defined in the Penford Security Trust Deed and the Secured Money
                (under this document);

        (b)     second, towards satisfaction of all costs, charges and expenses
                incurred by the Trustee (other than in its capacity as a
                Debenture Holder) in or incidental to the exercise or attempted
                exercise of any right, power or discretion conferred under a
                Transaction Document; and

        (c)     third, towards satisfaction of any costs, charges and expenses
                incurred in connection with any receivership of property secured
                by a Collateral Security; and

        (d)     fourth, towards payment to the Trustee of any money due to it in
                its capacity as Trustee under any Transaction Document; and

        (e)     fifth, subject to clause 4.6 and any written direction from the
                Debenture Holders to the contrary (whether contained in an
                agreement or otherwise), rateably based on its Proportion,
                towards payment to each Debenture Holder of that part of the
                Secured Money owed to it;

        (f)     sixth, by payment to the trustee of the Penford Security Trust
                of the amount of the Second Priority Money as defined in the
                Penford Security Trust Deed; and

        (g)     to the extent of any remainder after payment of all of the
                Secured Money, to the Issuer (except to the extent that the
                Trustee may be obliged to pay an amount at law or pursuant to a
                Transaction Document to another person such as a subsequent
                secured creditor),

        or in any other order as the Trustee and the Debenture Holders agree. If
        another order is agreed, the Trustee will notify the Issuer.

4.4     NO OBJECTION

        The Issuer must not:

        (a)     direct the Trustee to distribute or deal with Recovered Funds in
                any particular manner other than as set out in clause 4.3
                (except to the extent that the Issuer is entitled to receive the
                relevant funds); or

        (b)     object to any distribution on the grounds that Recovered Funds
                were not distributed in the manner required by clause 4.3(d)
                unless the distribution is other than towards repayment of the
                Secured Money.

4.5     REPAYMENT TO TRUSTEE

        If all or any part of the relevant recovery or payment to any Debenture
        Holder is subsequently rescinded or must otherwise be restored to the
        Issuer under any law or paid to any other person, then the relevant
        Debenture Holder shall immediately pay the relevant amount to the
        Trustee for the account of the Issuer or the other person and no

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        release or discharge or cancellation or redemption of Debentures or any
        Transaction Document given or made on the faith of that repayment shall
        have any force or effect.

4.6     DISTRIBUTIONS AMONGST DEBENTURE HOLDERS

        (a)     Prior to making a distribution to Debenture Holders under clause
                4.3(e), the Trustee must notify the Agent that it intends to
                make a distribution to the Debenture Holders under that clause
                including:

                (i)     particulars of the amount of the proposed distribution
                        and the method by which the distribution to Debenture
                        Holders was calculated, including (but not limited to)
                        details of any priority arrangement and its effect; and

                (ii)    details of proposed distributions to each of the
                        Debenture Holders.

                Each Debenture Holder must promptly on request by the Trustee
                provide the information the Trustee requires to give the notices
                specified above.

        (b)     If no Debenture Holder objects to the amount of the distribution
                within five Business Days of the Trustee giving notice of
                intended distribution, then the Trustee may distribute the
                relevant part of the Recovered Funds despite any other provision
                of any Transaction Document. After any distribution in
                accordance with clause 4.3, neither the Trustee nor the Issuer
                will thereafter be liable to any Debenture Holder if the amount
                of any given distribution is subsequently shown to be incorrect.

        (c)     If a Debenture Holder has reasonable grounds to believe that a
                notice provided under paragraph (a) of the amount of the
                distribution to a Debenture Holder is incorrect, it may by
                notice in writing to the Trustee and the Agent within five
                Business Days of the Trustee giving notice of intended
                distribution, object to the proposed distribution ('OBJECTION').
                The Trustee must provide a copy of each Objection to each
                Debenture Holder. The Debenture Holder must negotiate in good
                faith to resolve the Objection. Neither the Trustee nor the
                Issuer will have any obligation or liability in respect of the
                resolution of an Objection.

        (d)     The Debenture Holder must advise the Trustee in writing of the
                resolution of any Objection. That advice must direct the Trustee
                as to how it should make a distribution to Debenture Holders
                under clause 4.3(e).

        (e)     If an Objection is resolved by way of court proceedings, the
                Trustee is entitled to rely on, and will make a distribution to
                Debenture Holders under clause 4.3(e) in accordance with, an
                order made by any court appearing to have competent jurisdiction
                in relation to the Objection.

4.7     ADJUSTMENTS BETWEEN DEBENTURE HOLDERS

        Where, after a distribution has been made under clause 4.3, it is
        subsequently discovered that the distribution was shared between the
        Debenture Holders in incorrect proportions, the Debenture Holders agree
        to make such payments and adjustments as are necessary to ensure that
        each Debenture Holder obtains its correct entitlement. Neither the
        Trustee nor the Issuer will have any liability to be involved in the
        process.

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4.8     PAYMENTS FROM DEBENTURE HOLDER TO THE TRUSTEE

        Where a Debenture Holder receives money in connection with a Transaction
        Document from any source (other than money distributed to it by the
        Trustee in accordance with clause 4.3) after the first occurrence of an
        Event of Default (or such other date as all Debenture Holders may agree
        and notify the Trustee in writing), that Debenture Holder must notify
        each other Debenture Holder and must, unless all other Debenture Holders
        notify the Trustee otherwise, immediately pay all of the money received
        to the Trustee to enable it to be distributed in accordance with clause
        4.3.

4.9     SUSPENSE ACCOUNT

        (a)     The Trustee may credit money received from the enforcement of a
                Security or from a Issuer Party under a Security to a suspense
                account. The Trustee may keep the money in that account for as
                long as, and at whatever interest rate, the Trustee thinks fit.
                The Trustee may apply the money (including interest) in
                accordance with clause 4.1 (Money to be distributed on receipt)
                whenever the Trustee thinks fit.

        (b)     If the Secured Money has been fully and finally paid or
                discharged and the Trustee is satisfied that such payment or
                discharge is not liable to be set aside, avoided or reversed,
                then the balance standing to the credit of the suspense account
                and any accrued interest must be paid to or for the account of
                the Issuer for distribution to the persons entitled to it and no
                Debenture Holder will have any further liability in relation to
                it.

5.      DEBENTURE HOLDERS

5.1     RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF DEBENTURE HOLDERS

        (a)     The Debentures of each Debenture Holder will confer on it the
                benefit of the obligations (including the warranties) of the
                Trustee and the Issuer under this document.

        (b)     Each Debenture Holder will be bound by the terms of this
                document.

        (c)     The Trustee may hold Debentures in its personal capacity.

        (e)     A Debenture Holder must not take any enforcement action or
                institute proceedings against any Issuer Party under any
                Transaction Document except in accordance with terms of any
                agreement between all Debenture Holders.

5.2     TRUSTEE: EXERCISE OF DISCRETION

        (a)     If the Debenture Holders instruct the Trustee to exercise any of
                its rights, powers or discretions under a Transaction Document
                and the Trustee fails within a reasonable time to do so, then
                the Debenture Holders may act in place of the Trustee.

        (b)     Any action taken by the Trustee in accordance with this document
                will be binding on all Debenture Holders.

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6.      CREATION, ISSUE AND REDEMPTION OF DEBENTURES

6.1     ISSUE OF DEBENTURES

        (a)     Subject to this document and the satisfaction of all conditions
                precedent under the Subscription Agreement with ANZ entered into
                on or about the date of this document having been satisfied, the
                Issuer may at any time without the consent of the Trustee,
                create and issue Debentures to ANZ as specified in that
                Subscription Agreement.

        (b)     An issue of Debentures occurs by execution of the Debenture
                Certificate and noting of the issue in the Register acting on
                the instructions of the Debenture Holders.

        (c)     The Issuer may not issue Debentures other than pursuant to
                paragraph (a) without the consent of the Trustee acting on the
                instructions of the Debenture Holders.

        (d)     The Issuer must use the net proceeds received from the issue of
                Debentures only for working capital and other general corporate
                purposes, including permitted capital expenditures, and for
                other purposes approved by the Debenture Holders.

6.2     ISSUE NOTICE

        The Issuer must if it wishes to issue Debentures, give an Issue Notice
        to the relevant Subscriber and the Trustee. An Issue Notice is
        irrevocable and must be:

        (a)     in the form set out in schedule 2;

        (b)     duly completed and signed by an Authorised Officer of the
                Issuer; and

        (c)     delivered to the Subscriber and Trustee on a Business Day no
                later than 11.00am 3 Business Days before the proposed Issue
                Date (unless the Subscriber agrees otherwise).

        The Issue Date specified in an Issue Notice must be a Business Day.

6.3     SURRENDER AND REDEMPTION OF DEBENTURES

        (a)     On the Termination Date of a Debenture:

                (i)     the Issuer must pay to the Trustee for the account of
                        the relevant Debenture Holder all of the Secured Money
                        in respect of the Debenture; and

                (ii)    the Trustee will apply that payment rateably among the
                        relevant Debenture Holders according to their
                        Proportion; and

                (iii)   a Debenture Holder must, on receiving payment of all of
                        its Secured Money, surrender for cancellation all of its
                        Debentures.

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        (b)     On giving not less than 5 Business Days' prior notice to the
                Agent and all Debenture Holders, the Issuer may redeem all or
                any Debentures before the Termination Date, provided that such
                redemption is made rateably among the Debenture Holders
                according to their Proportion. Unless the Trustee agrees
                otherwise, redemption of Debentures under this clause must be a
                minimum amount of $1,000,000 and an integral multiple of
                $100,000. A Debenture Holder is not obliged to accept redemption
                of its Debentures if after such a redemption the amount of
                Secured Money owed to it exceeds its Debenture Holder Debt.

                Any early redemption notice given by the Issuer under this
                clause is irrevocable and the Issuer is bound to redeem in
                accordance with the notice. If any Debenture is redeemed other
                than on the last day of its current Funding Period, the Issuer
                indemnifies the relevant Debenture Holder for any Loss the
                Debenture Holder suffers, incurs or makes as a result of the
                redemption occurring on a date other than the last day of the
                relevant Funding Period.

                Any Debenture which is redeemed by the Issuer must be cancelled
                and the Issuer must give notice to the Trustee of the
                cancellation of the Debenture within five Business Days after
                its cancellation.

6.4     NOTICES TO TRUSTEE

        As soon as practicable after each issue of Debentures, the Issuer must
        notify the Trustee and the Agent of the face value of Debentures issued
        and the names of the relevant Debenture Holders.

6.5     CANCELLATION

        (a)     Other than pursuant to clause 6.3, no Debentures may be
                cancelled or redeemed unless the relevant Debenture Holder
                confirms to the Trustee and the Issuer that all Secured Money
                actually and contingently owing to the relevant Debenture Holder
                has been fully and finally repaid and satisfied.

        (b)     If a Debenture Holder has advised the Trustee and the Issuer of
                the matters referred to in paragraph (a), the Issuer must:

                (i)     immediately cancel any Debenture which it redeems; and

                (ii)    give notice to the Trustee and the Agent of the
                        cancellation of any Debenture within five Business Days
                        after its cancellation.

6.6     TRANSFER OF DEBENTURES

        (a)     A Debenture Holder may not transfer, assign or otherwise deal
                with its Debentures except pursuant to the terms of the
                Intercreditor Agreement.

        (b)     A transfer of Debentures will only be effective if it:

                (i)     complies with the provisions of the Intercreditor
                        Agreement and this document; and

                (ii)    is signed by the transferor, the transferee and the
                        Trustee; and

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                (iii)   is delivered to the place of the Register for
                        registration; and

                (iv)    is accompanied by:

                        (A)     the Debenture Certificate for the Debentures to
                                be transferred; or

                        (B)     if the Debenture Certificate for the Debentures
                                to be transferred is unable to be produced for
                                any reason:

                                (I)     a statutory declaration from the
                                        Debenture Holder transferring the
                                        Debentures stating that the Debenture
                                        Certificate is unable to be produced and
                                        setting out the reason as to why it
                                        cannot be produced; and

                                (II)    an undertaking and/or security, in form
                                        and substance reasonably satisfactory to
                                        Issuer, from the Debenture Holder
                                        transferring the Debentures indemnifying
                                        the Issuer in respect of any liability
                                        associated with the Debenture
                                        Certificate which is unable to be
                                        produced.

                        If, on receiving a statutory declaration given by a
                        Debenture Holder in accordance with paragraph (B)(i),
                        the Trustee is able to confirm that the name of the
                        Debenture Holder that is transferring the Debentures
                        appears on the Register as the holder of the Debentures
                        to be transferred, then this will be sufficient evidence
                        to prove the title of that Debenture Holder and the
                        right of that Debenture Holder to transfer the
                        Debentures.

        (c)     The Trustee will, if satisfied that a transfer complies with
                paragraph (b) and, if necessary, after delivering the
                undertaking and/or security referred to in paragraph
                (b)(iv)(B)(II) to the Issuer, register the transfer and enter
                the transferee's name in the Register as the Debenture Holder
                entitled to the Debentures comprised in the transfer and notify
                the Issuer of such registration.

        (d)     On a transfer being registered, the Issuer will issue a new
                Debenture Certificate or Debenture Certificates to the
                transferee in respect of the Debentures transferred.

7.      RESTRICTIONS ON DEBENTURES

7.1     LIMITATION ON ISSUE NOTICES

        The Issuer must not give an Issue Notice if the issue of any Debentures
        referred to in it would cause a breach of, or otherwise not comply with
        the requirements of, this document or the Subscription Agreement.

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7.2     MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

        The principal amount of each Debenture must be a minimum of $1,000,000
        and an integral multiple of $100,000 or such lesser amount as agreed
        between the Trustee and the Issuer.

8.      REGISTERS AND CERTIFICATES

8.1     REGISTER

        The Trustee will keep or cause to be kept a register of Debentures and,
        to the extent that it has been notified of the relevant information,
        enter in the Register:

        (a)     the names and addresses of the persons to whom Debentures have
                been issued or transferred from time to time and a description
                of the Debentures held by them respectively; and

        (b)     the date on which the name of each person was entered in the
                Register as a Debenture Holder; and

        (c)     the date on which any Debenture Holder ceased to hold
                Debentures; and

        (d)     the date of any issue of Debentures; and

        (e)     the principal amount of the Debentures on issue.

8.2     CONCLUSIVENESS OF REGISTER

        (a)     Subject to paragraph (d), the Register will be prima facie
                evidence of the identity of Debenture Holders and will prevail
                over any register or other records kept by the Issuer to the
                extent of any inconsistency. The onus of proving the Register to
                be incorrect rests with the person challenging it.

        (b)     Subject to paragraph (d), a person whose name is entered on the
                Register as the holder of a Debenture will remain a Debenture
                Holder until removal of that name by the Trustee regardless of
                whether or not:

                (i)     the Debenture is or proves to have been void, invalid or
                        was improperly issued; or

                (ii)    the Debenture has been redeemed, repaid or cancelled.

        (c)     Subject to paragraph (d), the Debenture Holders whose names
                appear from time to time on the Register are to be regarded as
                the beneficial owners of the Debentures on issue which are
                registered in their respective names. Except as required by law,
                neither the Trustee nor the Issuer will recognise (even when
                having notice) any other interest in any Debenture.

        (d)     Debentures issued in contravention of this document or of any
                other Transaction Document to which the Trustee is a party has
                no force or effect, whether or not its details are entered in
                the Register.

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8.3     CERTIFICATES

        The Issuer must issue to each Debenture Holder, in respect of Debentures
        held by it, a certificate substantially in the form of schedule 1 (or
        any other form which the Issuer, all Debenture Holders and the Trustee
        approve).

8.4     EXECUTION OF DEBENTURE CERTIFICATES

        A Debenture Certificate must be executed by the Issuer:

        (a)     under its common seal in the presence of 2 directors or a
                director and company secretary;

        (b)     by the signature of two directors or a director and company
                secretary; or

        (c)     by the signature of its duly constituted attorney.

8.5     REGISTER AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION

        The Trustee must ensure that the Register is open for inspection by a
        Debenture Holder on reasonable notice during the hours of 9:00am to
        5:00pm on each Business Day.

9.      FUNDING PERIODS

9.1     FUNDING NOTICE

        The Issuer must give a Funding Notice to the Agent no later than
        11.00am:

        (a)     in the case of the first Funding Period, 3 Business Days before
                the commencement of the first Funding Period; or

        (b)     in all other cases, 3 Business Days before the end of a Funding
                Period,

        unless the Subscriber agrees otherwise.

        A Funding Notice is irrevocable and must be:

        (a)     in the form set out in schedule 3; and

        (b)     duly completed and signed by an Authorised Officer of the
                Issuer.

9.2     SELECTION OF FUNDING PERIODS

        Funding Periods selected by the Issuer must have a term of:

        (a)     1, 2 or 3 months; or

        (b)     any other period required under this document.

9.3     FUNDING PERIODS: RESTRICTIONS

        Despite the above:

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        (a)     a Funding Period must not extend beyond the Termination Date;

        (b)     if a Funding Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a
                Business Day, it will be extended to the next Business Day in
                the same calendar month or, if none, the preceding Business Day;
                and

        (c)     if a Funding Period of a number of months commences on a date in
                a month and there is no corresponding date in the month in which
                it is to end, it will end on the last Business Day of the latter
                month.

9.4     FAILURE TO SELECT FUNDING PERIOD

        If the Issuer fails to select a Funding Period complying with this
        document, the Agent may select a Funding Period which ensures
        compliance.

10.     INTEREST

        The Issuer must pay to each Debenture Holder interest on the Principal
        Amount of each Debenture held by the Debenture Holder. Interest is
        payable at the Interest Rate. Interest accrues daily and is payable on
        the last day of each Funding Period.

11.     REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

11.1    REPAYMENT

        The Issuer must repay the Principal Amount by paying to the Debenture
        Holders the amounts specified in column 2 of the table in Schedule 5 on
        the corresponding dates specified in column 1 of that table. The amounts
        referred to in this clause are in addition to the payment referred to in
        clause 11.2.

11.2    MANDATORY REPAYMENTS

        In addition to the repayments provided for in clause 11.1, the Issuer
        must reduce the Principal Outstanding by paying to the Debenture Holders
        the following:

        (a)     100% of the net cash proceeds received by an Issuer Party from
                asset sales (other than the sale of inventory in the ordinary
                course of business) which is not reinvested within 12 months
                from receipt of such proceeds by the Issuer Party, within 12
                months of receipt of such proceeds;

        (b)     100% of insurance proceeds and proceeds received by an Issuer
                Party from a Public Authority in respect of any compulsory
                resumption or acquisition by the Public Authority of any Secured
                Property, not utilised within 12 months for the repair or
                replacement of the affected property, within 12 months of
                receipt of such proceeds;

        (c)     100% of the net cash proceeds from the issuance of any new debt
                (excluding borrowings under revolving credit) by an Issuer
                Party, upon receipt of such proceeds;

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        (d)     an amount equal to the proportion of the net cash proceeds of
                any issuance of Stock or Stock Equivalent by Penford Corporation
                or any Subsidiary (other than proceeds not exceeding
                US$1,000,000 in any fiscal year from the exercise of options
                granted to directors or employees) that the Total Debenture
                Holder Debt bears to the aggregate of the Total Debenture Holder
                Debt and the outstanding principal balance of the Term Loans,
                upon receipt of such net cash proceeds; and

        (e)     an amount equal to the proportion of 50% of the Excess Cash Flow
                for the immediately preceding fiscal year of Penford Corporation
                that the Debenture Holder Debt bears to the aggregate of the
                Debenture Holder Debt and the outstanding principal balance of
                the Term Loans, within 90 days after the last day of each fiscal
                year of Penford Corporation.

        In this clause 11.2, 'STOCK', 'STOCK EQUIVALENT', 'TERM LOANS' and
        'EXCESS CASH FLOW' have the meaning given to them in the US Credit
        Agreement.

11.3    FINAL REPAYMENT

        On the Termination Date, the Issuer must pay to the Debenture Holders,
        any part of the Principal Amount then outstanding.

12.     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

12.1    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

        The Issuer represents and warrants to the Trustee and the Debenture
        Holders in respect of each Issuer Party that:

        (a)     (REGISTRATION) it is properly registered and validly exists;

        (b)     (POWER) it has the power and the right to carry on its business,
                and to enter into and exercise its rights and perform its
                obligations under each Relevant Document to which it is a party;

        (c)     (CORPORATE AUTHORISATION) it has taken the necessary corporate
                action to authorise its entry into and performance of each
                Relevant Document to which it is party (as well as each
                transaction contemplated by each such Relevant Document);

        (d)     (RELEVANT DOCUMENTS) each Relevant Document to which it is a
                party is (subject to its stamping and registration, where
                applicable) valid, binding and enforceable against it in
                accordance with its terms;

        (e)     (COLLATERAL SECURITIES) subject to payment of stamp duty and
                registration, each Collateral Security is an effective Security
                Interest having the priority contemplated in it;

        (f)     (CONFLICTS) its execution and performance of each Relevant
                Document to which it is a party does not and will not:

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                (i)     conflict with or violate any law, judgment, ruling,
                        order, document or agreement that binds it (including
                        its constituent documents);

                (ii)    result in a Security Interest (other than under a
                        Collateral Security) being created on, or crystallising
                        over, any of its assets; or

                (iii)   result in a default under any agreement relating to any
                        of its Financial Indebtedness;

        (g)     (AUTHORISATIONS OBTAINED) each Authorisation which is:

                (i)     necessary for the execution, delivery or performance by
                        it, or the validity or enforceability, of the Relevant
                        Documents to which it is party;

                (ii)    necessary for the effectiveness as a Security Interest
                        (with the priority contemplated in it) of each
                        Collateral Security; or

                (iii)   material to the conduct by it of its business,

                has been obtained and is in full force and effect;

        (h)     (COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS) it has complied with all laws and
                Authorisations applicable to it or its business where failure to
                do so would have or be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (i)     (SOLVENCY) it is solvent and there are reasonable grounds to
                expect that, on execution of each Transaction Document to which
                it is a party, it will continue to be able to pay all its debts
                as and when they become due and payable;

        (j)     (NO DEFAULT UNDER MATERIAL DOCUMENT) it is not in default of a
                material obligation under any Material Document or any document
                relating to its Financial Indebtedness and nothing has occurred
                which is or would (with the giving of notice or passage of time
                or both) constitute an event of default (however described)
                under any such document;

        (k)     (LITIGATION) (except as described in writing to the Trustee and
                accepted in writing by the Trustee acting on the instructions of
                the Debenture Holders) no litigation or administrative,
                arbitration or other proceeding or action (including any action
                by a Public Authority) is current or pending or, to its
                knowledge, is likely or threatened which, if adversely
                determined, would have or be likely to have a Material Adverse
                Effect;

        (l)     (INFORMATION ACCURATE) all information provided by it to the
                Trustee, the Agent, a Debenture Holder or a party to a
                Subscription Agreement in connection with the Transaction
                Documents and the Material Documents is accurate in all material
                respects and not deficient, misleading or deceptive in any
                material respect (whether by its inclusion or by the omission of
                other information);

        (m)     (COPIES OF DOCUMENTS):

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                (i)     all copies of documents provided by it to the Trustee,
                        the Agent or a Debenture Holder are true and complete
                        and the original documents are in full force and effect;
                        and

                (ii)    the copies of the Material Documents provided to the
                        solicitors for the Trustee contain all of the terms of
                        the agreements between the parties to those documents
                        and there are no other documents or arrangements in
                        existence in respect of those Material Documents that
                        have not been disclosed in writing to the Agent;

        (n)     (DISCLOSURE OF FACTS) all material facts or circumstances known
                to it and which under reasonable business practice may affect
                the decision of the Trustee, a Debenture Holder or any party to
                the Subscription Agreement to enter into this transaction have
                been disclosed by it to those persons;

        (o)     (OWNERSHIP OF ASSETS) subject to any trust which is expressly
                disclosed in the Transaction Documents and to any Permitted
                Security Interest, it is the sole legal and beneficial owner of
                the Secured Property the subject of each Collateral Security
                given by it;

        (p)     (ASSETS FREE OF SECURITY INTERESTS) its assets are free of any
                Security Interest other than any Permitted Security Interest;

        (q)     (FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS) it has no Financial Indebtedness other
                than Permitted Financial Indebtedness;

        (r)     (NO EVENT OF DEFAULT) no Event of Default has occurred and is
                subsisting and no Potential Event of Default has occurred and is
                subsisting:

                (i)     at the date of this document and the date of the first
                        issue of Debentures; or

                (ii)    thereafter, which is not disclosed in writing to the
                        Agent;

        (s)     (ACCOUNTS) the most recent Accounts, except Accounts referred to
                in clause 13.2(c), of the Issuer provided to the Trustee, a
                Debenture Holder or a party to the Subscription Agreement:

                (i)     give a true and fair view of the Issuer's state of
                        affairs as at the date to which the Accounts relate and
                        the results of the Issuer's operations during the period
                        covered by the Accounts;

                (ii)    contain proper and adequate provisions for and fully
                        disclose all of the actual and contingent liabilities of
                        the Issuer as at the date to which the Accounts relate;
                        and

                (iii)   were prepared in accordance with Accounting Standards,
                        except for any departures from those standards which are
                        disclosed in the Accounts;

        (t)     (NO CHANGE IN FINANCIAL POSITION) there has been no change in
                the Issuer's state of affairs or operations since the date to
                which the Accounts referred to in

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                paragraph (s) (Accounts) were prepared which would have or be
                likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (u)     (OWN ENQUIRIES) it has relied on its own investigations and
                enquiries regarding the transactions contemplated by the
                Transaction Documents and has not relied on any information,
                advice or opinion (including information, advice or opinions
                regarding interest rates, Derivative Transactions or exchange
                rates) given or offered by or on behalf of the Trustee, the
                Agent, a Debenture Holder or a party to the Subscription
                Agreement even if in answer to any enquiry by or for it;

        (v)     (TAXATION) it has complied with all Tax laws in all
                jurisdictions in which it is subject to Taxes and has paid all
                Taxes due and payable by it, other than Contested Taxes the
                non-payment of which would not have or be likely to have a
                Material Adverse Effect;

        (w)     (INSURANCE) it has complied with its obligations in the
                Transaction Documents to insure and maintain insurance;

        (x)     (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY) it owns, or has the right and licence to
                use, all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its
                business;

        (y)     (ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS):

                (i)     it has not incurred any Environmental Liability which it
                        has not disclosed in writing to the Trustee which could
                        have a Material Adverse Effect; and

                (ii)    all Authorisations required under any Environmental Law
                        relating to the occupation, use and development of each
                        Property have been obtained, are in full force and
                        effect and have been and are being complied with where
                        non-compliance would have a Material Adverse Effect and
                        such occupation, use and development otherwise complies
                        with all Environmental Laws where non-compliance would
                        have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (z)     (CORPORATE BENEFIT) its entry into the transactions contemplated
                by the Relevant Documents is in its best interests and for its
                benefit;

        (aa)    (NO TRUSTEE) it is not a trustee of any trust other than as
                specified in any Transaction Document;

        (bb)    (RELATED ENTITIES) it does not have any Related Entities, other
                than those previously notified by it in writing to the Agent;

        (cc)    (NO IMMUNITY) neither it nor any of its assets is immune from
                suit or execution; and

        (dd)    (NATIVE TITLE) it is not:

                (i)     as at the date of this document and the date of the
                        first issue of Debentures, aware of any actual or
                        potential native title claim in relation to any
                        Property; or

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                (ii)    thereafter, aware of any actual or potential native
                        title claim in relation to any Property which if it were
                        successful would have a Material Adverse Effect.

12.2    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REPEATED

        Each representation and warranty in this document:

        (a)     is repeated, with reference to the facts and circumstances at
                the time on each Issue Date; and

        (b)     applies in its current form when repeated, despite any contrary
                disclosure by the Issuer or any other person, unless the Trustee
                (acting on the instructions of the Debenture Holders) agrees to
                waive it.

13.     REPORTING OBLIGATIONS AND ACCESS

13.1    NOTICES TO THE AGENT

        The Issuer must notify the Agent, with reasonable details, as soon as it
        becomes aware of any one or more of the following in respect of each
        Issuer Party:

        (a)     (EVENT OF DEFAULT) an Event of Default or Potential Event of
                Default and (if applicable) the steps taken or proposed to be
                taken to remedy it;

        (b)     (SUBSIDIARY) the Issuer Party acquiring or intending to acquire
                a Subsidiary;

        (c)     (ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY) the acquisition by any Issuer
                Party of any interest in relation to real property (other than a
                Lease for a term (including options) of less than 3 years);

        (d)     (LITIGATION) any litigation or administrative, arbitration or
                other proceeding or action (including any action by a Public
                Authority) against any Issuer Party which is current or pending
                or, to its knowledge, likely or threatened which:

                (i)     if adversely determined, would have or be likely to have
                        a Material Adverse Effect; or

                (ii)    involves a claim or claims for an amount in aggregate in
                        excess of $1,000,000 or its equivalent;

        (e)     (ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS) any breach or potential breach of any
                Environmental Law or of any complaint or the issuing of any
                proceedings or notice or requirements against or on any Issuer
                Party in respect of, or which may result in, any Environmental
                Liability or alleged contravention of any Environmental Law
                which would have or be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (f)     (COMPULSORY ACQUISITION) any proposal by a Public Authority to
                compulsorily acquire assets of any Issuer Party the subject of a
                Collateral Security where the acquisition would have or be
                likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;

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        (g)     (MATERIAL DOCUMENTS) any:

                (i)     material notice given or received under;

                (ii)    material default or dispute under;

                (iii)   termination or rescission of; or

                (iv)    event or circumstance which entitles a party to
                        terminate or rescind,

                a Material Document;

        (h)     (PUBLIC AUTHORITIES) any material notice to or from, or material
                correspondence with, a Public Authority in relation to any
                Issuer Party or its assets the subject of a Collateral Security,
                including under any Environmental Law;

        (i)     (AUTHORISATIONS) any proposal by a Public Authority to revoke or
                materially amend any Authorisation:

                (i)     necessary for the execution, delivery, or performance by
                        any Issuer Party, or the validity or enforceability, of
                        a Relevant Document;

                (ii)    necessary for the effectiveness as a Security Interest
                        (with the priority contemplated in it) of each
                        Collateral Security; or

                (iii)   material to the conduct by any Issuer Party of its
                        business;

        (j)     (CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS) any change to any Issuer Party's
                constituent documents;

        (k)     (NATIVE TITLE) any native title claim being proposed or made in
                respect of any of the Secured Property; or

        (l)     (MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT) any event or circumstance which has or
                is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

13.2    ACCOUNTS AND OTHER INFORMATION

         The Issuer must give the following to the Agent:

        (a)     (ANNUAL ACCOUNTS) the audited consolidated annual Accounts of it
                and of each of its Subsidiaries as soon as possible after its
                annual balance date (and, at the latest, 120 days after that
                date);

        (b)     (QUARTERLY ACCOUNTS) the consolidated and unconsolidated
                quarterly Accounts of it and of each of its Subsidiaries as soon
                as possible but at the latest 60 days after the end of each of
                its first three fiscal quarters and 120 days after the end of
                its fourth fiscal quarter;

        (c)     (MONTHLY ACCOUNTS) the monthly consolidated and unconsolidated
                management Accounts of PAL and of each of its Subsidiaries
                including:

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                (i)     balance sheet and profit and loss statements
                        incorporating a divisional break-up;

                (ii)    monthly cashflow statements and projections; and

                (iii)   a comparison of actual results with previous budget and
                        projections,

                in the form currently prepared by PAL;

        (d)     (OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION) whatever other financial
                information a Debenture Holder reasonably requires, within 75
                days after the end of each month during the first 3 months after
                the date of this document and within 60 days after the end of
                each month thereafter;

        (e)     (FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS) before 1 November in each year beginning
                1 November 2001, detailed projections setting out Penford
                Corporation's projected consolidated income and cashflow for the
                current fiscal year and for each fiscal year until 31 August
                2005 and a projected consolidated balance sheet as of the end of
                each such fiscal year for Penford Corporation together with a
                certificate from Penford Corporation's principal financial
                officer setting forth the assumptions on which such projections
                are based;

        (f)     (CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE) each certificate (where applicable)
                detailed in the US Credit Agreement;

        (g)     (REPORTS, CIRCULARS) promptly, copies of all material documents
                which each Issuer Party issues to its members, any stock
                exchange or its creditors generally as soon as they are issued;

        (h)     (AUTHORISED OFFICERS) promptly, notice of any change to its
                Authorised Officers (which notice must be signed by the
                secretary or a director of the Issuer and must contain a
                specimen signature of each new Authorised Officer) and, if
                requested, evidence of the Authorised Officers' authority;

        (i)     (INSURANCE) on request, current certificates and other documents
                in respect of each Issuer Party's insurance policies; and

        (j)     (OTHER INFORMATION) whatever other information the Trustee, the
                Agent or a Debenture Holder reasonably requests about any Issuer
                Party's state of affairs or any Secured Property.

13.3    PREPARATION AND FORM OF ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS

        All Accounts, except monthly Accounts referred in clause 13.2(c), and
        reports provided by the Issuer must:

        (a)     be prepared and, if applicable, audited by a reputable and
                suitably qualified accountant in accordance with Accounting
                Standards and all applicable laws;

        (b)     be certified by 2 directors of each entity to which they relate
                as an accurate and complete statement of the financial position
                of such entity; and

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        (c)     at the time of delivery, give a true and fair view of the state
                of affairs of the entity or entities to which they relate or
                give an explanation of any divergence between the Accounts or
                reports and a true and fair view, as at the date on which, and
                for the period in respect of which, the Accounts or reports are
                prepared.

13.4    GIVING ACCESS TO SECURED PROPERTY

        The Issuer must in respect of each Issuer Party:

        (a)     ensure that its business, financial records and are available
                for inspection upon reasonable notice and at reasonable times by
                the Trustee, the Agent, each Debenture Holder and persons acting
                on their behalf; and

        (b)     allow the Trustee, each Debenture Holder and persons acting on
                their behalf to inspect and to take copies of or extracts from
                those business and financial records and give reasonable
                assistance to them.

13.5    INVESTIGATING ACCOUNTANTS

        The Trustee may at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default
        or Potential Event of Default appoint accountants ('INVESTIGATING
        ACCOUNTANTS') to investigate the affairs and financial position of the
        Issuer provided the Investigating Accountants agree with the Issuer to
        be bound by the same confidentiality requirements that apply under
        clause 13.6. The Issuer:

        (a)     unconditionally authorises the Investigating Accountants to take
                the action which is reasonably necessary or desirable for the
                investigation. This does not include the power to manage the
                Issuer's business;

        (b)     agrees to give the Investigating Accountants all reasonable
                assistance for that purpose; and

        (c)     unconditionally authorises the Investigating Accountants to
                disclose to the Trustee, the Agent and each Debenture Holder and
                their respective advisers all information and documentation in
                connection with the investigation. The Issuer must pay the costs
                and expenses of the investigations immediately on demand by the
                Trustee.

13.6    CONFIDENTIALITY

        Confidential information provided to the Trustee, the Agent or a
        Debenture Holder by the Issuer or to the Issuer by the Trustee or a
        Debenture Holder may not be disclosed to any person except:

        (a)     with the prior consent of the party providing the information;

        (b)     if required by law or any Public Authority or pursuant to any
                administrative guideline or policy (even if it does not have the
                force of law) which the person disclosing the information
                customarily complies with;

        (c)     in connection with any action contemplated or legal proceedings
                taken relating to any Transaction Document;

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        (d)     if the information is generally and publicly available;

        (e)     to the auditors, legal advisers or other consultants in
                confidence of the Issuer, Trustee, the Agent or Debenture
                Holder; or

        (f)     if permitted under a Transaction Document.

14.     GENERAL AND FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS

14.1    POSITIVE OBLIGATIONS

        The Issuer must, and must ensure that each Issuer Party (unless the
        Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Debenture Holders) otherwise
        consents):

        (a)     (CARRY ON BUSINESS) carry on its business in the ordinary
                course;

        (b)     (AUTHORISATIONS) obtain, renew and maintain (and provide to the
                Agent as soon as practicable after reasonable request copies of)
                all Authorisations that are necessary or advisable for the
                proper and efficient conduct of its business where a failure to
                do so would have a Material Adverse Effect and for:

                (i)     the execution, delivery and performance by it, and the
                        validity and enforceability, of each Relevant Document;
                        and

                (ii)    the effectiveness as a Security Interest (with the
                        priority contemplated in it) of each Collateral
                        Security,

                to which it is a party;

        (c)     (MAINTAIN BOOKS) maintain proper and adequate books and records
                in accordance with Accounting Standards and the requirements of
                all laws;

        (d)     (MAINTAIN STANDING) maintain:

                (i)     its registration in the place of its registration as at
                        the date of this document; and

                (ii)    its good standing,

                and ensure that it remains entitled to carry on business and own
                property in all applicable jurisdictions;

        (e)     (MAINTAIN INSURANCE) comply with its obligations to insure and
                maintain insurance in the Transaction Documents;

        (f)     (MAINTAIN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY) maintain, preserve and protect
                all Intellectual Property material to its business in accordance
                with prudent business practice;

        (g)     (MAINTAIN PHYSICAL ASSETS) maintain its physical assets useful
                or necessary to its business subject to a Collateral Security in
                a good state of repair, fair wear

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                and tear excepted, and replace such assets whenever necessary
                for the proper and efficient conduct of its business;

        (h)     (SECURED PROPERTY):

                (i)     remedy any defect in its or the Trustee's title to the
                        Secured Property; and

                (ii)    protect and defend the Secured Property;

        (i)     (AVOID ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY):

                (i)     take whatever action the Trustee (acting on the
                        instructions of the Debenture Holders) reasonably
                        requires to avoid any Environmental Liability;

                (ii)    maintain procedures to monitor its compliance with
                        Environmental Laws;

        (j)     (ACQUISITION OF SUBSIDIARY) if it creates or acquires a
                Subsidiary after the date of this document (with or without the
                Trustee's consent):

                (i)     immediately cause the Subsidiary to execute (and do all
                        things necessary to give effect to) any Collateral
                        Security required by the Trustee, including a Guarantee
                        and a Collateral Security over all of its assets; and

                (ii)    provide, in relation to the Subsidiary, any information
                        or document, which the Trustee reasonably requests, to
                        the Trustee in form and substance acceptable to the
                        Trustee;

        (k)     (PAY TAXES) pay when due all Taxes (other than Contested Taxes
                unless the failure to pay would have or be likely to have a
                Material Adverse Effect) assessed, levied or imposed on it or
                its assets the subject of a Collateral Security;

        (l)     (EVENTS OF DEFAULT) as soon as practicable after request by the
                Trustee or the Agent, provide the Trustee and the Agent with a
                certificate signed by 2 of its directors certifying that to the
                best of their knowledge and belief no Event of Default or
                Potential Event of Default has occurred and is subsisting;

        (m)     (MATERIAL DOCUMENTS):

                (i)     comply with the material terms of; and

                (ii)    take all reasonable action, and all action reasonably
                        required by the Trustee, to enforce,

                each Material Document to which it is a party;

        (n)     (COMPLY WITH LAWS) comply with all material laws and
                Authorisations and with the mandatory requirements of any Public
                Authority in respect of the Secured Property;

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        (o)     (RECTIFY PHYSICAL DEFECTS) immediately:

                (i)     rectify each material defect in the repair or condition
                        of the Secured Property reasonably required by the
                        Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Debenture
                        Holders); and

                (ii)    take any action reasonably required by the Trustee
                        (acting on the instructions of the Agent) to implement
                        or take account of the recommendations or results of any
                        environmental audit or site assessment carried out in
                        relation to the Secured Property; and

        (p)     (ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT) if the Trustee (acting on the
                instructions of the Debenture Holders) reasonably requests it,
                promptly give the Trustee an environmental site assessment or
                environmental audit report on the matters the Trustee specifies.
                The report must be prepared by an environmental consultant
                reasonably acceptable to the Trustee and the Issuer must pay for
                the report.

14.2    NEGATIVE OBLIGATIONS

        The Issuer must not, and must ensure that each Issuer Party does not,
        without first obtaining the consent of the Trustee (acting on the
        instructions of the Debenture Holders), which consent must not be
        unreasonably withheld or delayed:

        (a)     (NATURE OF BUSINESS) do anything to change materially the nature
                of its business;

        (b)     (SECURITY INTEREST)

                (i)     create or permit to exist a Security Interest, other
                        than a Permitted Security Interest, over any of the
                        Secured Property or attempt or agree to do so; or

                (ii)    if the creation of a Security Interest cannot by law be
                        restricted, create such a Security Interest over any of
                        the Secured Property without using its best endeavours
                        to provide that the holder of the Security Interest
                        first enters into a deed of priority in form and
                        substance reasonably acceptable to the Trustee (acting
                        on the instructions of the Debenture Holders);

        (c)     (ACQUISITION SUBJECT TO SECURITY INTEREST) acquire an asset
                which is subject to a Security Interest or which becomes the
                subject of a Security Interest (other than a Collateral
                Security) upon its acquisition;

        (d)     (LEASES) grant a Lease over any of its assets other than at
                arms' length and for market consideration except to an Issuer
                Party;

        (e)     (DISPOSALS OF ASSETS) dispose of an asset or attempt or agree to
                do so except:

                (i)     in the ordinary course of its ordinary business and on
                        arms' length terms;

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                (ii)    where the asset is no longer required for its business
                        and the disposal is on arms' length terms;

                (iii)   to an Issuer Party which has given Collateral Security;

                (iv)    where the value of the asset is less than $1,000,000 or
                        its equivalent and the aggregate value of all assets so
                        disposed of by the Issuer Parties in any 12 month period
                        in reliance on this exception is less than $2,000,000 or
                        its equivalent; or

                (v)     under a Permitted Security Interest;

        (f)     (NO FURTHER SHARES) issue any further shares other than in the
                case of an Issuer Party which has given Collateral Security;

        (g)     (NO MERGER) merge or consolidate with another entity;

        (h)     (ARM'S LENGTH TRANSACTIONS) subject to any Transaction Document,
                enter into any transaction other than on arm's lengths terms
                with any person other than a Subsidiary of the Issuer or Penford
                Corporation or Penford Products Co.;

        (i)     (TITLE RETENTION) acquire assets which would otherwise become
                Secured Property on title retention terms except in the ordinary
                course of its day-to-day trading;

        (j)     (FINANCIAL ACCOMMODATION) lend or provide financial
                accommodation to any person, except that:

                (i)     it may:

                        (A)     subject to paragraph (l) (deposit), deposit
                                money with a bank, unless the bank is not a
                                Debenture Holder and the Issuer Party owes
                                Financial Indebtedness to the bank; or

                        (B)     allow its customers to acquire goods or services
                                on extended terms,

                        in the ordinary course of its day-to-day trading; and

                (ii)    it may lend or provide financial accommodation to an
                        Issuer Party which has given Collateral Security;

        (k)     (GUARANTEES) give any Guarantee other than under the Transaction
                Documents;

        (l)     (DEPOSIT) deposit money with a person if the money is not
                repayable until satisfaction of an obligation owed to the
                person;

        (m)     (PARTNERSHIP) enter into any partnership or joint venture;

        (n)     (SUBSIDIARY) after the date of this document, create or acquire
                any Subsidiary unless it complies with clause 14.1(j);

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        (o)     (MATERIAL DOCUMENTS):

                (i)

                        (A)     materially vary, amend or change or agree to any
                                material variation, amendment or change in
                                (other than an assignment or transfer by a
                                sub-lessee to another party of the same or
                                better reputation and credit standing);

                        (B)     terminate or rescind; or

                        (C)     waive any material requirement of,

                        any Material Document; or

                (ii)    do or permit, or fail to do, any act which would render
                        any Material Document liable to forfeiture or
                        cancellation or to be otherwise prejudiced;

        (p)     (CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS) change its constituent documents in any
                way; or

        (q)     (FINANCIAL YEAR) change its financial year except to be
                consistent with Penford Corporation's financial year which is 31
                August.

15.     EVENTS OF DEFAULT

15.1    EVENTS OF DEFAULT

        An Event of Default occurs if any one or more of the following occurs:

        (a)     (NON-PAYMENT) the Issuer fails to pay any of the Secured Money
                payable by it within 5 days after the due date for payment;

        (b)     (INCORRECT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS) a financial statement or
                certificate provided by the Issuer to the Trustee, the Agent or
                a Debenture Holder is untrue, incorrect or misleading in any
                material way;

        (c)     (OTHER OBLIGATION NOT COMPLIED WITH) subject to paragraphs (a)
                and (b), an Issuer Party fails to comply with any obligation
                under a Transaction Document and, if in the opinion of the
                Trustee the failure is capable of remedy, it continues
                unremedied for 15 Business Days after the failure;

        (d)     (INCORRECT STATEMENT OR REPRESENTATION) a statement,
                representation or warranty made by or on behalf of an Issuer
                Party in a Transaction Document, or in a document provided in
                connection with a Transaction Document, is untrue, incorrect or
                misleading in a material respect when made or repeated;

        (e)     (CROSS DEFAULT - FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS) Financial Indebtedness
                of an Issuer Party:

                (i)     becomes due and payable, or capable of being declared
                        due and payable, before its due date; or

                (ii)    is not paid when due or within any applicable grace
                        period;

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        (f)     (CROSS DEFAULT - TRANSACTION DOCUMENT) an event of default
                (however described) occurs under any Transaction Document;

        (g)     (CROSS DEFAULT - MATERIAL DOCUMENT) if an Issuer Party which is
                a party to a Material Document fails to comply with any material
                obligation under it or an event of default by it (however
                described) after the expiry of any applicable grace period
                occurs under it which would have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (h)     (CROSS DEFAULT - US CREDIT AGREEMENT) an 'Event of Default' (as
                defined in the US Credit Agreement);

        (i)     (CROSS DEFAULT - PENFORD SECURITY TRUST DEED) an 'Event of
                Default' (as defined in the Penford Security Trust Deed);

        (j)     (JUDGMENT) a judgment is obtained against an Issuer Party for an
                amount which together with other outstanding judgments against
                the Issuer Party exceed $1,000,000 or its equivalent and which
                in each case have not been stayed within 10 Business Days of the
                date of the judgment;

        (k)     (SECURITY INTEREST) any Security Interest over an asset of an
                Issuer Party is enforced or becomes enforceable;

        (l)     (INSOLVENCY) an Issuer Party:

                (i)     is insolvent within the meaning of section 95A of the
                        Corporations Law;

                (ii)    is taken to have failed to have complied with a
                        statutory demand under section 459F of the Corporations
                        Law; or

                (iii)   must be presumed by a court to be insolvent under
                        section 459C of the Corporations Law;

        (m)     (GROUNDS FOR WINDING UP) a circumstance specified in section 461
                of the Corporations Law occurs with respect to an Issuer Party;

        (n)     (WINDING UP)

                (i)     an order is made for the Winding Up of an Issuer Party;

                (ii)    proceedings are commenced or an application is made for
                        the Winding Up of an Issuer Party and not withdrawn or
                        dismissed within 10 Business Days; or

                (iii)   an effective resolution is passed or a meeting is
                        summoned or convened to consider a resolution for the
                        Winding Up of an Issuer Party,

                except with the consent of the Trustee (acting on the
                instructions of the Debenture Holders);

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        (o)     (EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATOR) an External Administrator is appointed
                to an Issuer Party or any of its assets or any step is taken to
                do so or an Issuer Party requests such appointment;

        (p)     (ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS) execution or distress takes place or
                is attempted or an order to execute a judgment (however
                described) is made against an Issuer Party or any of its assets;

        (q)     (CREDITORS) an Issuer Party stops or suspends payment to
                creditors generally or enters into an arrangement, assignment or
                composition with or for the benefit of its creditors generally
                or any class of them or proposes to do so;

        (r)     (DEREGISTRATION) a step is taken under section 601AA, 601AB or
                601AC of the Corporations Law to cancel the registration of an
                Issuer Party;

        (s)     (ANALOGOUS EVENT) anything analogous or having a similar effect
                to an event listed in paragraphs (m) - (r) above occurs;

        (t)     (INVESTIGATION) a person is appointed under any legislation to
                investigate any part of the affairs of an Issuer Party and that
                investigation in the opinion of the Trustee (acting on the
                instructions of the Debenture Holder) would have or be likely to
                have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (u)     (BUSINESS STOPPED OR CHANGED) an Issuer Party stops or threatens
                to stop carrying on its business or a material part of it or
                substantially changes the nature of its business without the
                consent of the Trustee (acting on the instructions of the
                Debenture Holders);

        (v)     (CAPITAL REDUCTION AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) an Issuer Party:

                (i)     takes action to reduce its share capital (other than by
                        redeeming redeemable preference shares) or to buy back
                        its shares; or

                (ii)    passes a resolution of the type referred to in section
                        254N(1) or 260B of the Corporations Law, or a meeting to
                        consider such a resolution is summoned or convened,

                without the consent of the Trustee (acting on the instructions
                of the Debenture Holders);

        (w)     (AUTHORISATION) any Authorisation which is:

                (i)     necessary for the execution, delivery or performance by
                        the Issuer, or the validity or enforceability, of a
                        Relevant Document;

                (ii)    material to the conduct by an Issuer Party of its
                        business; or

                (iii)   necessary for the effectiveness as a Security Interest
                        (with the priority contemplated in it) of each
                        Collateral Security,

                is not obtained or maintained on terms acceptable to the Trustee
                (acting on the instructions of the Debenture Holders) or is
                revoked without being replaced within 10 Business Days;

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        (x)     (UNENFORCEABILITY):

                (i)     all or any material part of any Relevant Document is
                        terminated, void, avoided, illegal, invalid,
                        unenforceable or limited in its effect; or

                (ii)    any party has the right to terminate, rescind or avoid
                        all or part of any Relevant Document,

                or any party other than the Trustee, the Agent or a Debenture
                Holder so alleges;

        (y)     (CHANGE OF CONTROL) there is any change in shareholding or
                change in control of an Issuer Party;

        (z)     (CHANGE IN CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS) an Issuer Party changes its
                constituent documents in a material respect without the consent
                of the Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Agent);

        (aa)    (ACTION BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES OR BREACHES OF LAW OR OF
                AUTHORISATION):

                (i)     any Public Authority takes any action;

                (ii)    there is any claim or requirement of substantial
                        expenditure or alteration of activity under, or breach
                        of, any law; or

                (iii)   there is any breach of any Authorisation,

                which the Trustee declares (acting on the instructions of the
                Debenture Holders) would have or be likely to have a Material
                Adverse Effect or any circumstance arises which may give rise to
                any such action, claim, requirement or breach;

        (bb)    (APPROPRIATION):

                (i)     all or a material part of the assets of an Issuer Party
                        are compulsorily acquired by a Public Authority or a
                        Public Authority orders the sale or divestiture of those
                        assets; or

                (ii)    a Public Authority gives notice to the Issuer Party to
                        do so;

        (cc)    (MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT) an event or series of events (whether
                related or not) occurs which the Trustee declares (acting on the
                instructions of the Debenture Holders) would have or be likely
                to have a Material Adverse Effect; or

        (dd)    (LETTER OF CREDIT) if a replacement Letter of Credit is not
                issued prior to 5 Business Days before the expiry of the then
                current Letter of Credit.

15.2    EFFECT OF EVENT OF DEFAULT

        (a)     If an Event of Default occurs, the Trustee (acting on the
                instructions of the Debenture Holders) may by notice to the
                Issuer declare that the Secured Money is immediately due and
                payable.

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        (b)     On receipt of a notice under paragraph (a), the Issuer must
                immediately pay the Secured Money to the Trustee.

16.     INCREASED COSTS

16.1    INCREASED COSTS

        If a Debenture Holder determines in good faith that, as a result of the
        introduction or commencement of, or an amendment to, or a change in or
        in the interpretation or administration by any Public Authority of:

        (a)     any law (including in relation to Tax), order, treaty or
                official policy, directive or request; or

        (b)     any prudential or other requirement or guideline of any central
                bank or other Public Authority,

        (each an 'INCREASED COSTS EVENT') there is any direct or indirect:

        (c)     increase in the cost to the Debenture Holder of providing,
                funding or maintaining financial accommodation or otherwise
                performing its obligations under any Transaction Document;
                and/or

        (d)     reduction in the effective return to the Debenture Holder in
                connection with the Transaction Documents,

        then the Debenture Holder must promptly notify the Agent, who must in
        turn notify the Issuer ('INCREASED COSTS NOTICE'), and the Issuer must
        within 15 days pay to the Trustee (on account of the Debenture Holder)
        on demand from time to time any additional amounts which the Debenture
        Holder certifies are necessary to compensate the Debenture Holder for
        the increased cost or reduction in return. The notification by the
        Debenture Holder must state in reasonable detail the reasons for the
        Increased Costs Event and the additional amount required to compensate
        the Debenture Holder.

        This clause applies to an Increased Costs Event even if it does not have
        the force of law provided that compliance with its subject matter is
        customary practice for responsible bankers or financial institutions in
        the applicable country.

16.2    METHOD OF CALCULATION

        In determining amounts payable under this clause, a Debenture Holder may
        use averaging and attribution methods commonly used by the Debenture
        Holder or any other reasonable averaging or attribution method.

17.     ILLEGALITY

        If any introduction of or change in a law, regulation or an official
        directive or request which has the force of law or compliance with which
        is in accordance with the practice of responsible bankers or a change in
        its interpretation or administration after the date of this document
        makes it unlawful or impossible for a Debenture Holder to procure, fund,

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        provide or maintain funding or otherwise observe its obligations under
        the Transaction Documents:

        (a)     the Debenture Holder must use reasonable endeavours to provide
                its funding by some alternative means (including transferring
                its rights and obligations to another financial institution
                acceptable to the Issuer); and

        (b)     if the Debenture Holder advises the Trustee that no alternative
                means are available, the Trustee must use reasonable endeavours
                to arrange a transfer of the relevant Debenture Holder's rights
                and obligations in accordance with the requirements of the
                Intercreditor Agreement (either to another Debenture Holder or
                another transferee); and

        (c)     if a transfer cannot be arranged within 20 Business Days, the
                relevant Debenture Holder may, by notice to the Issuer require
                that the Issuer prepay (on the last day before the illegality or
                impossibility arises or the Business Day following 10 Business
                Days after delivery of the notice, whichever is the later), the
                Debenture Holder's Secured Money.

18.     FEES

        The Issuer must pay such fees to the Trustee as are agreed from time to
        time between the Issuer and the Trustee.

19.     COSTS AND EXPENSES

        Subject to agreement between the parties, the Issuer must immediately
        pay on demand all costs and expenses of the Trustee, the Agent, a
        Debenture Holder, a Receiver and an Attorney relating to or in
        connection with:

        (a)     the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery, registration
                and completion of, payment of Taxes on, and provision of funding
                under, any Transaction Document;

        (b)     any variation or discharge of any Transaction Document;

        (c)     the exercise, enforcement, protection or waiver, or attempted
                exercise, enforcement or protection, of any Power;

        (d)     obtaining or receiving payment of any of the Secured Money and,
                in the case of the Trustee, its distribution;

        (e)     an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default;

        (f)     the giving by it of a consent or approval in connection with the
                Transaction Documents;

        (g)     any enquiry by any Public Authority concerning the Issuer or any
                of its Related Entities, the issue of Debentures or the
                involvement of the Trustee in the Transaction Documents;

        (h)     maintaining, preserving or protecting the Secured Property;

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        (i)     surveying, valuing, inspecting or reporting on the Secured
                Property; and

        (j)     obtaining advice from a professional person or consultant about
                any matter of concern to the Trustee, the Agent, a Debenture
                Holder, a Receiver or an Attorney in connection with a
                Transaction Document,

        including any legal costs and expenses (on a full indemnity basis), any
        professional consultant's fees and the costs (calculated on a time
        employed basis) of in-house legal counsel. All costs and expenses under
        paragraphs (a), (b), (d), (f), (g), (h), (i) and (j) will be reasonable
        unless paragraphs (c) or (e) also apply. Nothing in this clause shall
        make the Issuer liable to pay any costs or expenses to the extent that
        such costs and expenses are recoverable by the claimant or its
        representatives as an input credit under GST Law.

20.     TAXES

20.1    ISSUER TO PAY TAXES

        The Issuer must pay, or immediately on demand reimburse the Trustee, the
        Agent or a Debenture Holder, for, all Taxes which may be payable or
        determined to be payable by the Trustee, the Agent or Debenture Holder
        (as the case may be) and which are paid in connection with any
        Transaction Document or a payment, receipt, supply of goods or services
        or other transaction contemplated by or carried out under or pursuant to
        any Transaction Document, including Taxes passed onto the Trustee, the
        Agent or a Debenture Holder by another financial institution or supplier
        of goods and services.

20.2    FINES AND PENALTIES

        The Issuer must pay all fines and penalties for late payment or
        non-payment of the Taxes referred to in clause 20.1 (Issuer to pay
        Taxes) except where the Issuer places the Trustee, the Agent or
        Debenture Holder in cleared funds to make the payment not less than 5
        Business Days prior to the due date and the Trustee, the Agent or
        Debenture Holder fails to make the payment.

20.3    GOODS AND SERVICES TAX

        (a)     Notwithstanding any other provision in this document, any amount
                payable to the Trustee or a Debenture Holder under this document
                does not include any GST. Terms defined in the GST Law have the
                same meaning in this clause 20.3.

        (b)     To the extent that any supply under or in connection with this
                document, by the Trustee or a Debenture Holder constitutes a
                taxable supply pursuant to GST Law, the consideration payable
                will automatically be increased to include an additional amount
                on account of GST and the Trustee or the Debenture Holder (as
                the case may be) will provide the Issuer with an appropriate tax
                invoice for the amount of the GST prior to demanding payment
                from the Issuer. That amount will be the product of the value of
                the consideration for the supply and the prevailing GST rate.

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20.4    DEDUCTION OR WITHHOLDING REQUIRED

        If the Issuer must deduct or withhold Taxes from a payment to the
        Trustee, it must:

        (a)     make that deduction and/or withholding, pay to the appropriate
                Public Authority the full amount deducted and/or withheld as
                required by law and give the Trustee a receipt for the payment;
                and

        (b)     increase its payment to the Trustee to an amount which will
                result in the Trustee receiving (after deduction or withholding
                of any Taxes in respect of the increased payment) the full
                amount which it would have received if no deduction or
                withholding had been required.

21.     GENERAL INDEMNITY

        The Issuer must immediately indemnify the Trustee, the Agent and each
        Debenture Holder on demand against any Loss by the Trustee, the Agent or
        Debenture Holder (and, in the case of paragraph (f) below, any of its
        officers) in respect of any of the following:

        (a)     the Issuer failing to issue any Debentures which it has
                requested a party subscribe for pursuant to an Issue Notice not
                being made for any reason including any failure by the Issuer to
                fulfil any condition precedent contained in this document, but
                excluding any default by the Debenture Holder or Trustee;

        (b)     the occurrence of any Potential Event of Default or Event of
                Default;

        (c)     the exercise or attempted exercise by the Trustee, the Agent or
                Debenture Holder of any Power;

        (d)     any prepayment of all or part of any Debentures whether or not
                it is permitted under the Transaction Documents;

        (e)     any payment required under a Transaction Document not being made
                on its due date;

        (f)     any Environmental Liability;

        (g)     the Trustee, the Agent or Debenture Holder acting in good faith
                on any notice or communication from, or genuinely believed to be
                from, the Issuer; and

        (h)     reliance by the Trustee, the Agent or Debenture Holder on
                information supplied by or on behalf of the Issuer which proves
                to be a misrepresentation or to be misleading or deceptive,

        including:

        (i)     all reasonable legal costs and expenses in connection with the
                above on a full indemnity basis; and

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        (j)     any Loss (including loss of profit) by the Trustee, the Agent or
                Debenture Holder in terminating, reversing or varying any
                agreement (including a Derivative Transaction), in repaying
                amounts obtained to fund the subscription for Debentures or in
                re-deploying or re-investing any funds held or contracted for,

        other than any Loss arising from the gross negligence or fraud of the
        Trustee, the Agent or a Debenture Holder.

22.     DEFAULT INTEREST

22.1    DEFAULT INTEREST

        (a)     The Issuer must immediately on demand pay to the Trustee or
                Debenture Holder (as the case may be) interest on any of the
                Secured Money which is due and payable by it and not paid.

        (b)     Interest payable under paragraph (a) is calculated:

                (i)     up to the date of actual payment from and including the
                        due date or, in the case of an amount payable by way of
                        reimbursement or indemnity, the date of disbursement or
                        Loss, if earlier ('CALCULATION DATE'); and

                (ii)    at the rate ('DEFAULT RATE') determined by the Trustee
                        or Debenture Holder (as the case may be) as at the
                        Calculation Date and then at monthly intervals, as the
                        higher of:

                        (A)     if the Issuer's liability is the subject of a
                                judgment or order, the rate payable under that
                                judgment or order; and

                        (B)     the sum of the Applicable Margin, the Bank Bill
                                Rate for Bills having a term of 1 month and 2%
                                per annum.

22.2    INTEREST FOLLOWING JUDGMENT

        If the Issuer's liability under a Transaction Document is the subject of
        a judgment or order, the obligation to pay interest under this clause is
        an obligation separate from the judgment or order and will subsist
        despite the making of the judgment or order.

22.3    CAPITALISATION

        Interest payable under this clause that has not been paid may be
        capitalised by the Trustee or Debenture Holder at intervals of not less
        than 1 month as determined by the Trustee or Debenture Holder from time
        to time. Capitalised interest will itself bear interest at the Default
        Rate from the date of capitalisation up to and including the date of
        actual payment.

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23.     REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE

23.1    RETIREMENT

        (a)     The Trustee may retire as Trustee by giving to the Issuer, the
                Agent and each Debenture Holder not less than 20 Business Days'
                notice (or a lesser period if agreed by the Issuer) of its
                intention to do so. No retirement takes effect unless a trustee
                ('SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE') approved by the Debenture Holders has been
                appointed to succeed the Trustee. If no Successor Trustee has
                been appointed within 20 Business Days after the notice of
                retirement, then the Trustee may on behalf of the Debenture
                Holders appoint a Successor Trustee who accepts the appointment.

        (b)     On appointment of a Successor Trustee, the Trustee will be
                discharged from its rights, power and obligations and the
                Successor Trustee will become the 'Trustee' for the purposes of
                each Transaction Document and will have all the rights and
                powers, and be subject to all of the obligations, of the Trustee
                in each Transaction Document.

        (c)     Any release referred to in paragraph (b) will be without
                prejudice to any liability for breach or default by the Trustee
                prior to the appointment of the Successor Trustee.

23.2    REMOVAL

        The Debenture Holders are entitled, at any time and from time to time:

        (a)     to remove any Trustee on giving 20 Business Days' notice to the
                Trustee; and

        (b)     with the consent of the Trustee and the Issuer, to appoint any
                person or persons as an additional trustee of the Trust
                ('ADDITIONAL TRUSTEE'). For this purpose, the Trustee and the
                Issuer will be deemed to have consented to the appointment if
                they have not responded to a request for consent from the
                Debenture Holders within 20 Business Days of receipt of the
                requests. The Additional Trustee will become a 'Trustee' for the
                purposes of this document and will have all the rights and
                powers, and be subject to all of the obligations, of the Trustee
                in each Transaction Document; and

        (c)     to appoint any person or persons ('NEW TRUSTEE') as a new
                trustee of the Trust in place of any Trustee who resigns or
                ceases to be a Trustee by operation of law, or pursuant to
                removal by the Debenture Holders. The New Trustee will become
                the Trustee for the purposes of this document and will have all
                the rights and powers, and be subject to all of the obligations,
                of the Trustee in each Transaction Document.

23.3    FURTHER ASSURANCE BY RETIRING TRUSTEE

        A retiring or removed Trustee (or in the case of the appointment of an
        Additional Trustee, the pre-existing Trustee) agrees (without cost to
        it) to execute and to do everything else necessary or appropriate in its
        reasonable opinion to transfer the Trust Fund into the name of the new
        Trustee and to ensure that all public registers record the new Trustee
        as a trustee of the Trust Fund.

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24.     REVOCATION AND AMENDMENT OF TRUST DEED

        The Trustee for the time being may, with the consent of the Debenture
        Holders and the Issuer, at any time and from time to time, by deed
        revoke, add to or vary all or any of the trusts, powers, discretions,
        terms and conditions contained in this document (as previously varied)
        provided that the rule known as the rule against perpetuities is not
        infringed.

25.     NOTICES

25.1    REQUIREMENTS

        A notice, approval, consent or other communication ('NOTICE') in
        connection with a Transaction Document:

        (a)     must be given by an Authorised Officer of the relevant party;
                and

        (b)     must be in writing; and

        (c)     must be left at the address of the addressee, or sent by prepaid
                ordinary post (airmail if posted to or from a place outside
                Australia) to the address of the addressee or sent by facsimile
                to the facsimile number of the addressee at:

                (i)     in the case of the Issuer:

                        Address: 170 Epping Road, Lane Cove, NSW 2066
                        Attention: Frank Ianns / Keith Fujinaga
                        Facsimile: (02) 9418 7830;

                (ii)    in the case of the Trustee:

                        Address:Level 2, 20 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000
                        Attention: Ms Kirsten Ludlow
                        Facsimile: (02) 9227 1031;

                (iii)   in the case of the Agent:

                        Address: Level 13, 20 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000
                        Attention: Ms Michelle Burke
                        Facsimile: (02) 9227 1334; and

                (iii)   in the case of a Debenture Holder, to the address or
                        facsimile number notified by that Debenture Holder to
                        the Trustee,

                or if the addressee notifies another address or facsimile
                number, then to that address or facsimile number.

25.2    EFFECT

        Unless a later time is specified in it, a Notice takes effect from the
        time it is received.

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25.3    DEEMED RECEIPT

        A Notice is taken to be received:

        (a)     in the case of a posted Notice, on the third Business Day after
                posting for domestic mail and seventh Business Day after posting
                for international mail; and

        (b)     in the case of facsimile, on production of a transmission report
                by the machine from which the facsimile was sent which indicates
                that the facsimile was sent in its entirety to the facsimile
                number of the recipient,

        but if the delivery or receipt is on a day which is not a business day
        in the place of delivery or receipt or is after 4.00pm (addressee's
        time), it is taken to be received at the commencement of business on the
        next day which is a business day in that place.

25.4    NOTICE PROVISIONS IN OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS

        This clause does not limit any provision for the giving of Notices
        contained in any other Transaction Document.

26.     TRUSTEE'S LIMITATION OF LIABILITY PROTECTION

26.1    CAPACITY OF TRUSTEE

        Subject to clause 26.3, the Trustee enters into this document and each
        other Transaction Document only in its capacity as trustee of the Trust
        and in no other capacity. A liability arising under or in connection
        with any Transaction Document can be enforced against the Trustee only
        to the extent to which it can be satisfied out of property of the Trust
        out of which the Trustee is actually indemnified for the liability. This
        limitation of the Trustee's liability applies notwithstanding any other
        provision of this document (other than clause 26.3) and extends to all
        liabilities and obligations of the Trustee in any way connected with any
        representation, warranty, conduct, omission, agreement or transaction
        related to any Transaction Document.

26.2    NO PERSONAL LIABILITY

        Subject to clause 26.3, the parties may not sue the Trustee personally
        or seek the appointment of a liquidator, administrator, receiver or
        similar person to the Trustee or prove in any liquidation,
        administration or arrangement of or affecting the Trustee.

26.3    EXCLUSION

        The provisions of this clause shall not apply to any obligation or
        liability of the Trustee to the extent that it is not satisfied because
        under this document or by operation of law there is a reduction in the
        extent, or an extinguishment, of the Trustee's right of indemnity out of
        the assets of the Trust, as a result of the Trustee's fraud, gross
        negligence, wilful misconduct or breach of trust.

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27.     PRESERVING THE TRUSTEE'S AND DEBENTURE HOLDERS' POWERS

27.1    PRESERVATION

        (a)     The fact that the Trustee or a Debenture Holder exercises, does
                not exercise, or delays the exercise of, any Power does not
                affect, or constitute a representation in relation to, the Power
                or any other Power.

        (b)     Without limiting paragraph (a), the fact that the Trustee or a
                Debenture Holder exercises a Power does not prevent it from
                exercising that Power again.

        (c)     Unless expressly provided in a Transaction Document, no Power
                nor any Transaction Document merges in, adversely affects or is
                adversely affected by any other Power or Transaction Document or
                any Security Interest, judgment or remedy which the Trustee or a
                Debenture Holder (or anyone claiming through it) may have or
                obtain.

27.2    NO OBLIGATION TO EXERCISE RIGHTS OR GIVE CONSENT

        The Trustee or a Debenture Holder may:

        (a)     exercise or not exercise any Power;

        (b)     give or not give its consent; and

        (c)     make or not make a decision,

        under the Transaction Documents or in relation to the Trust in its
        absolute discretion unless a Transaction Document expressly provides
        otherwise. A consent given by the Trustee or a Debenture Holder subject
        to conditions does not take effect until the conditions are complied
        with to the satisfaction of the Trustee or a Debenture Holder (acting on
        the instructions of the Debenture Holders).

27.3    CONSENT AND WAIVERS

        A consent or waiver by the Trustee or a Debenture Holder is effective
        only if in writing.

27.4    POWERS

        (a)     The Powers provided by the Transaction Documents are cumulative
                and not exclusive of any other rights, powers, discretions or
                remedies provided by law.

        (b)     Where a Power under the Transaction Documents is inconsistent
                with a Power at law, the Transaction Documents prevail to the
                extent permitted by law. A Power at law is not inconsistent with
                the Transaction Documents merely because it is more extensive
                than a similar Power in the Transaction Documents or because
                there is no similar Power in the Transaction Documents.

27.5    CHOICE OF SECURITIES AND GUARANTEES

        The Trustee or a Debenture Holder need not resort to any Security
        Interest, Guarantee or any other Power before resorting to any other of
        them.

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27.6    INDEMNITIES GENERALLY

        (a)     Each indemnity in the Transaction Documents:

                (i)     is absolute and unconditional;

                (ii)    is a continuing obligation despite any settlement of
                        account or the occurrence of any other thing;

                (iii)   must be discharged without set-off, deduction,
                        abatement, counterclaim, suspension or deferment;

                (iv)    constitutes a separate and independent obligation of the
                        party giving the indemnity from its other obligations
                        under the Transaction Documents; and

                (v)     survives termination of any Transaction Document.

        (b)     It is not necessary for the Trustee or a Debenture Holder to
                incur an expense or make a payment before enforcing a right of
                indemnity conferred by a Transaction Document.

27.7    MORATORIUM LEGISLATION

        A moratorium does not apply to a Transaction Document or the recovery of
        the Secured Money except if:

        (a)     the Trustee or a Debenture Holder to whom the obligation is owed
                agrees in writing that it does; or

        (b)     it cannot be excluded by law.

28.     OTHER PROVISIONS

28.1    PAYMENTS AND RECEIPTS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY

        If for any reason the Trustee receives or recovers any amount ('PAID
        AMOUNT') under or in relation to a Transaction Document in a currency
        other than the currency in which it is payable under the Transaction
        Document ('AGREED CURRENCY'), the amount which the Trustee will be taken
        to have received or recovered for the purposes of the Transaction
        Documents will be the Agreed Currency amount to which the Trustee could
        have converted the Paid Amount, in accordance with its normal
        procedures, at the time of the receipt or recovery less the costs of the
        conversion.

28.2    FURTHER ASSURANCES

        The Issuer must, at the Issuer's cost, do whatever the Trustee
        reasonably requires to:

        (a)     secure more satisfactorily the Secured Property to the Trustee
                (including by executing a legal or statutory mortgage over any
                real property or other Secured Property the subject of a fixed
                charge); or

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        (b)     enable the better exercise of any Power,

        or both and use its reasonable efforts to make anyone else who has an
        interest in the Secured Property or claims under or in trust for the
        Issuer do the same.

28.3    NOTIFICATION FROM ISSUER

        If the Issuer is required under this document to notify the Trustee
        about anything, it must do so in writing.

28.4    TRUSTEE AND DEBENTURE HOLDERS MAY SET OFF

        Without any demand or prior notice, the Trustee or a Debenture Holder
        may, if an Event of Default is subsisting, set off and apply
        indebtedness it owes to the Issuer (whatever the currency) against any
        money owing to it by the Issuer under a Transaction Document:

        (a)     whether the amount owed by the Trustee or Debenture Holder is
                owed alone or with any other person; and

        (b)     whether or not the amount owed by the Trustee or Debenture
                Holder is immediately payable.

        The Issuer irrevocably authorises the Trustee and each Debenture Holder
        (as the case may be) to do anything necessary (including to sign any
        document and effect appropriate currency exchanges) for that purpose.

        If the Trustee or a Debenture Holder exercises any right of set-off, it
        will thereafter give notice of such exercise to the Issuer.

        If a Debenture Holder exercises any right of set off, such Debenture
        Holder ('PURCHASING DEBENTURE HOLDER') shall immediately purchase from
        the other Debenture Holders sufficient Debentures to cause its
        Proportion to remain the same as it was before such set off was
        exercised provided, however, that if any portion of such set off amount
        is later recovered from the Purchasing Debenture Holder, the purchase of
        the Debentures shall be rescinded and each other Debenture Holder shall
        repay to the Purchasing Debenture Holder:

        (a)     the purchase price to the extent of such recovery; and

        (b)     an amount equal to such other Debenture Holder's rateable share
                (according to the proportion of (A) the amount of such other
                Debenture Holder's required repayment to (B) the total amount so
                recovered from the Purchasing Debenture Holder) of any interest
                or other amount paid or payable by the Purchasing Debenture
                Holder in respect of the total amount so recovered.

        The Issuer agrees that any Purchasing Debenture Holder may, to the
        fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of set off
        against the Issuer.

28.5    ISSUER MUST NOT SET OFF

        The Issuer may not (either directly or indirectly) claim, exercise or
        attempt to exercise a right of set-off or counterclaim against the
        Trustee or a Debenture Holder (whether the

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        right is the Issuer's or any other person's) or any other right which
        might have the effect of reducing the Secured Money.

28.6    SURPLUS PROCEEDS

        If surplus money remains in the hands of the Trustee or an External
        Administrator after payment of all the Secured Money (and satisfaction
        of any obligation ranking in priority to the Secured Money or secured by
        a Security Interest):

        (a)     no trust arises over that surplus money; and

        (b)     that surplus money does not carry interest and the Trustee or
                External Administrator must promptly following satisfaction, pay
                it to an account in the name of the Issuer (whether or not
                opened by the Trustee or External Administrator for that
                purpose) and notify the Issuer of such payment. The Trustee or
                External Administrator is then no longer liable for the surplus
                money.

28.7    APPLYING RECEIPTS

        Subject to clause 4.3, the Trustee may apply or appropriate money
        received to reduce the Secured Money in the order, and to satisfy
        whatever part of the Secured Money, the Trustee sees fit.

28.8    NOTICES OR DEMANDS AS EVIDENCE

        Subject to any contrary provision in the Transaction Documents, a notice
        or certificate from or demand by the Trustee to the Issuer stating:

        (a)     that a specified sum of money is owing or payable under a
                Transaction Document;

        (b)     that an Event of Default has occurred; or

        (c)     any other fact or determination relevant to the rights or
                obligations of the Trustee, a Debenture Holder or a Issuer Party
                under a Transaction Document,

        is admissible in proceedings and is prima facie evidence of the matters
        stated except if there is manifest error.

28.9    SEVERABILITY

        (a)     A construction of this document that results in all provisions
                being enforceable and effective is to be preferred to a
                construction that does not.

        (b)     If, despite the application of paragraph (a), a provision of
                this document is illegal, unenforceable or ineffective, then the
                provision will be inoperative, but only to the extent to which,
                and during such time as, it is illegal, unenforceable or
                ineffective and the remainder of this document will continue in
                force.

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28.10   VARIATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

        (a)     Subject to paragraph (b), a variation of this document must be
                in writing and signed by or on behalf of the Issuer and the
                Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Required Lenders).

        (b)     The Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Required Lenders)
                may unilaterally vary any provision of this document which does
                not vary the obligations or rights of the Issuer under the
                Transaction Documents.

28.11   AUTHORISED OFFICERS AND COMMUNICATIONS

        The Issuer irrevocably authorises the Trustee to rely on:

        (a)     a certificate by any person purporting to be a director or
                secretary of the Issuer as to the identity and signatures of its
                Authorised Officers. The Issuer warrants that those persons have
                been authorised to give notices and communications under or in
                connection with the Transaction Documents; and

        (b)     any notice or other document contemplated by any Transaction
                Document which bears the purported signature (whether given by
                facsimile or otherwise) of an Authorised Officer of the Issuer.

28.12   ASSIGNMENT

        The Trustee may only assign or otherwise deal with its rights and
        benefits under any Transaction Document if it obtains the prior consent
        of the Debenture Holders.

        A Debenture Holder may only assign or otherwise deal with its rights and
        benefits under any Transaction Document in accordance with the
        provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.

        The Issuer may not assign or otherwise deal with its rights and benefits
        under this document, any Debenture Certificate and under any Transaction
        Document without obtaining the consent of the Trustee (acting on the
        instructions of the Debenture Holders).

28.13   THE TRUSTEE OR A DEBENTURE HOLDER MAY DISCLOSE INFORMATION

        The Trustee or a Debenture Holder may disclose to a potential assignee
        or participant any information about the Issuer or a Transaction
        Document which it considers necessary on the basis that the potential
        assignee or participant agrees to treat the information confidentially.

28.14   CERTAIN NOTICES OR DEMANDS

        A certificate signed by an Authorised Officer of the Trustee, the Agent
        or a Debenture Holder stating:

        (a)     that a specified sum of money is owing or payable (or both)
                under a Transaction Document; or

        (b)     that an Event of Default has occurred; or

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        (c)     something relevant to the rights or obligations of the Trustee,
                the Agent, a Debenture Holder, or the Issuer under a Transaction
                Document,

        is admissible in proceedings and is prima facie evidence of the matters
        stated except if there is manifest error.

28.15   IF DUE DATE NOT A BUSINESS DAY

        If anything should be done under this document on a day that is not a
        Business Day, then it must be done on the previous Business Day.

28.16   SEVERABILITY

        (a)     A construction of this document that results in all provisions
                being enforceable is to be preferred to a construction that does
                not so result.

        (b)     If, despite the application of paragraph (a), a provision of
                this document is illegal or unenforceable:

                (i)     and it would be legal and enforceable if a word or words
                        were omitted, that word or those words are severed; and

                (ii)    in any other case, the whole provision is severed,

                and the remainder of this document continues in force.

28.17   GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

        (a)     This document is governed by the laws of New South Wales.

        (b)     Each party irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the
                non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.
                Each party waives any right it has to object to an action being
                brought in those courts, including by claiming that the action
                has been brought in an inconvenient forum or that those courts
                do not have jurisdiction.

        (c)     Without preventing any other mode of service, any document in an
                action (including, without limitation, any writ or summons or
                other originating process or any third or other party notice)
                may be served on any party by being delivered to or left for
                that party at its address for service of notices under clause
                25.

28.18   ATTORNEYS

        Each attorney signing this document under a power of attorney certifies,
        by the attorney's signature, that the attorney has no notice of the
        revocation of the power of attorney.

28.19   COUNTERPARTS

        This document may be executed in any number of counterparts.

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                         SCHEDULE 1 -- FORM OF DEBENTURE

                                    DEBENTURE

Tranche [1 or 2] Debenture

Serial number  [insert number ]

                          PENFORD HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED
                                ACN 094 279 339
                    of 170 Epping Road, Lane Cove, NSW 2066
                                   ('ISSUER')

DEBENTURE HOLDER            ISSUE             FACE              MATURITY DATE
NAME AND                    DATE              VALUE
ADDRESS

[insert name and address]   [insert date ]    $[           ]    31 October 2005

THIS DEBENTURE is issued pursuant to the debenture trust deed ('DEBENTURE TRUST
DEED') dated [ ] between the Issuer and ANZ Capel Court Limited ACN 004 768 807
('TRUSTEE'). It is issued with the benefit of and subject to the Debenture Trust
Deed and the conditions endorsed on this Debenture Certificate.

Definitions in the Debenture Trust Deed apply to this Debenture Certificate and:

'FACE VALUE' means, in relation to this Debenture Certificate, the face value
specified above.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY that:

        (a)     the person whose name and address is set out above and described
                as 'Debenture Holder' is the registered holder of Debenture
                issued by the Issuer; and

        (b)     the Issuer:

                (i)     acknowledges its indebtedness to the Debenture Holder
                        for the Face Value;

                (ii)    promises to pay to the Debenture Holder interest on the
                        Face Value on the terms of the Debenture Trust Deed;

                (iii)   promises to pay an amount equal to the Face Value to the
                        Debenture Holder on the maturity date specified above
                        or, if earlier, as required by a Transaction Document;
                        and

                (iv)    promises to pay the Debenture Holder all Secured Money
                        to the Debenture Holder at the times and in the manner
                        specified in the Transaction Documents; and

        (c)     the Issuer must pay all amounts in relation to this Debenture
                Certificate or referred to above in immediately available funds
                without set-off or counterclaim and without deduction for Taxes
                or otherwise (except any compulsory deduction for Taxes) in the
                manner specified in the Transaction Documents; and

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<PAGE>   66
        (d)     subject to the provisions of any Transaction Document, the
                Debenture may be assigned or transferred with the written
                consent of the Trustee.

                                   CONDITIONS

1.      BOTH PARTIES TO SIGN TRANSFER

        Every instrument of transfer must be signed by the transferor and the
        transferee. The transferor remains the owner of the Debenture until the
        name of the transferee is entered in the Register for that Debenture.

2.      REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSFERS

        (a)     Every instrument of transfer must comply with the provisions of
                clause 6.6(b) of the Debenture Trust Deed.

        (b)     If the Trustee is satisfied that a transfer complies with
                paragraph (a), it will enter the transferee's name in the
                Register as the Debenture Holder entitled to the Debenture
                comprised in the transfer. The Issuer will then issue a new
                Debenture Certificate or Debenture Certificates to the
                transferee.

        (c)     Subject to the Debenture Trust Deed, the contents of the
                Register are conclusive as to the identity of Debenture Holders.

3.      REPLACEMENT DEBENTURE CERTIFICATE

        (a)     If a Debenture Certificate is worn out or defaced then upon its
                production to the Issuer, the Issuer may cancel it and may issue
                a new Debenture Certificate in its place.

        (b)     If:

                (i)     a Debenture Certificate is lost or if the Issuer does
                        not receive satisfactory proof of destruction of a
                        Debenture Certificate; and

                (ii)    the Trustee confirms in writing that the applicant for
                        the new Debenture Certificate is a Debenture Holder,

                then the Issuer will issue a new Debenture Certificate to the
                person entitled to the lost or destroyed Debenture Certificate
                provided that the applicant for the new Debenture Certificate
                agrees to pay the reasonable costs and expenses of the Issuer in
                issuing the new certificate. The Issuer must notify the Trustee
                of the issue of each new Debenture Certificate within five
                Business Days of its issue.

        (c)     An entry as to the issue of the new Debenture Certificate will
                be made in the Register. The new Debenture Certificate will
                indicate that it is issued as a replacement certificate.

        (d)     The person entitled must pay to the Issuer $10.00 for any new
                Debenture Certificate issued under this condition 3.

4.      DEFAULT INTEREST

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        If the Issuer does not pay any amount payable under this Debenture
        Certificate ('UNPAID AMOUNT') on the day on which it is due, then:

        (a)     the Issuer must pay on demand interest on the Unpaid Amount at
                the Default Rate; and

        (b)     any interest under paragraph (a) which has not been paid is
                capitalised on the first day of each calendar month (or such
                other dates as the Debenture Holder determines). It then bears
                interest itself under this condition at the rate referred to in
                paragraph (a).

5.      DEBENTURE HOLDER BOUND

        By executing this Debenture Certificate the Debenture Holder covenants
        for the benefit of the Trustee and the Issuer to be bound by the
        provisions of the Debenture Trust Deed.

EXECUTED as a deed.

DATED  insert date

SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by               )
[insert attorney's name] as attorney for     )
PENFORD HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED under power of  )
attorney dated [insert date]                 )
in the presence of                           )

--------------------------------------------     -------------------------------
Signature of witness                             Attorney

--------------------------------------------
Name of witness (print)

SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by           )
[insert attorney's name] as attorney for )
[INSERT DEBENTURE HOLDER'S               )
NAME] under power of attorney dated      )
[insert date] in the presence of         )

--------------------------------------------     -------------------------------
Signature of witness                             Attorney

--------------------------------------------
Name of witness (print)

                                       62
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                            SCHEDULE 2 - ISSUE NOTICE

                          TO BE ON ISSUER'S LETTERHEAD

Date:

To:        [Subscriber]
           [Address]

And        ANZ Capel Court Limited
           Level 2, 20 Martin Place
           SYDNEY  NSW  2000

We refer to clause 6 of the Debenture Trust Deed dated [ ] 2000 ('DEBENTURE
TRUST DEED'). Terms used in this notice which are defined in the Debenture Trust
Deed have the meanings so defined.

1.      We give you irrevocable notice that we wish to issue debentures in an
        amount of $[ ] on [ ] ('ISSUE DATE')

2.      Particulars of the debentures are as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                    FACE VALUE                 FUNDING PERIOD
                ------------------          --------------------
<S>                                         <C>
                [                ]          [                  ]
                [                ]          [                  ]
                [                ]          [                  ]
</TABLE>

3.      We request that the proceeds of subscription for debentures be remitted
        to account number [   ] at
        [   ] [INSERT ALTERNATIVE INSTRUCTIONS, IF REQUIRED].

4.      We represent and warrant that:

        (a)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] the representations and
                warranties in the Debenture Trust Deed are true as though they
                had been made at the date of this Issue Notice and the Issue
                Date specified above in respect of the facts and circumstances
                then subsisting;

        (b)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] no Event of Default or
                Potential Event of Default is subsisting or will result from the
                issue of the Debenture; [and]

        (c)     details of the exceptions to paragraphs (a) and (b) are as
                follows: [   ], and we [have taken][propose] the following
                remedial action: [   ].

        We acknowledge that inclusion of a statement under paragraph (c) will
        not prejudice your rights under the Debenture Trust Deed, including
        under clause 15 of the Debenture Trust Deed, or affect the operation of
        clause 12.2 of the Debenture Trust Deed.

For and on behalf of
PENFORD HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED
-------------------------------------
Authorised Officer

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                           SCHEDULE 3 - FUNDING NOTICE

                          TO BE ON ISSUER'S LETTERHEAD

Date:

To:        [Agent]

And        [                 ]
           [Address]

We refer to clause 9 of the Debenture Trust Deed dated [ ] 2000 ('DEBENTURE
TRUST DEED'). Terms used in this notice which are defined in the Debenture Trust
Deed have the meanings so defined:

1.      We give you irrevocable notice that the next Funding Period for the
        following Debentures is as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                  DEBENTURE
        DEBENTURE HOLDER        CERTIFICATE NO.          FUNDING PERIOD
       -------------------   -------------------   ----------------------------
<S>                          <C>                   <C>
       [                 ]   [                 ]   [                          ]
       [                 ]   [                 ]   [                          ]
</TABLE>

2.      We represent and warrant that:

        (a)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] the representations and
                warranties in the Debenture Trust Deed are true as though they
                had been made at the date of this Funding Notice and the Funding
                Date specified above in respect of the facts and circumstances
                then subsisting;

        (b)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] no Event of Default or
                Potential Event of Default is subsisting; [and]

        (c)     details of the exceptions to paragraphs (a) and (b) are as
                follows: [   ], and we [have taken][propose] the following
                remedial action: [   ].

        We acknowledge that inclusion of a statement under paragraph (c) will
        not prejudice your rights under the Debenture Trust Deed, including
        under clause 15 of the Debenture Trust Deed, or affect the operation of
        clause 12.2 of the Debenture Trust Deed.

For and on behalf of
PENFORD HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED
--------------------------------
Authorised Officer

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                         SCHEDULE 4 - APPLICABLE MARGIN

                                  (CLAUSE 1.1)

TRANCHE 1 DEBENTURES

The Applicable Margin shall be the rate per annum set out in the table below
opposite the applicable Level for such quarter.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                              TRANCHE 1 DEBENTURES
              LEVEL                    APPLICABLE MARGIN IN BASIS POINTS
            ----------                 ---------------------------------
<S>                               <C>
             Level I                                  175

             Level II                                 200

            Level III                                 225
</TABLE>

In this Schedule:

"LEVEL I" applies on any day after the Reporting Date if, on such day, the
applicable Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 2:1.

"LEVEL II" applies on any day after the Reporting Date if, on such day, the
applicable Leverage Ratio is greater than 2:1 and less than or equal to 2.5:1.

"LEVEL III" applies until the Reporting Date and on any day thereafter if, on
such day, the applicable Leverage Ratio is greater than 2.5:1.

Levels I, II and III shall be determined in the manner specified in Schedule III
of the US Credit Agreement and 'Reporting Date' has the meaning given in that
Schedule.

TRANCHE 2 DEBENTURES

The Applicable Margin is equal to 35 basis points.

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<PAGE>   71
                   SCHEDULE 5 -- REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

                                   (CLAUSE 11)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
               DATE                               PRINCIPAL AMOUNT TO BE REPAID
       -------------------                        -----------------------------
<S>                                               <C>
           31 May 2001                                    $1,845,562.38

          31 August 2001                                  $1,845,562.38

         30 November 2001                                 $2,768,345.49

         28 February 2002                                 $2,768,345.49

           31 May 2002                                    $2,768,345.49

          31 August 2002                                  $2,768,345.49

         30 November 2002                                 $2,768,345.49

         28 February 2003                                 $2,768,345.49

           31 May 2003                                    $2,768,345.49

          31 August 2003                                  $2,768,345.49

         30 November 2003                                 $2,768,345.49

         28 February 2004                                 $2,768,345.49

           31 May 2004                                    $2,768,345.49

          31 August 2004                                  $2,768,345.49

         30 November 2004                                 $2,768,345.49

         28 February 2005                                 $2,768,345.49

           31 May 2005                                    $2,768,345.49

          31 August 2005                                  $2,768,337.81
</TABLE>

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<TABLE>
<S>  <C>
EXECUTED as a deed.

SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by               )
Renu Gupta                                   )
as attorney for PENFORD HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED )
under power of attorney dated  13 November   )
2000                                         )
in the presence of                           )

/s/ Andrew Nafranowicz                           /s/ Renu Gupta
--------------------------------------------     --------------------------------------------
Signature of witness                             Attorney

Andrew Nafranowicz
--------------------------------------------
Name of witness (print)

SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by ANZ CAPEL     )   ANZ CAPEL COURT LIMITED by its Attorney. .
COURT LIMITED by its Attorney . . .          )   Mark Fitzpatrick. . . . . . . . . . . .
Mark Fitzpatrick. . . . . . . . . .          )   and I, the said Attorney, state that I
who is personally known to me                )   have not received any notice of the
                                             )   revocation of the Power of Attorney dated
                                             )   15/11/00 under which this document is
                                             )   executed
                                             )

/s/ Andrew Nafranowicz                           /s/ Mark Fitzpatrick
--------------------------------------------     --------------------------------------------
Signature of witness
</TABLE>

                                       67<PAGE>   1
                                                                    Exhibit 10.3

                            PENFORD AUSTRALIA LIMITED
                                  ('BORROWER')

                 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED
                                    ('AGENT')

                         EACH PARTY NAMED IN SCHEDULE 1
                             (EACH A 'PARTICIPANT')

                          SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT

                                 MINTER ELLISON
                                     Lawyers
                             Minter Ellison Building
                                 44 Martin Place
                                 SYDNEY NSW 2000

                                  DX 117 SYDNEY
                            Telephone (02) 9210 4444
                            Facsimile (02) 9235 2711
                           Reference AMN/RCA:10890732

<PAGE>   2
                                TABLE OF CONTENTS
<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
1.       INTERPRETATION......................................................................1
         1.1     Definitions.................................................................1
         1.2     Interpretation.............................................................10
         1.3     Bill Facility references...................................................11
         1.4     Calculations on daily basis................................................12
         1.5     Subsisting Events of Default...............................................12
         1.6     Certified copies of documents..............................................12
         1.7     Things required to be done on a Business Day...............................12

2.       BILL FACILITY......................................................................12

3.       OVERDRAFT FACILITY.................................................................13
         3.1     Conditions precedent to drawing under Overdraft Facility...................13
         3.2     Overdraft Account..........................................................13
         3.3     Payment of interest on overdraft...........................................13
         3.4     Repayment and redrawing....................................................13
         3.5     Fees and charges...........................................................13
         3.6     Termination of Overdraft Facility..........................................13

4.       THE PARTICIPANTS...................................................................14
         4.1     Participation in Bill Facility.............................................14
         4.2     Obligations and rights several only........................................14

5.       PURPOSE............................................................................14

6.       CONDITIONS PRECEDENT...............................................................14
         6.1     Conditions precedent to first Drawing......................................14
         6.2     Conditions precedent to all Drawings.......................................15
         6.3     Waiver.....................................................................15

7.       DRAWDOWN NOTICES AND ROLLOVER NOTICES..............................................16
         7.1     Drawdown Notices...........................................................16
         7.2     Rollover Notices...........................................................16

8.       RESTRICTIONS ON DRAWINGS...........................................................16
         8.1     Limitation on Drawdown Notices and Rollover Notices........................16
         8.2     Minimum principal amount...................................................16
         8.3     Maximum number of Drawings.................................................16

9.       FUNDING PERIODS....................................................................16
         9.1     Selection of Funding Periods...............................................16
         9.2     Funding Periods: restrictions..............................................17
         9.3     Failure to select Funding Period...........................................17

10.      DRAWING............................................................................17
         10.1    Notifying Participants.....................................................17
         10.2    Preparation of Bills.......................................................17
         10.3    Authority of Participants to sign Bills....................................18
         10.4    Restrictions on use of Bills...............................................18
         10.5    Notification of Discount Rate..............................................18
         10.6    Acceptance and discounting.................................................18
         10.7    Indemnity and cash cover...................................................19
         10.8    Participant as holder......................................................19
</TABLE>

<PAGE>   3
<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
         10.9    Variation of procedures....................................................19
         10.10   Netting off................................................................19

11.      FINAL REPAYMENT....................................................................19

12.      PREPAYMENTS........................................................................20
         12.1    Prepayment.................................................................20
         12.2    Partial prepayment.........................................................20
         12.3    Additional amounts due.....................................................20
         12.4    Allocation among Participants..............................................20
         12.5    Limitation on prepayments..................................................20

13.      CANCELLATION/REDUCTION OF COMMITMENTS..............................................20
         13.1    Termination Date...........................................................20
         13.2    Cancellation by Borrower during Commitment Period..........................21
         13.3    Cancellation of Commitments on cancellation of Total Commitment............21

14.      PAYMENTS...........................................................................21
         14.1    Payments to be on a Business Day...........................................21
         14.2    Manner of payment..........................................................21
         14.3    Amounts payable on demand..................................................21
         14.4    Deduction or withholding required..........................................21
         14.5    GST........................................................................22
         14.6    Distribution by Agent......................................................22
         14.7    Anticipatory payments......................................................22
         14.8    Insufficient payments......................................................22
         14.9    Payments and receipts in foreign currency..................................22

15.      SHARING OF PAYMENTS................................................................23

16.      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.....................................................23
         16.1    Representations and warranties.............................................23
         16.2    Representations and warranties repeated....................................27

17.      REPORTING OBLIGATIONS AND ACCESS...................................................27
         17.1    Notices to the Agent.......................................................27
         17.2    Accounts and other information.............................................28
         17.3    Preparation and form of Accounts...........................................30
         17.4    Giving access to records and land..........................................30
         17.5    Investigating Accountants..................................................30

18.      GENERAL AND FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS..................................................31
         18.1    Positive obligations.......................................................31
         18.2    Negative obligations.......................................................33

19.      EVENTS OF DEFAULT..................................................................35
         19.1    Events of Default..........................................................35
         19.2    Effect of Event of Default.................................................38

20.      INCREASED COSTS....................................................................39
         20.1    Increased costs............................................................39
         20.2    Method of calculation......................................................39

21.      ILLEGALITY.........................................................................39
</TABLE>

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<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
22.      FEES...............................................................................40
         22.1    Commitment fee.............................................................40
         22.2    Rollover fee...............................................................40
         22.3    Fees non-refundable........................................................40

23.      COSTS AND EXPENSES.................................................................40

24.      TAXES..............................................................................41
         24.1    Borrower to pay Taxes......................................................41
         24.2    Fines and penalties........................................................41

25.      GENERAL INDEMNITY..................................................................42

26.      DEFAULT INTEREST...................................................................42
         26.1    Default interest...........................................................42
         26.2    Interest following judgment................................................43
         26.3    Capitalisation.............................................................43

27.      AGENT..............................................................................43

28.      ASSIGNMENT AND SUBSTITUTION........................................................43
         28.1    By Borrower................................................................43
         28.2    By Participants............................................................43
         28.3    Substitution...............................................................44
         28.4    Transferor released from obligations.......................................45
         28.5    Sub-participation, securitisation and credit derivative permitted..........45
         28.6    Disclosure of information..................................................45
         28.7    Change of Funding Office...................................................45
         28.8    Assignment of Overdraft Facility...........................................45

29.      NOTICES............................................................................45
         29.1    How given..................................................................45
         29.2    Effect.....................................................................46
         29.3    Deemed receipt.............................................................46
         29.4    Notice provisions in other Financing Documents.............................46

30.      CONFIDENTIALITY....................................................................47

31.      PRESERVING THE FINANCIERS' POWERS..................................................47
         31.1    Preservation...............................................................47
         31.2    No obligation to exercise rights or give consent...........................47
         31.3    Powers.....................................................................48
         31.4    Choice of securities and Guarantees........................................48
         31.5    Indemnities generally......................................................48
         31.6    Consent and waivers........................................................48
         31.7    Avoidance of transaction...................................................48
         31.8    Moratorium legislation.....................................................49

32.      OTHER PROVISIONS...................................................................49
         32.1    Notification from Borrower.................................................49
         32.2    Financiers may set off.....................................................49
         32.3    Borrower may not set off...................................................50
         32.4    Notices or demands as evidence.............................................50
         32.5    Severability...............................................................50
         32.6    Entire agreement...........................................................51
         32.7    Variation of agreement.....................................................51
</TABLE>

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<TABLE>
<S>      <C>
         32.8    Authorised Officers and communications.....................................51
         32.9    Communications and payments through Agent..................................51
         32.10   Conflict...................................................................51
         32.11   Term of obligations........................................................51
         32.12   Suspense account...........................................................51
         32.13   Governing law, jurisdiction and service of process.........................52
         32.14   Appointment of attorney....................................................52
         32.15   Attorneys appointed under this document - general provisions...............52
         32.16   Attorneys..................................................................52
         32.17   Counterparts...............................................................53

SCHEDULE 1 - PARTICIPANTS...................................................................54

SCHEDULE 2 - CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO FIRST DRAWING..........................................55

SCHEDULE 3 - DRAWDOWN NOTICE................................................................56

SCHEDULE 4 - ROLLOVER NOTICE................................................................57

SCHEDULE 5 - SUBSTITUTION CERTIFICATE.......................................................58

SCHEDULE 6 - VERIFICATION CERTIFICATE.......................................................62

SCHEDULE 7 - APPLICABLE MARGIN AND COMMITMENT FEE...........................................65

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</TABLE>
<PAGE>   6
                          SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT

AGREEMENT dated                                                         2000

BETWEEN     PENFORD AUSTRALIA LIMITED ACN 003 780 229 of 170 Epping Road,
            Lane Cove, NSW 2066 (formerly Starch Australasia Limited)
            ('BORROWER')

AND         AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED ACN 005 357 522 of
            Level 13, 20 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000 ('AGENT')

AND         EACH PARTY NAMED IN SCHEDULE 1 (each a 'PARTICIPANT')

RECITAL

This document sets out the terms on which the Participants agree to provide a
revolving syndicated bill acceptance and discount facility to the Borrower and
the Agent agrees to provide an overdraft facility to the Borrower. It also
contains provisions governing the relationship between the Agent and the
Participants.

AGREEMENT

1.      INTERPRETATION

1.1     DEFINITIONS

        In this document:

        'ACCOUNTING STANDARDS' means, in respect of a company, generally
        accepted accounting principles and practices consistently applied in the
        country of incorporation of that company, including any domestically
        accepted international accounting standards.

        'ACCOUNTS' means profit and loss accounts, balance sheets, cash flow
        statements and statements, reports (including auditors' reports and
        directors' reports) and notes attached to, or intended to be read with,
        any of them.

        'ANZ' means Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ACN 005 357
        522.

        'ANZ'S REFERENCE RATE' means, on a particular day, the rate ANZ has most
        recently published in the Australian Financial Review before that day as
        its reference rate, or if no such rate is published, the rate determined
        from time to time by ANZ to be its reference rate.

        'APPLICABLE MARGIN' means the applicable margin determined in accordance
        with Schedule 7.

        'ATTORNEY' means an attorney appointed under a Financing Document.
<PAGE>   7
        'AUTHORISATION' includes:

        (a)     any consent, authorisation, registration, filing, agreement,
                notarisation, certificate, permission, licence, approval or
                exemption from, by or with a Public Authority; or

        (b)     in relation to anything which is prohibited or restricted by law
                if a Public Authority takes certain action within a specified
                period, the expiry of that period without the Public Authority
                taking that action.

        'AUTHORISED OFFICER' means:

        'AUTHORISED OFFICER' means:

        (a)     in respect of the Borrower, any director or secretary of the
                Borrower or any person appointed by the Borrower and notified in
                writing to the Agent from time to time to act as an Authorised
                Officer for the purposes of the Financing Documents. (The notice
                must be signed by the company secretary or a director of the
                Borrower and be given to the Agent with a specimen signature of
                the person); and

        (b)     in respect of a Financier, a person holding or acting in the
                office of director, chief executive or secretary or whose title
                includes the word 'Manager', 'President' or 'Vice-President' or
                a person performing the functions of any of those offices or any
                person appointed by a Financier from time to time to act as an
                Authorised Officer for the purposes of the Financing Documents
                and notified in writing to the Agent (in the case of a
                Participant) or the Borrower and the Participants (in the case
                of the Agent).

        'AVAILABLE COMMITMENT' means, in relation to a Participant, the
        Participant's Commitment less the amount of its participation in the
        Outstanding Bill Amount.

        'BANK BILL RATE' means, for a period:

        (a)     the average bid rate which is shown at approximately 10.15am on
                page 'BBSY' on the Reuters Monitor System on the first day of
                that period for bank accepted Bills having a term equal or
                approximately equal to that period;

        (b)     if:

                (i)     it is not possible for any reason for the Agent to
                        determine the Bank Bill Rate under paragraph (a); or

                (ii)    in the Agent's opinion, the basis on which the rate
                        referred to in paragraph (a) is calculated has changed
                        adversely to the Participants,

                the Bank Bill Rate will be the average, rounded upwards if
                necessary to four decimal places and expressed as a yield
                percentage per annum, of the bid rates quoted by each Reference
                Bank at or about 10.30am on that day (or such number of
                Reference Banks as provide quotes to the Agent at that time on
                that day), for bank accepted Bills having a term as described
                above, as conclusively determined in good faith by the Agent; or

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        (c)     if it is not possible for any reason for the Agent to determine
                the Bank Bill Rate under paragraphs (a) or (b) above, the Bank
                Bill Rate will be the rate determined by the Agent in good faith
                to be its cost of funds for that period.

        'BILL' means a bill of exchange as defined in the Bills of Exchange Act
        1909 (Cth), but does not include a cheque.

        'BILL FACILITY' means the revolving syndicated bill acceptance and
        discount facility agreed to be provided to the Borrower by the
        Participants under clause 2.

        'BORROWER PARTY' means Penford Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries.

        'BUSINESS DAY' means a week day on which banks are open for general
        banking business in Sydney.

        'COLLATERAL SECURITY' means each present or future Security Interest,
        Guarantee or other document or agreement created or entered into as
        security (directly or indirectly) for the payment of the Secured Money
        or the performance by the Borrower of any of its obligations to a
        Financier under the Financing Documents but does not include the Letter
        of Credit.

        'COMMITMENT' means, in relation to a Participant, the amount so
        specified in Schedule 1 or in a Substitution Certificate, as cancelled
        or varied under this document or a Substitution Certificate.

        'COMMITMENT PERIOD' means the period starting on the date of this
        document and ending on the Termination Date.

        'CONTESTED TAX' means a Tax assessed as payable by the Borrower or a
        Subsidiary of a Borrower where the Borrower or Subsidiary:

        (a)     is diligently contesting the Tax in good faith and in accordance
                with proper procedures and laws;

        (b)     is not required by applicable law to pay the Tax before the
                contest has been decided; and

        (c)     has set aside sufficient reserves of liquid assets to pay the
                Tax and any fine, penalty, interest or other cost payable if the
                contest is unsuccessful.

        'CURRENT FINANCIAL INFORMATION' means, at any time, the latest Accounts,
        reports and other financial information provided by the Borrower to the
        Agent under this document.

        'DEFAULT RATE' has the meaning given to it in clause 26 (Default
        interest).

        'DERIVATIVE TRANSACTION' means any agreement or transaction which is:

        (a)     a futures contract (including a futures contract as defined in
                the Corporations Law); or

        (b)     a 'Specified Transaction' as defined in the 1992 ISDA Master
                Agreement or a 'Transaction' as defined in the 1996 ISDA Equity
                Derivatives Definitions (both as published by the International
                Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.),

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        or any other agreement or transaction of a similar nature or effect to
        any of the above.

        'DISCOUNT RATE' means the Bank Bill Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

        'DOLLARS' and '$' means Australian dollars.

        'DRAWDOWN DATE' means a date on which a Drawing is or is to be made.

        'DRAWDOWN NOTICE' means a notice given in accordance with clause 7
        (Drawdown Notices and Rollover Notices).

        'DRAWING' means a provision of financial accommodation to the Borrower
        under the Bill Facility (including pursuant to a Rollover Notice).
        Financial accommodation having the same Funding Period and Drawdown Date
        constitutes one Drawing.

        'ENVIRONMENT' means the physical and radiative factors of the
        surroundings of persons including the land, waters, atmosphere, climate,
        sound, odours, taste, electromagnetism, radioactivity, the biological
        factors of animals and plants and the social factor of aesthetics.

        'ENVIRONMENTAL LAW' means a law regulating or otherwise relating to the
        Environment, including any law relating to land or water use, planning,
        building, heritage, coastal protection, water catchments, pollution,
        noise, smell, soil or ground water contamination, soil conservation,
        nature conservation, chemicals, waste, use of dangerous goods or
        hazardous substances, public and occupational health and safety, noxious
        trades or any other aspect of protection of the Environment or any
        person or property.

        'ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY' means any obligation or Loss under an
        Environmental Law imposed on a Borrower Party (or any of its officers),
        a Financier (or any of its officers), the Agent (or any of its officers)
        or any occupier of a Property, as a result of activities carried on
        during the ownership or occupation of the Property by any person at any
        time.

        'ESTABLISHMENT FEE' has the meaning given in the Subscription Agreement.

        'EVENT OF DEFAULT' means each event specified in clause 19.1 (Events of
        Default).

        'EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATOR' means an administrator, receiver, receiver and
        manager, trustee, provisional liquidator, liquidator or any other person
        (however described) holding or appointed to an analogous office or
        acting or purporting to act in an analogous capacity.

        'FACILITIES' means the Bill Facility and the Overdraft Facility granted
        to the Borrower under this document.

        'FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS' means any actual or contingent debt or other
        monetary liability arising in respect of money borrowed or raised or any
        financial accommodation provided, including in respect of any:

        (a)     negotiable or financial instrument or a discounting arrangement;

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        (b)     Guarantee;

        (c)     trade or vendor financing or deferred purchase price (for more
                than 90 days) of any asset or service;

        (d)     a lease constituting, or accounted for in a similar way to, a
                finance lease or capitalised lease under Accounting Standards;

        (e)     obligation to deliver goods or other property or provide
                services paid for in advance by any financier or in relation to
                any other financing transaction;

        (f)     redemption of any preference shares or acquisition of redeemable
                preference shares; or

        (g)     Derivative Transaction.

        'FINANCIER' means the Agent or a Participant.

        'FINANCING DOCUMENT' means each of:

        (a)     this document;

        (b)     the Security Trust Deed;

        (c)     the fixed and floating charge granted by the Borrower in favour
                of the Security Trustee over all its present and future assets
                other than assets in the Australian Capital Territory and the
                Northern Territory;

        (d)     the fixed and floating charge granted by the Borrower in favour
                of the Security Trustee over all its present and future assets
                in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory;

        (e)     the fixed and floating charge granted by Penford Holdings in
                favour of the Security Trustee over all its present and future
                assets;

        (f)     the fixed and floating charge granted by Starch New Zealand
                Limited in favour of the Security Trustee over all its present
                and future assets;

        (g)     the guarantee and indemnity from Penford Holdings on account of
                the Borrower in favour of the Security Trustee;

        (h)     the guarantee and indemnity from Starch New Zealand Limited on
                account of the Borrower in favour of the Security Trustee;

        (i)     real property mortgages from each of the Borrower and Starch New
                Zealand Limited over all real property owned by them;

        (j)     a Collateral Security;

        (k)     a document that the Borrower and the Agent agree is a Financing
                Document; and

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        (l)     a document entered into or given under or in connection with, or
                for the purpose of amending or novating, any Financing Document.

        'FUNDING OFFICE' means, in respect of a Participant, the office so
        specified in Schedule 1 or in a Substitution Certificate or such other
        office as it may specify to the Agent under clause 28.7 (Change of
        Funding Office).

        'FUNDING PERIOD' means, in relation to a Drawing, the term selected for
        that Drawing under clause 9 (Funding Periods).

        'GROUP' means Penford Corporation and its Subsidiaries.

        'GST' has the meaning given in A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax)
        Act 1999.

        'GUARANTEE' means a guarantee, indemnity, letter of credit, letter of
        comfort or any other obligation or irrevocable offer (whatever it is
        called and whatever its nature):

        (a)     to provide funds (whether by the advance or payment of money,
                the purchase of or subscription for shares or other securities,
                the purchase of assets or services, or otherwise) for the
                payment or discharge of;

        (b)     to indemnify any person against the consequences of default in
                the payment of; or

        (c)     to be responsible for,

        an obligation or monetary liability of another person, a dividend,
        distribution, capital or premium on shares, stock or other interests, or
        the solvency or financial condition of another person.

        'INSOLVENCY' of a person includes:

        (a)     the Winding Up of the person;

        (b)     the appointment of an External Administrator to the person;

        (c)     any composition, compromise, arrangement, merger, amalgamation,
                reconstruction, administration, assignment for the benefit of
                creditors or insolvency of, by, or adversely affecting the
                person and any procedure which is equivalent or analogous in any
                jurisdiction; and

        (d)     the death or permanent incapacity of the person.

        'INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY' means any intellectual or industrial property
        including:

        (a)     any patent, trade mark (whether registered or common law), trade
                name, copyright, registered design, trade secret, confidential
                information, know-how or computer program; and

        (b)     any licence or other right to use or to grant the use of or to
                be the registered owner or user of any of them.

        'INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT' has the meaning given in the US Credit
        Agreement.

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        'LEASE' means any arrangement whereby an asset may be used or managed by
        a person other than the owner. It includes a licence.

        'LENDER' has the meaning given to it in the US Credit Agreement.

        'LETTER OF CREDIT' has the meaning given to it in the US Credit
        Agreement.

        'LEVERAGE RATIO' has the meaning given to it in the US Credit Agreement.

        'LOSS' means a loss, claim, action, damage, liability, cost, charge,
        expense, penalty, compensation, fine, outgoing or payment suffered, paid
        or incurred.

        'MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT' means a material adverse effect on:

        (a)     the effectiveness of, or the ability of any Borrower Party to
                observe its obligations under, a Relevant Document;

        (b)     the market value or marketability of any asset the subject of a
                Collateral Security; or

        (c)     the financial condition or business of any Borrower Party.

        'MATERIAL DOCUMENT' means each of the following:

        (a)     the Sale Agreement;

        (b)     the 'Hi-maize Supply Agreement' dated 29 August 2000 between the
                Borrower, Goodman Fielder Mills Limited, Quality Bakers
                Australia Limited and The Uncle Tobys Company Limited;

        (c)     the 'Hi-maize Access Deed' dated 29 August 2000 between Penford
                Holdings, the Borrower, Quality Bakers Australia Limited and
                Goodman Fielder Limited; and

        (d)     the letter of offer dated 26 September 2000 by BNP Pacific
                (Australia) Limited to the Borrower;

        'OUTSTANDING BILL AMOUNT' means, at any time, the aggregate principal
        amount of all then outstanding Drawings.

        'OVERDRAFT ACCOUNT' means the account with ANZ under which overdraft
        financial accommodation is made available to the Borrower under the
        Overdraft Facility.

        'OVERDRAFT FACILITY' means the overdraft facility agreed to be provided
        to the Borrower by ANZ under clause 3.

        'OVERDRAFT LIMIT' means $3,000,000 or such other amount as the Agent and
        the Borrower may agree from time to time.

        'PARTICIPANT' means each party listed in Schedule 1 and any person that
        executes a Substitution Certificate as 'Incoming Participant' (on the
        substitution taking effect).

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        'PENFORD DEBENTURE TRUST DEED' means the debenture trust deed between
        Penford Holdings and ANZ Capel Court Limited ACN 004 768 807 dated on or
        about the date of this document.

        'PENFORD HOLDINGS' means Penford Holdings Pty Limited ACN 094 279 339.

        'PENFORD SECURITY TRUST' means the security trust created under the
        Security Trust Deed.

        'PERMITTED FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS' means Financial Indebtedness
        permitted under the Financing Documents and the facility for $12,000,000
        granted to the Borrower by BNP Pacific (Australia) Limited pursuant to
        the letter of offer dated 26 September 2000.

        'PERMITTED SECURITY INTEREST' means, in relation to a person:

        (a)     a Collateral Security over any of the person's assets;

        (b)     a Security Interest over any of the person's assets to which the
                Agent (acting on the instructions of the Required Lenders) has
                consented, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
                delayed. It does not include a Security Interest to which the
                Agent has consented on one or more conditions if those
                conditions are not complied with; and

        (c)     a lien or charge arising by operation of law in the ordinary
                course of the person's ordinary business. It does not include a
                lien or charge that secures debts overdue for more than 10
                Business Days or debts for more than $50,000.

        'POTENTIAL EVENT OF DEFAULT' means any event, thing or circumstance
        which with the giving of notice or passage of time or both would become
        an Event of Default.

        'POWER' means any right, power, discretion or remedy of a Financier, a
        Lender, a Receiver or an Attorney under any Financing Document or
        applicable law.

        'PROPERTY' means all real property leased, occupied, used in relation to
        or necessary for its business or owned by any Borrower Party at any
        time.

        'PUBLIC AUTHORITY' includes the Crown, any government and any
        governmental, semi-governmental, public, administrative, regulatory or
        judicial entity. It includes a Minister, a statutory corporation, a
        self-regulatory organisation or supervisory authority established by
        statute and any stock or futures exchange.

        'PURCHASE' means the purchase by Penford Holdings of all the issued
        shares in the Borrower.

        'RECEIVER' means a receiver or receiver and manager appointed under a
        Collateral Security.

        'REFERENCE BANK' means each of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia,
        National Australia Bank Limited and Westpac Banking Corporation, and any
        other bank appointed as a Reference Bank, in addition to or in place of
        any of them, by agreement between the Borrower and the Agent (acting on
        the instructions of the Required Lenders).

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        'RELATED ENTITY' of an entity means an entity which is related to the
        first entity under section 50 of the Corporations Law.

        'RELEVANT DOCUMENT' means a Financing Document or a Material Document.

        'REQUIRED LENDERS' has the meaning given in the Intercreditor Agreement.

        'ROLLOVER DATE' means the last day of a Funding Period.

        'ROLLOVER NOTICE' means a notice given in accordance with clause 7
        (Drawdown Notices and Rollover Notices).

        'SALE AGREEMENT' means the sale agreement dated 29 August 2000 between
        Goodman Fielder Ingredients Limited ACN 000 147 580 and Penford Holdings
        in respect of the Purchase;

        'SECURED MONEY' means, at any time, all money (in whatever currency)
        that the Borrower is at that time liable (actually, prospectively or
        contingently) to pay to any Financier on any account and in any way
        whatever under or in connection with a Financing Document (including by
        way of principal, interest, fees, costs, charges, expenses, Guarantee
        obligations or damages and money which the Borrower would be liable to
        pay but for its Insolvency).

        'SECURED PROPERTY' means all property the subject of a Collateral
        Security.

        'SECURITY INTEREST' means a mortgage, charge, lien or pledge or any
        other right by way of security (including a right of set-off in respect
        of a deposit or a right to retain funds the subject of a flawed deposit
        arrangement) of a creditor to have its claims satisfied before other
        creditors with or from the proceeds of any asset.

        'SECURITY TRUST DEED' means the security trust deed dated on or about
        the date of this document between the Borrower and the Security Trustee
        creating the security trust known as the 'Penford Security Trust'.

        'SECURITY TRUSTEE' means ANZ Capel Court Limited ACN 004 768 807.

        'STARCH NEW ZEALAND LIMITED' means Starch New Zealand Limited a duly
        incorporated company having its registered office at Auckland and having
        the company number AK163345.

        'SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT' has the meaning given in the Penford Debenture
        Trust Deed.

        'SUBSIDIARY' of an entity means an entity that is:

        (a)     a subsidiary of the first entity under section 46 of the
                Corporations Law; or

        (b)     a subsidiary of, or otherwise controlled by, the first entity
                under any Accounting Standard in Australia.

        'SUBSTITUTION CERTIFICATE' means a substitution certificate
        substantially in the form of Schedule 5 or another form agreed to by the
        Agent (on the instructions of the Required Lenders).

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        'TAX' means a tax, levy, duty or charge (and associated penalty or
        interest) imposed by a Public Authority. It includes stamp duty and
        other taxes of a similar nature, income tax, withholding tax, GST and
        transaction taxes and duties, but does not include tax on the overall
        net income of a Financier.

        'TERMINATION DATE' means 31 October 2003 or any earlier date on which
        the Secured Money becomes due and payable under this document.

        'TOTAL AVAILABLE COMMITMENT' means the sum of the Available Commitments
        of the Participants.

        'TOTAL COMMITMENT' means $19,193,857 as cancelled or reduced under this
        document.

        'US CREDIT AGREEMENT' means the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
        dated as of 15 November 2000 between Penford Corporation, Penford
        Products Co., certain commercial lending institutions and The Bank of
        Nova Scotia.

        'WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY' of a body corporate means another body
        corporate that is:

        (a)     a wholly owned subsidiary of the first within the meaning of the
                Corporations Law; and

        (b)     not a trustee of any trust.

        'WINDING UP' includes:

        (a)     dissolution, liquidation, provisional liquidation and
                bankruptcy; and

        (b)     any analogous or equivalent procedure in any jurisdiction.

1.2     INTERPRETATION

        In this document:

        (a)     the singular includes the plural and vice versa;

        (b)     one gender includes all genders;

        (c)     other grammatical forms of defined words or expressions have
                corresponding meanings;

        (d)     a reference to a party to this document includes that party's
                successors and permitted substitutes and assigns;

        (e)     a reference to a document or agreement includes that document or
                agreement as amended, novated, supplemented or replaced from
                time to time except to the extent prohibited by a Financing
                Document;

        (f)     a reference to any thing includes the whole or any part of that
                thing and a reference to a group of things or persons includes
                each thing or person in that group;

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        (g)     references to clauses, schedules and annexures are references to
                clauses of and schedules and annexures to this document;

        (h)     references to 'persons' or words implying natural persons
                include bodies corporate, joint ventures, partnerships, trusts,
                associations, unincorporated bodies and Public Authorities;

        (i)     references to 'entities' include entities as defined for any
                purpose under Accounting Standards;

        (j)     a reference to time is a reference to Sydney time;

        (k)     a reference to any legislation or statutory instrument or
                regulation is construed in accordance with the Acts
                Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) or the equivalent State
                legislation, as applicable;

        (l)     'including' and cognate expressions indicate what is included
                without limiting what may be included;

        (m)     a reference to an agreement includes any legally enforceable
                arrangement, understanding, undertaking or representation
                whether or not in writing;

        (n)     a reference to a Borrower Party includes a reference to the
                party both in its own right and as trustee. Without limitation,
                where a Borrower incurs an obligation, it incurs the obligation
                both in its own right and as trustee;

        (o)     a reference to 'property' or an 'asset' includes a reference to
                any right or interest in, or right to use, property or assets,
                to future property or assets, to things in action and to
                intangible property or assets; and

        (p)     headings are inserted for convenience and do not affect the
                interpretation of this document.

        No provision or expression is to be construed against a party on the
        basis that the party (or its advisers) was responsible for the drafting
        of this document.

1.3     BILL FACILITY REFERENCES

        In this document:

        (a)     a reference to 'repayment' or 'prepayment' (and like
                expressions) means, in relation to all or part of a Drawing,
                payment to the Agent of the aggregate face value of the Bills
                comprised in the Drawing;

        (b)     a reference to 'principal' or 'principal amount' means, in
                relation to a Drawing, the aggregate face value of the
                outstanding Bills comprised in the Drawing;

        (c)     a reference to an 'outstanding' Bill is to a Bill which has been
                accepted or discounted (or both) under this document and in
                respect of which the Borrower has not paid the face amount or
                provided cash cover under this document (whether or not that
                Bill has matured or has been presented for payment or paid on
                presentation by a Financier). A reference to an 'outstanding'
                Drawing has a corresponding meaning; and

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        (d)     a reference to the drawing, acceptance, endorsement or other
                dealing of or with a Bill is to be interpreted by reference to
                the Bills of Exchange Act 1909 (Cth).

1.4     CALCULATIONS ON DAILY BASIS

        All interest, amounts in the nature of interest (including discount
        amounts) and fees under this document will be calculated on a daily
        basis and a year of 365 days.

1.5     SUBSISTING EVENTS OF DEFAULT

        An Event of Default or Potential Event of Default is 'subsisting' under
        this document if it has not been either:

        (a)     remedied to the satisfaction of the Agent (acting on the
                instructions of the Required Lenders); or

        (b)     waived by the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Required
                Lenders).

1.6     CERTIFIED COPIES OF DOCUMENTS

        Where a copy of a document to be provided under this document is
        required to be certified, the certification must:

        (a)     be by a director or secretary of the Borrower;

        (b)     confirm that the copy is a true and complete copy;

        (c)     confirm that the document has not been amended or revoked; and

        (d)     unless this document otherwise provides or the Agent otherwise
                agrees, be dated no earlier than 5 Business Days before the date
                by which the copy must be provided.

        The Agent may require any copy of a document provided or to be provided
        to it under this document to be certified.

1.7     THINGS REQUIRED TO BE DONE ON A BUSINESS DAY

        If anything (other than the making of a payment) is required by this
        document to be done on or by a day which is not a Business Day, then it
        must be done on or by the next following Business Day, except as
        otherwise provided for in clause 9.2.

2.      BILL FACILITY

        Subject to this document, the Participants grant to the Borrower a
        revolving bill acceptance and discount facility under which the Borrower
        may obtain Drawings in Dollars during the Commitment Period in an
        aggregate principal amount not exceeding the Total Available Commitment.

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3.      OVERDRAFT FACILITY

3.1     CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO DRAWING UNDER OVERDRAFT FACILITY

        ANZ agrees to continue to make an Overdraft Facility available up to the
        Overdraft Limit if:

        (a)     ANZ is satisfied that the conditions precedent in clause 6 are
                satisfied; and

        (b)     the Overdraft Account has been opened in accordance with ANZ's
                procedures, including the signing of such documents as ANZ
                requires.

        ANZ may waive any one or more of these conditions.

3.2     OVERDRAFT ACCOUNT

        (a)     ANZ may debit to the Overdraft Account any money due to ANZ by
                the Borrower under this document or otherwise.

        (b)     Despite anything else in this document, any debit balance in the
                Overdraft Account is repayable by the Borrower on demand by ANZ
                at any time.

3.3     PAYMENT OF INTEREST ON OVERDRAFT

        The Borrower must pay to ANZ, interest by reference to the daily balance
        outstanding at ANZ's Reference Rate plus the Applicable Margin per annum
        monthly in arrears on the first Business Day of each month, accruing
        daily and commencing on the first day the overdraft is used. Interest
        will be debited to the Overdraft Account monthly in arrears.

3.4     REPAYMENT AND REDRAWING

        The Borrower may at any time repay and redraw any advance under the
        Overdraft Facility.

3.5     FEES AND CHARGES

        The Borrower must pay all fees and charges in respect of the Overdraft
        Account as agreed from time to time.

3.6     TERMINATION OF OVERDRAFT FACILITY

        (a)     If a Lender exercises a put option or a call option under
                Section 6 of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Agent will, unless
                otherwise instructed by the Required Lenders, as soon as
                practicable give a notice to the Borrower terminating the
                Overdraft Facility on the date specified in the notice.

        (b)     On the termination date specified in the notice:

                (i)     the Total Commitment will be increased by $3,000,000 and
                        each Participant's Commitment will be increased pro
                        rata; and

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                (ii)    the Borrower must drawdown such amount under the Bill
                        Facility as is necessary to repay the amount outstanding
                        under the Overdraft Facility and that amount will be
                        applied for that purpose.

        (c)     The Borrower must sign all documents and do all things necessary
                to give effect to the provisions of this clause 3.6.

4.      THE PARTICIPANTS

4.1     PARTICIPATION IN BILL FACILITY

        Each Participant will participate through its Funding Office in each
        Drawing in the proportion which its Available Commitment at the time of
        the Drawing bears to the Total Available Commitment at that time.

4.2     OBLIGATIONS AND RIGHTS SEVERAL ONLY

        The obligations and rights of each Participant under this document are
        several. As a result:

        (a)     if a Participant does not carry out its obligations, this does
                not relieve any other Participant of its obligations;

        (b)     a Participant is not responsible for the obligations of another
                Participant, or those of the Agent; and

        (c)     subject to the Financing Documents, each Participant may
                separately enforce its rights under each Financing Document.

5.      PURPOSE

        The Borrower must use the net proceeds of Drawings only for working
        capital and other general corporate purposes, including permitted
        capital expenditures, and for purposes approved by the Required Lenders.

        A Financier may, but is under no obligation to, monitor whether the
        proceeds are actually applied in accordance with this clause.

6.      CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

6.1     CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO FIRST DRAWING

        The obligations of each Participant under this document, including the
        obligation to provide its participation in the first Drawing, are
        subject to:

        (a)     the Agent first receiving, in form and substance satisfactory to
                it and its lawyers:

                (i)     the items listed in Schedule 2;

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                (ii)    a certified copy of the corporate capital and ownership
                        structure of the Group following the Purchase;

                (iii)   the Sale Agreement and related documentation, including
                        but not limited to, financial information, legal
                        opinions, information regarding tax and accounting
                        issues, environmental matters, litigation and material
                        contracts;

                (iv)    any other information or document which the Agent
                        reasonably requests in relation to the Borrower, the
                        Purchase, any assets of the Borrower, any other
                        condition precedent or any Relevant Document;

        (b)     the Agent satisfying itself that there has not been and that
                there will not be any event or circumstance which has or is
                likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (c)     the Agent satisfying itself in relation to the assets acquired
                in respect of the Purchase; and

        (d)     the Agent satisfying itself that the Establishment Fee has been
                paid.

6.2     CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO ALL DRAWINGS

        The obligation of each Participant to provide its participation in each
        Drawing is subject to the further conditions precedent that:

        (a)     (DRAWDOWN NOTICE OR ROLLOVER NOTICE) the Agent has received a
                properly completed and duly executed Drawdown Notice or Rollover
                Notice in respect of the Drawing;

        (b)     (NO DEFAULT) no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default
                is subsisting at the date of the relevant Drawdown Notice or
                Rollover Notice or at the relevant Drawdown Date or will result
                from the provision of the Drawing;

        (c)     (AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS) provision of the Drawing will not cause
                the Total Available Commitment to be exceeded;

        (d)     (REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES) each representation and
                warranty by each Borrower Party in the Financing Documents is
                true and correct and is neither misleading nor deceptive as at
                the date of the relevant Drawdown Notice or Rollover Notice and
                at the relevant Drawdown Date as though it had been made on and
                as of that date; and

        (e)     (AUTHORISATIONS) all Authorisations necessary for the Drawing
                have been obtained.

6.3     WAIVER

        The conditions precedent in clauses 6.1 and 6.2 are for the benefit of
        the Agent and the Participants only. They may only be waived by the
        Agent (on the instructions of the Required Lenders) and only by notice
        to the Borrower.

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7.      DRAWDOWN NOTICES AND ROLLOVER NOTICES

7.1     DRAWDOWN NOTICES

        If the Borrower wishes to draw down any of the Total Available
        Commitment, it must give a Drawdown Notice to the Agent. A Drawdown
        Notice is irrevocable and must be:

        (a)     in the form set out in Schedule 3;

        (b)     duly completed and signed by an Authorised Officer of the
                Borrower; and

        (c)     delivered to the Agent on a Business Day no later than 11.00am 3
                Business Days before the proposed Drawdown Date (unless the
                Agent agrees otherwise).

        The Drawdown Date specified in a Drawdown Notice must be a Business Day.

7.2     ROLLOVER NOTICES

        If the Borrower wishes to roll over any outstanding Drawing, it must
        give a Rollover Notice to the Agent in respect of the Drawing. A
        Rollover Notice is irrevocable and must be:

        (a)     in the form set out in Schedule 4;

        (b)     duly completed and signed by an Authorised Officer of the
                Borrower; and

        (c)     delivered to the Agent no later than 11.00am 3 Business Days
                before the Rollover Date for the Drawing (unless the Agent
                agrees otherwise).

8.      RESTRICTIONS ON DRAWINGS

8.1     LIMITATION ON DRAWDOWN NOTICES AND ROLLOVER NOTICES

        A Drawdown Notice or Rollover Notice must not be given if a Drawing
        requested in it would cause a breach of, or otherwise not comply with
        the requirements of, this document.

8.2     MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

        The principal amount of each Drawing must be a minimum of $1,000,000 and
        an integral multiple of $500,000 or, if less, the Total Available
        Commitment.

8.3     MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DRAWINGS

        There must be no more than 7 Drawings outstanding at any one time.

9.      FUNDING PERIODS

9.1     SELECTION OF FUNDING PERIODS

        Funding Periods selected by the Borrower must have a term of:

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        (a)     1, 2 or 3 months; or

        (b)     any other period required under this document or to which the
                Agent agrees.

9.2     FUNDING PERIODS: RESTRICTIONS

        Despite the above:

        (a)     a Funding Period must not extend beyond the Termination Date;

        (b)     Funding Periods must be selected so that the Outstanding Bill
                Amount does not at any time exceed the Total Commitment;

        (c)     if a Funding Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a
                Business Day, it will be extended to the next Business Day in
                the same calendar month or, if none, the preceding Business Day;
                and

        (d)     if a Funding Period of a number of months commences on a date in
                a month and there is no corresponding date in the month in which
                it is to end, it will end on the last Business Day of the latter
                month.

9.3     FAILURE TO SELECT FUNDING PERIOD

        If the Borrower fails to select a Funding Period complying with this
        document, the Agent may select a Funding Period which ensures
        compliance.

10.     DRAWING

10.1    NOTIFYING PARTICIPANTS

        (a)     The Agent must promptly notify each Participant of the contents
                of each Drawdown Notice and Rollover Notice and the amount of
                the Participant's participation in each Drawing requested in the
                notice.

        (b)     If a Drawdown Notice or Rollover Notice is received by the Agent
                after 3.00pm on a Business Day, it is not required to notify
                each Participant under this clause until the following Business
                Day.

10.2    PREPARATION OF BILLS

        Where a Drawing is requested under a Drawdown Notice or Rollover Notice,
        and all conditions precedent to the provision of the Drawing have been
        satisfied, each Participant must prepare Bills complying with the
        following requirements:

        (a)     each Bill must:

                (i)     be in a form acceptable to the Participant;

                (ii)    name the Borrower as drawer;

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                (iii)   name the Participant as acceptor and be payable to the
                        Borrower or order and be endorsed in blank by the
                        Borrower;

                (iv)    be expressed to be payable at the Funding Office of the
                        Participant or at another office of the Participant
                        specified by the Participant with the agreement of the
                        Agent and the Borrower;

                (v)     have a face value of $1,000,000 or such other amount as
                        determined by the Participant; and

                (vi)    have a term equal to the Funding Period of that Drawing;
                        and

        (b)     the aggregate face value of the Bills to be prepared by and
                drawn on the Participant must be equal to the Participant's
                participation in the Drawing.

10.3    AUTHORITY OF PARTICIPANTS TO SIGN BILLS

        The Borrower for valuable consideration irrevocably authorises each
        Participant and each Authorised Officer of each Participant severally
        and in its name to complete, sign and/or endorse each Bill to be drawn
        by the Borrower under this document and to deliver the Bill in
        accordance with this document.

10.4    RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF BILLS

        Until it is required to be dealt with under clause 10.6 (Acceptance and
        discounting), each Bill prepared under this document must be kept in
        safe custody by the Participant signing it and must not be used or dealt
        with.

10.5    NOTIFICATION OF DISCOUNT RATE

        (a)     No later than 11.30am on each Drawdown Date, the Agent must
                determine and notify the Borrower and each Participant of the
                Discount Rate for the Funding Period of each Drawing to be
                provided on that Drawdown Date.

        (b)     Notification under this clause may be by telephone.

10.6    ACCEPTANCE AND DISCOUNTING

        Subject to this document, on the Drawdown Date on which a Drawing is to
        be provided under this document, each Participant must:

        (a)     pay any stamp duty or other taxes of a similar nature chargeable
                on the Bills prepared by it for the purpose of the Drawing;

        (b)     accept those Bills; and

        (c)     discount or arrange for the discounting of those Bills at the
                applicable Discount Rate and in accordance with its normal
                procedures and, subject to clause 10.10 (Netting off), pay the
                proceeds after deduction of:

                (i)     the commitment fee payable under clause 22.1 (Commitment
                        fee);

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                (ii)    any other amount then due by the Borrower to the
                        Participant or to the Agent on account of the
                        Participant under this document; and

                (iii)   any applicable stamp duty, other taxes of a similar
                        nature and financial institutions duty,

                to the Agent no later than 12.00 noon on the Drawdown Date. On
                receipt the Agent must promptly pay those proceeds in accordance
                with the Borrower's directions.

10.7    INDEMNITY AND CASH COVER

        (a)     The Borrower indemnifies each Participant against, and must
                immediately pay each Participant on demand the amount of, any
                liability the Participant incurs as acceptor of a Bill under
                this document other than liability arising from the gross
                negligence or wilful default of the Participant.

        (b)     Subject to clause 10.10 (Netting off), the Borrower must, by
                12.00 noon on each day on which a Bill falls due for payment,
                pay to the Agent (who will in turn account to the relevant
                Participant for) an amount equal to the face value of the Bill.

10.8    PARTICIPANT AS HOLDER

        As between each Participant and the Borrower, the Borrower is primarily
        liable in respect of any Bill accepted by the Participant. The liability
        of the Borrower with respect to a Bill will not be taken to have been
        discharged by reason of the Participant becoming the holder of the Bill
        on, before or after its maturity.

10.9    VARIATION OF PROCEDURES

        The Agent may (with the agreement of the Required Lenders) vary any of
        the times at or by which any thing is to be done under this clause to
        ensure the effective operation of the procedures contemplated by it.

10.10   NETTING OFF

        Only the net amount as between:

        (a)     the amount payable on any Rollover Date by the Borrower to the
                Agent on account of a Participant; and

        (b)     the amount which that Participant is obliged on the Rollover
                Date to make available on account of the Borrower,

        need be paid by the Borrower or made available by that Participant, as
        the case may be.

11.     FINAL REPAYMENT

        On the Termination Date, the Borrower must pay all of the Outstanding
        Bill Amount to the Agent on account of the Participants.

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12.     PREPAYMENTS

12.1    PREPAYMENT

        (a)     The Borrower may prepay all or part of the Outstanding Bill
                Amount if they give not less than 20 Business Days' notice
                ('PREPAYMENT NOTICE') to the Agent. A Prepayment Notice is
                irrevocable and the Borrower must make the prepayment in
                accordance with the notice.

        (b)     The Agent must promptly notify the Participants on receiving a
                Prepayment Notice.

12.2    PARTIAL PREPAYMENT

        If a prepayment is of part only of the Outstanding Bill Amount, then:

        (a)     unless the Agent otherwise agrees, the prepayment must be a
                minimum of $1,000,000 and an integral multiple of $100,000; and

        (b)     the Borrower must specify in the Prepayment Notice each Drawing
                to which the prepayment applies.

12.3    ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS DUE

        (a)     Clause 25 (General indemnity) applies to any prepayment of all
                or part of the Outstanding Bill Amount despite the fact that the
                Borrower is permitted to make it.

        (b)     Any interest or fees accrued on any amount repaid early under
                this document must be paid at the time of the prepayment.

12.4    ALLOCATION AMONG PARTICIPANTS

        A prepayment of all or part of a Drawing will be applied rateably in
        reduction of the respective participations of all of the Participants in
        that Drawing.

12.5    LIMITATION ON PREPAYMENTS

        The Borrower may not prepay all or part of the Outstanding Bill Amount
        except in accordance with this document.

13.     CANCELLATION/REDUCTION OF COMMITMENTS

13.1    TERMINATION DATE

        The Total Commitment will be automatically cancelled on the Termination
        Date.

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13.2    CANCELLATION BY BORROWER DURING COMMITMENT PERIOD

        (a)     During the Commitment Period the Borrower may cancel all or part
                of the undrawn Total Commitment by giving not less than 15
                Business Days' prior notice to the Agent. Any such notice is
                irrevocable.

        (b)     A partial cancellation must (unless the Agent otherwise agrees)
                be a minimum amount of $1,000,000 and an integral multiple of
                $100,000.

        (c)     The Agent must promptly notify each Participant of any notice
                received under this clause and the amount of the Participant's
                Commitment which is cancelled.

13.3    Cancellation of Commitments on cancellation of Total Commitment

        The Commitment of each Participant will be permanently and rateably
        reduced on and by the amount of any cancellation of the Total
        Commitment.

14.     PAYMENTS

14.1    PAYMENTS TO BE ON A BUSINESS DAY

        If a payment under a Financing Document falls due on a day that is not a
        Business Day, it must be paid on the preceding Business Day.

14.2    MANNER OF PAYMENT

        All payments to be made by the Borrower under a Financing Document must
        be made at or before 12.00 noon on the due date to an account specified
        by the Agent. Payments must be made in Dollars, in immediately available
        funds, and free of any set-off, counterclaim or, subject to clause 14.4
        (Deduction or withholding required), deduction or withholding.

14.3    AMOUNTS PAYABLE ON DEMAND

        Any amount which is not expressed by a Financing Document to be payable
        on a specified date is payable immediately on demand by the Agent.

14.4    DEDUCTION OR WITHHOLDING REQUIRED

        If the Borrower must deduct or withhold Taxes from a payment to a
        Financier, it must:

        (a)     make that deduction and/or withholding, pay to the appropriate
                Public Authority the full amount deducted and/or withheld as
                required by law and give the Financier a receipt for the
                payment; and

        (b)     increase its payment to the Financier to an amount which will
                result in the Financier receiving (after deduction or
                withholding of any Taxes in respect of the increased payment)
                the full amount which it would have received if no deduction or
                withholding had been required.

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14.5    GST

        The amounts set out in the Financing Documents have been calculated
        without regard to GST. If GST is or becomes payable in respect of any
        supply made by a Financier under or in connection with the Facilities or
        the Financing Documents, the payment for that supply shall be increased
        by the amount necessary so that that Financier actually receives what it
        would have been entitled to receive if there had not been GST in respect
        of that supply. The Borrower indemnifies each Financier against any Loss
        due to it failing to receive the amount of the increase in the payment.

14.6    DISTRIBUTION BY AGENT

        Subject to clause 32.12 (Suspense account), the Agent must promptly
        distribute amounts received on account of the Participants among the
        Participants according to their respective entitlements.

14.7    ANTICIPATORY PAYMENTS

        (a)     The Agent may assume that a party ('PAYER') due to make a
                payment ('ASSUMED PAYMENT') on account of another party
                ('RECIPIENT') has made or will make that payment when due unless
                the Payer notifies the Agent at least 1 Business Day before the
                due date that the Payer will not be making the payment.

        (b)     In reliance on that assumption, the Agent may make available to
                the Recipient on the due date an amount equal to the Assumed
                Payment.

        (c)     If the Payer does not in fact make the Assumed Payment, the
                Recipient must immediately repay the amount to the Agent on
                demand. The Payer remains liable to make the Assumed Payment
                but, until the Recipient repays the amount, the Payer's
                liability will be to the Agent in its own right.

        (d)     If the Payer is the Borrower, any interest on the amount of the
                Assumed Payment accruing before recovery will belong to the
                Agent.

        (e)     If the Payer is a Participant, the Participant must pay interest
                on the amount of the Assumed Payment at the rate determined by
                the Agent, in line with its usual practice, for advances of
                similar duration to financial institutions of the standing of
                the Participant.

14.8    INSUFFICIENT PAYMENTS

        If an amount received by the Agent is insufficient to discharge the
        obligations of the Borrower to the Financiers at that time, the Agent
        may apply that amount to reduce the Secured Money in the order, and to
        satisfy whatever part of the Secured Money, the Agent (acting on the
        instructions of the Required Lenders) sees fit. The application will
        override any appropriation made by the Borrower.

14.9    PAYMENTS AND RECEIPTS IN FOREIGN CURRENCY

        If for any reason a Financier receives or recovers any amount under or
        in relation to a Financing Document in a currency other than Dollars
        ('FOREIGN CURRENCY Amount'), the amount which the Financier will be
        taken to have received or recovered for the

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        purposes of the Financing Documents will be the Dollar amount to which
        the Financier could have converted the Foreign Currency Amount in
        accordance with its normal procedures, at the time of the receipt or
        recovery less the costs of the conversion.

15.     SHARING OF PAYMENTS

        If a Participant receives or recovers (whether by direct payment,
        set-off or otherwise) an amount in respect of any sum due under a
        Financing Document in respect of the Bill Facility otherwise than by
        distribution by the Agent:

        (a)     the Participant must immediately notify the Agent and (unless
                the Agent otherwise directs) pay that amount to the Agent;

        (b)     the receipt or recovery will be treated as a payment to the
                Participant on behalf of the Agent on account of the Secured
                Money and must be applied accordingly;

        (c)     the amount owed to the Participant is not reduced by the receipt
                or recovery except to the extent of any distribution
                subsequently received by the Participant under the Financing
                Documents;

        (d)     without prejudice to paragraph (c), the Borrower must
                immediately indemnify the Participant on demand against a
                payment made by the Participant under paragraph (a) to the
                extent that the Borrower's liability has been discharged by the
                receipt or recovery; and

        (e)     if all or part of the receipt or recovery must subsequently be
                refunded or restored by the Participant, each party to which any
                part of the receipt or recovery was distributed must repay to
                that Participant its proportionate share of the amount to be
                refunded or restored, together with an equivalent proportion of
                any interest which the Participant is obliged to pay on the
                amount to be refunded or restored.

16.     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

16.1    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

        The Borrower represents and warrants to each Financier, in respect of
        each Borrower Party (unless the context otherwise indicates) that:

        (a)     (REGISTRATION) it is properly registered and validly exists;

        (b)     (POWER) it has the power and the right to carry on its business,
                and to enter into and exercise its rights and perform its
                obligations under each Relevant Document to which it is a party;

        (c)     (CORPORATE AUTHORISATION) it has taken the necessary corporate
                action to authorise its entry into and performance of each
                Relevant Document to which it is party (as well as each
                transaction contemplated by each such Relevant Document);

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        (d)     (RELEVANT DOCUMENTS) each Relevant Document to which it is a
                party is (subject to its stamping and registration, where
                applicable) valid, binding and enforceable against it in
                accordance with its terms;

        (e)     (COLLATERAL SECURITIES) subject to payment of stamp duty and
                registration, each Collateral Security is an effective Security
                Interest having the priority contemplated in it;

        (f)     (CONFLICTS) its execution and performance of each Relevant
                Document to which it is a party does not and will not:

                (i)     conflict with or violate any law, judgment, ruling,
                        order, document or agreement that binds it (including
                        its constituent documents);

                (ii)    result in a Security Interest (other than under a
                        Collateral Security) being created on, or crystallising
                        over, any of its assets; or

                (iii)   result in a default under any agreement relating to any
                        of its Financial Indebtedness;

        (g)     (AUTHORISATIONS OBTAINED) each Authorisation which is:

                (i)     necessary for the execution, delivery or performance by
                        it, or the validity or enforceability, of the Relevant
                        Documents to which it is party;

                (ii)    necessary for the effectiveness as a Security Interest
                        (with the priority contemplated in it) of each
                        Collateral Security; or

                (iii)   material to the conduct by it of its business,

                has been obtained and is in full force and effect;

        (h)     (COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS) it has complied with all laws and
                Authorisations applicable to it or its business where failure to
                do so would have or be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (i)     (SOLVENCY) it is solvent and there are reasonable grounds to
                expect that, on execution of each Financing Document to which it
                is a party, it will continue to be able to pay all its debts as
                and when they become due and payable;

        (j)     (NO DEFAULT UNDER MATERIAL DOCUMENT) it is not in default of a
                material obligation under any Material Document or any document
                relating to its Financial Indebtedness and nothing has occurred
                which is or would (with the giving of notice or passage of time
                or both) constitute an event of default (however described)
                under any such document;

        (k)     (LITIGATION) (except as described in writing to the Agent and
                accepted in writing by the Agent acting on the instructions of
                the Required Lenders) no litigation or administrative,
                arbitration or other proceeding or action (including any action
                by a Public Authority) is current or pending or, to its
                knowledge, is likely or threatened which, if adversely
                determined, would have or be likely to have a Material Adverse
                Effect;

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        (l)     (INFORMATION ACCURATE) all information provided by it to any
                Financier or the Agent in connection with the Financing
                Documents and Material Documents is accurate in all material
                respects and not deficient, misleading or deceptive in any
                material respect (whether by its inclusion or by the omission of
                other information);

        (m)     (COPIES OF DOCUMENTS)

                (i)     all copies of documents provided by it to any Financier
                        or the Agent are true and complete and the original
                        documents are in full force and effect; and

                (ii)    the copies of the Material Documents provided to the
                        solicitors for the Agent contain all of the terms of the
                        agreements between the parties to those documents and
                        there are no other documents or arrangements in
                        existence in respect of those Material Documents that
                        have not been disclosed in writing to the Agent;

        (n)     (DISCLOSURE OF FACTS) all material facts or circumstances known
                to the Borrower and which under reasonable business practice may
                affect the decision of each Financier to enter into this
                transaction have been disclosed by the Borrower to the Agent;

        (o)     (OWNERSHIP OF ASSETS) subject to any trust which is expressly
                disclosed in the Financing Documents and to any Permitted
                Security Interest, it is the sole legal and beneficial owner of
                the Secured Property the subject of each Collateral Security
                given by it;

        (p)     (ASSETS FREE OF SECURITY INTERESTS) its assets are free of any
                Security Interest other than any Permitted Security Interest;

        (q)     (FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS) it has no Financial Indebtedness other
                than Permitted Financial Indebtedness;

        (r)     (NO EVENT OF DEFAULT) no Event of Default has occurred and is
                subsisting and no Potential Event of Default has occurred and is
                subsisting:

                (i)     at the date of this document; or

                (ii)    thereafter, which is not disclosed in writing to the
                        Agent.

        (s)     (ACCOUNTS) the most recent Accounts, except Accounts referred to
                in clause 17.2(c), of the Borrower provided to the Agent:

                (i)     give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of it
                        and of each of its Subsidiaries as at the date to which
                        the Accounts relate and the results of the operations of
                        it and of each of its Subsidiaries during the period
                        covered by the Accounts;

                (ii)    contain proper and adequate provisions for and fully
                        disclose all of the actual and contingent liabilities of
                        it and of each of its Subsidiaries as at the date to
                        which the Accounts relate; and

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                (iii)   were prepared in accordance with Accounting Standards,
                        except for any departures from those standards which are
                        disclosed in the Accounts;

        (t)     (NO CHANGE IN FINANCIAL POSITION) there has been no change in
                the state of affairs or operations of each Borrower Party since
                the date to which the Accounts referred to in paragraph (s)
                (Accounts) were prepared which would have or be likely to have a
                Material Adverse Effect;

        (u)     (OWN ENQUIRIES) it has relied on its own investigations and
                enquiries regarding the transactions contemplated by the
                Financing Documents and has not relied on any information,
                advice or opinion (including information, advice or opinions
                regarding interest rates, Derivative Transactions or exchange
                rates) given or offered by or on behalf of any Financier or the
                Agent even if in answer to any enquiry by or for it;

        (v)     (TAXATION) it has complied with all Tax laws in all
                jurisdictions in which it is subject to Taxes and has paid all
                Taxes due and payable by it, other than Contested Taxes the
                non-payment of which would not have or be likely to have a
                Material Adverse Effect;

        (w)     (INSURANCE) it has complied with its obligations in the
                Financing Documents to insure and maintain insurance;

        (x)     (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY) it owns, or has the right and licence to
                use, all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its
                business;

        (y)     (ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS):

                (i)     it has not incurred any Environmental Liability which it
                        has not disclosed in writing to the Agent which could
                        have a Material Adverse Effect; and

                (ii)    all Authorisations required under any Environmental Law
                        relating to the occupation, use and development of each
                        Property have been obtained, are in full force and
                        effect and have been and are being complied with where
                        non-compliance would have a Material Adverse Effect and
                        such occupation, use and development otherwise complies
                        with all Environmental Laws where non-compliance would
                        have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (z)     (CORPORATE BENEFIT) its entry into the transactions contemplated
                by the Relevant Documents is in its best interests and for its
                benefit;

        (aa)    (NO TRUSTEE) it is not a trustee of any trust other than as
                specified in any Financing Document;

        (bb)    (RELATED ENTITIES) it does not have any Related Entities, other
                than those previously notified by it in writing to the Agent;

        (cc)    (NO IMMUNITY) neither it nor any of its assets is immune from
                suit or execution; and

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        (dd)    (NATIVE TITLE) it is not:

                (i)     as at the date of this document, aware of any actual or
                        potential native title claim in relation to any
                        Property; or

                (ii)    thereafter, aware of any actual or potential native
                        title claim in relation to any Property which if it were
                        successful would have a Material Adverse Effect.

16.2    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REPEATED

        Each representation and warranty in this document:

        (a)     is repeated, with reference to the facts and circumstances at
                the time, on each day until the Secured Money has been finally
                paid in full; and

        (b)     applies in its current form when repeated, despite any contrary
                disclosure by a Borrower or any other person, unless the Agent
                (acting on the instructions of the Required Lenders) agrees to
                waive it.

17.     REPORTING OBLIGATIONS AND ACCESS

17.1    NOTICES TO THE AGENT

        The Borrower must notify the Agent, with reasonable details, as soon as
        it becomes aware of any one or more of the following in respect of each
        Borrower Party:

        (a)     (EVENT OF DEFAULT) an Event of Default or Potential Event of
                Default and (if applicable) the steps taken or proposed to be
                taken to remedy it;

        (b)     (SUBSIDIARY) the Borrower Party acquiring or intending to
                acquire a Subsidiary;

        (c)     (ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY) the acquisition by any Borrower
                Party of any interest in relation to real property (other than a
                Lease for a term (including options) of less than 3 years);

        (d)     (LITIGATION) any litigation or administrative, arbitration or
                other proceeding or action (including any action by a Public
                Authority) against any Borrower Party which is current or
                pending or, to its knowledge, likely or threatened which:

                (i)     if adversely determined, would have or be likely to have
                        a Material Adverse Effect; or

                (ii)    involves a claim or claims for an amount in excess of
                        $1,000,000 or its equivalent;

        (e)     (ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS) any breach or potential breach of any
                Environmental Law or of any complaint or the issuing of any
                proceedings or notice or requirements against or on any Borrower
                Party in respect of, or which may result in, any Environmental
                Liability or alleged contravention of any

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        Environmental Law which would have or be likely to have a Material
        Adverse Effect;

        (f)     (COMPULSORY ACQUISITION) any proposal by a Public Authority to
                compulsorily acquire assets of any Borrower Party the subject of
                a Collateral Security where the acquisition would have or be
                likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (g)     (MATERIAL DOCUMENTS) any:

                (i)     material notice given or received under;

                (ii)    material default or dispute under;

                (iii)   termination or rescission of; or

                (iv)    event or circumstance which entitles a party to
                        terminate or rescind,

                a Material Document;

        (h)     (PUBLIC AUTHORITIES) any material notice to or from, or material
                correspondence with, a Public Authority in relation to any
                Borrower Party or its assets the subject of a Collateral
                Security, including under any Environmental Law;

        (i)     (AUTHORISATIONS) any proposal by a Public Authority to revoke or
                materially amend any Authorisation:

                (i)     necessary for the execution, delivery, or performance by
                        any Borrower Party, or the validity or enforceability,
                        of a Relevant Document;

                (ii)    necessary for the effectiveness as a Security Interest
                        (with the priority contemplated in it) of each
                        Collateral Security; or

                (iii)   material to the conduct by any Borrower Party of its
                        business;

        (j)     (CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS) any change to any Borrower Party's
                constituent documents;

        (k)     (NATIVE TITLE) any native title claim being proposed or made in
                respect of any Property; or

        (l)     (MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT) any event or circumstance which has or
                is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

17.2    ACCOUNTS AND OTHER INFORMATION

        The Borrower must give the following to the Agent (with, in the case of
        the items referred to in paragraphs (a)-(e) and (g), sufficient copies
        for the Participants):

        (a)     (ANNUAL ACCOUNTS) the audited consolidated annual Accounts of it
                and of each of its Subsidiaries as soon as possible after its
                annual balance date (and, at the latest, 120 days after that
                date);

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        (b)     (QUARTERLY ACCOUNTS) the consolidated and unconsolidated
                quarterly Accounts of it and of each of its Subsidiaries as soon
                as possible but at the latest 60 days after the end of each of
                its first three fiscal quarters and 120 days after the end of
                its fourth fiscal quarter;

        (c)     (MONTHLY ACCOUNTS) the monthly consolidated and unconsolidated
                management Accounts of it and of each of its Subsidiaries
                including:

                (i)     balance sheet and profit and loss statements
                        incorporating a divisional break-up;

                (ii)    monthly cashflow statements and projections; and

                (iii)   a comparison of actual results with previous budget and
                        projections,

                in the form currently prepared by the Borrower;

        (d)     (OTHER FINANCIAL INFORMATION) whatever other financial
                information the Agent reasonably requires, within 75 days after
                the end of each month during the first 3 months after the date
                of this document and within 60 days after the end of each month
                thereafter;

        (e)     (FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS) before 1 November in each year beginning
                1 November, 2001, detailed projections setting out Penford
                Corporation's projected consolidated income and cashflow for the
                current fiscal year and for each fiscal year until 31 August
                2005 and a projected consolidated balance sheet as of the end of
                each such fiscal year for Penford Corporation together with a
                certificate from Penford Corporation's principal financial
                officer setting forth the assumptions on which such projections
                are based;

        (f)     (CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE) each certificate (where applicable)
                detailed in the US Credit Agreement;

        (g)     (REPORTS, CIRCULARS) promptly, copies of all material documents
                which each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries issues to its
                members, any stock exchange or its creditors generally as soon
                as they are issued;

        (h)     (AUTHORISED OFFICERS) promptly, notice of any change to its
                Authorised Officers (which notice must be signed by the
                secretary or a director of the Borrower and must contain a
                specimen signature of each new Authorised Officer) and, if
                requested by the Agent, evidence of the Authorised Officers'
                authority;

        (h)     (PROFORMA CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET) on or before 31 December
                2000, a proforma consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of
                the Group following the Purchase, reflecting purchase price
                accounting adjustments as of the date of the Purchase;

        (i)     (INSURANCE) on request, current certificates and other documents
                in respect of each of its and its Subsidiaries' insurance
                policies; and

        (j)     (OTHER INFORMATION) whatever other information the Agent
                reasonably requests about its or any of its Subsidiaries' state
                of affairs or the Secured Property.

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17.3    PREPARATION AND FORM OF ACCOUNTS

        All Accounts, except Accounts referred to in clause 17.2(c), given to
        the Agent must:

        (a)     be prepared and, if applicable, audited by a reputable and
                suitably qualified accountant (who must be acceptable to the
                Agent) in accordance with Accounting Standards and all
                applicable laws;

        (b)     be certified by 2 directors of each entity to which they relate
                as an accurate and complete statement of the financial position
                of the entity (except that, if the Accounts relate to more than
                one entity and the entities have a common parent or one entity
                is the parent of the other, it will suffice if the Accounts are
                certified by 2 directors of the parent); and

        (c)     at the time of delivery, give a true and fair view of the state
                of affairs of the entity or entities to which they relate or
                give an explanation of any divergence between the Accounts and a
                true and fair view, as at the date on which, and for the period
                in respect of which, the Accounts are prepared.

17.4    GIVING ACCESS TO RECORDS AND LAND

        The Borrower must in respect of each Borrower Party:

        (a)     ensure that its business, financial records and property are
                available for inspection upon reasonable notice at reasonable
                times by the Agent and persons acting on the Agent's behalf; and

        (b)     allow the Agent and persons acting on the Agent's behalf to
                inspect and to take copies of or extracts from its business and
                financial records and give reasonable assistance to them.

17.5    INVESTIGATING ACCOUNTANTS

        The Agent may at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default or
        Potential Event of Default appoint accountants ('INVESTIGATING
        ACCOUNTANTS') to investigate the affairs and financial position of the
        Borrower provided the Investigating Accountants agree with the Borrower
        to be bound by the same confidentiality requirements that apply under
        clause 30. The Borrower:

        (a)     unconditionally authorises the Investigating Accountants to take
                the action which is reasonably necessary or desirable for the
                investigation. This does not include the power to manage the
                Borrower's business;

        (b)     agrees to give the Investigating Accountants all reasonable
                assistance for that purpose; and

        (c)     unconditionally authorises the Investigating Accountants to
                disclose to the Agent and its advisers all information and
                documentation in connection with the investigation,

        and must ensure that each of its Subsidiaries does the same. The
        Borrower must pay the costs and expenses of the investigations
        immediately on demand by the Agent.

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18.     GENERAL AND FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS

18.1    POSITIVE OBLIGATIONS

        The Borrower must, and must ensure that each Borrower Party (unless the
        Agent, on the instructions of the Required Lenders, otherwise consents):

        (a)     (CARRY ON BUSINESS) carry on its business in the ordinary
                course;

        (b)     (AUTHORISATIONS) obtain, renew and maintain (and provide to the
                Agent as soon as practicable after reasonable request copies of)
                all Authorisations that are necessary or advisable for the
                proper and efficient conduct of its business where a failure to
                do so would have a Material Adverse Effect and for:

                (i)     the execution, delivery and performance by it, and the
                        validity and enforceability, of each Relevant Document;
                        and

                (ii)    the effectiveness as a Security Interest (with the
                        priority contemplated in it) of each Collateral
                        Security,

                to which it is a party;

        (c)     (MAINTAIN BOOKS) maintain proper and adequate books and records
                in accordance with Accounting Standards and the requirements of
                all laws;

        (d)     (MAINTAIN STANDING) maintain:

                (i)     its registration in the place of its registration as at
                        the date of this document; and

                (ii)    its good standing,

                and ensure that it remains entitled to carry on business and own
                property in all applicable jurisdictions;

        (e)     (MAINTAIN INSURANCE) comply with its obligations to insure and
                maintain insurance in the Financing Documents;

        (f)     (MAINTAIN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY) maintain, preserve and protect
                all Intellectual Property material to its business in accordance
                with prudent business practice;

        (g)     (MAINTAIN PHYSICAL ASSETS) maintain its physical assets useful
                or necessary to its business subject to a Collateral Security in
                a good state of repair, fair wear and tear excepted, and replace
                such assets whenever necessary for the proper and efficient
                conduct of its business;

        (h)     (SECURED PROPERTY):

                (i)     remedy any defect in its or the Agent's title to the
                        Secured Property; and

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                (ii)    protect and defend the Secured Property;

        (i)     (AVOID ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY) take whatever action the Agent
                (acting on the instructions of the Required Lenders) reasonably
                requires to avoid any Environmental Liability;

        (j)     (ACQUISITION OF SUBSIDIARY) if it creates or acquires a
                Subsidiary after the date of this document (with or without the
                Agent's consent):

                (i)     immediately cause the Subsidiary to execute (and do all
                        things necessary to give effect to) any Collateral
                        Security required by the Agent, including a Guarantee
                        and a Collateral Security over all of its assets; and

                (ii)    provide, in relation to the Subsidiary, any information
                        or document, including, but not limited to the items
                        referred to in Schedule 2, which the Agent reasonably
                        requests, to the Agent in form and substance acceptable
                        to the Agent;

        (k)     (PAY TAXES) pay when due all Taxes (other than Contested Taxes
                unless the failure to pay would have or be likely to have a
                Material Adverse Effect) assessed, levied or imposed on it or
                its assets;

        (l)     (EVENTS OF DEFAULT) as soon as practicable after request by the
                Agent, provide the Agent with a certificate signed by 2 of its
                directors certifying that to the best of their knowledge and
                belief no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has
                occurred and is subsisting;

        (m)     (MATERIAL DOCUMENTS):

                (i)     comply with the material terms of; and

                (ii)    take all reasonable action, and all action reasonably
                        required by the Agent, to enforce,

                each Material Document to which it is a party;

        (n)     (COMPLY WITH LAWS) comply with all material laws and
                Authorisations and with the mandatory requirements of any Public
                Authority in respect of the Secured Property;

        (o)     (RECTIFY PHYSICAL DEFECTS) immediately:

                (i)     rectify each material defect in the repair or condition
                        of the Secured Property reasonably required by the Agent
                        (acting on the instructions of the Required Lenders);
                        and

                (ii)    take any action reasonably required by the Agent (acting
                        on the instructions of the Required Lenders) to
                        implement or take account of the recommendations or
                        results of any environmental audit or site assessment
                        carried out in relation to the Secured Property;

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        (p)     (ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT) if the Agent (acting on the
                instructions of the Required Lenders) reasonably requests it,
                promptly give the Agent an environmental site assessment or
                environmental audit report on the matters the Agent specifies.
                The report must be prepared by an environmental consultant
                reasonably acceptable to the Agent and the Borrower must pay for
                the report; and

        (q)     (ASSIST WITH SYNDICATION) assist with the syndication of the
                Bill Facility and, if requested by the Agent to do so, provide
                or assist in the preparation of an information memorandum for
                provision to prospective participants.

18.2    NEGATIVE OBLIGATIONS

        The Borrower must not and must ensure that each of its Subsidiaries does
        not, without first obtaining the consent of the Agent (acting on the
        instructions of the Required Lenders):

        (a)     (NATURE OF BUSINESS) do anything to materially change the nature
                of its business;

        (b)     (SECURITY INTEREST)

                (i)     create or permit to exist a Security Interest, other
                        than a Permitted Security Interest, over any of its
                        assets or attempt or agree to do so; or

                (ii)    if the creation of a Security Interest cannot by law be
                        restricted, create such a Security Interest over any of
                        the Secured Property without using its best endeavours
                        to provide that the holder of the Security Interest
                        first enters into a deed of priority in form and
                        substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent (acting on
                        the instructions of the Required Lenders);

        (c)     (ACQUISITION SUBJECT TO SECURITY INTEREST) acquire an asset
                which is subject to a Security Interest or which becomes the
                subject of a Security Interest (other than a Collateral
                Security) on its acquisition;

        (d)     (LEASES) grant a Lease over any of its assets other than at
                arms' length and for market consideration except to a Borrower
                Party;

        (e)     (DISPOSALS OF ASSETS) dispose of an asset or attempt or agree to
                do so except:

                (i)     in the ordinary course of its ordinary business and on
                        arms' length terms;

                (ii)    where the asset is no longer required for its business
                        and the disposal is on arms' length terms;

                (iii)   to a Borrower Party which has given the Collateral
                        Security;

                (iv)    where the value of the asset is less than $1,000,000 or
                        its equivalent and the aggregate value of all assets so
                        disposed of by the Borrower Party in any 12 month period
                        in reliance on this exception is less than $2,000,000 or
                        its equivalent; or

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                (v)     under a Permitted Security Interest;

        (f)     (NO FURTHER SHARES) issue any further shares other than in the
                case of a Borrower Party which has given Collateral Security;

        (g)     (NO MERGER) merge or consolidate with another entity;

        (h)     (ARM'S LENGTH TRANSACTIONS) subject to any Financing Document,
                enter into any transaction other than on arm's length terms with
                any person other than a Borrower Party or Penford Corporation or
                Penford Products Co.;

        (i)     (TITLE RETENTION) acquire assets which would otherwise become
                Secured Property on title retention terms except in the ordinary
                course of its day-to-day trading;

        (j)     (FINANCIAL ACCOMMODATION) lend or provide financial
                accommodation to any person, except that:

                (i)     it may:

                        (A) subject to paragraph (n) (deposit), deposit money
                            with a bank, unless the bank is not a Financier and
                            the Borrower Party owes Financial Indebtedness to
                            the bank; or

                        (B) allow its customers to acquire goods or services on
                            extended terms,

                        in the ordinary course of its day-to-day trading; and

                (ii)    it may lend or provide financial accommodation to a
                        Borrower Party which has given Collateral Security;

        (k)     (GUARANTEES) give any Guarantee other than under the Financing
                Documents;

        (l)     (DEPOSIT) deposit money with a person if the money is not
                repayable until satisfaction of an obligation owed to the
                person;

        (m)     (PARTNERSHIP) enter into any partnership or joint venture;

        (n)     (SUBSIDIARY) after the date of this document, create or acquire
                any Subsidiary unless it complies with clause 18.1(j);

        (o)     (MATERIAL DOCUMENTS):

                (i)     (A) materially vary, amend or change or agree to any
                            material variation, amendment or change in (other
                            than an assignment or transfer by a sub-lessee to
                            another party of the same or better reputation and
                            credit standing);

                        (B) terminate or rescind; or

                        (C) waive any material requirement of,

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                        any Material Document; or

                (ii)    do or permit, or fail to do, any act which would render
                        any Material Document liable to forfeiture or
                        cancellation or to be otherwise prejudiced;

        (p)     (CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS) change its constituent documents in any
                way; or

        (q)     (FINANCIAL YEAR) change its financial year except to be
                consistent with Penford Corporation's financial year which ends
                on 31 August.

19.     EVENTS OF DEFAULT

19.1    EVENTS OF DEFAULT

        An Event of Default occurs if any one or more of the following occurs:

        (a)     (NON-PAYMENT) a Borrower fails to pay any of the Secured Money
                payable by it within 5 days after the due date for payment;

        (b)     (INCORRECT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS) a financial statement or
                certificate provided by a Borrower Party to the Agent or a
                Participant is untrue, incorrect or misleading in any material
                way;

        (c)     (OTHER OBLIGATION NOT COMPLIED WITH) subject to paragraphs (a)
                and (b), any Borrower Party fails to comply with any obligation
                under a Financing Document and, if in the opinion of the Agent
                the failure is capable of remedy, it continues unremedied for 15
                Business Days after the failure;

        (d)     (INCORRECT STATEMENT OR REPRESENTATION) a statement,
                representation or warranty made by or on behalf of any Borrower
                Party in a Financing Document, or in a document provided in
                connection with a Financing Document, is untrue, incorrect or
                misleading in a material respect when made or repeated;

        (e)     (CROSS DEFAULT - FINANCIAL INDEBTEDNESS) Financial Indebtedness
                of any Borrower Party:

                (i)     becomes due and payable, or capable of being declared
                        due and payable, before its due date; or

                (ii)    is not paid when due or within any applicable grace
                        period;

        (f)     (CROSS DEFAULT - FINANCING DOCUMENT) an event of default
                (however described) occurs under any Financing Document;

        (g)     (CROSS DEFAULT - MATERIAL DOCUMENT) if a Borrower Party which is
                a party to a Material Document fails to comply with any material
                obligation under it or an event of default by it (however
                described) after the expiry of any applicable grace period
                occurs under it which would have a Material Adverse Effect;

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        (h)     (CROSS DEFAULT - US CREDIT AGREEMENT) an 'Event of Default' (as
                defined in the US Credit Agreement);

        (i)     (CROSS DEFAULT - PENFORD DEBENTURE TRUST DEED) an 'Event of
                Default' (as defined in the Penford Debenture Trust Deed);

        (j)     (JUDGMENT) judgment is obtained against a Borrower Party for an
                amount which together with other outstanding judgments against
                the Borrower Party exceed $1,000,000 or its equivalent and which
                in each case have not been stayed within 10 Business Days of the
                date of the judgment;

        (k)     (SECURITY INTEREST) any Security Interest over an asset of a
                Borrower Party is enforced or becomes enforceable;

        (l)     (INSOLVENCY) a Borrower Party:

                (i)     is insolvent within the meaning of section 95A of the
                        Corporations Law;

                (ii)    is taken to have failed to have complied with a
                        statutory demand under section 459F of the Corporations
                        Law; or

                (iii)   must be presumed by a court to be insolvent under
                        section 459C of the Corporations Law;

        (m)     (GROUNDS FOR WINDING UP) a circumstance specified in section 461
                of the Corporations Law occurs with respect to any Borrower
                Party;

        (n)     (WINDING UP)

                (i)     an order is made for the Winding Up of any Borrower
                        Party;

                (ii)    proceedings are commenced or an application is made for
                        the Winding Up of any Borrower Party and not withdrawn
                        or dismissed within 10 Business Days; or

                (iii)   an effective resolution is passed or a meeting is
                        summoned or convened to consider a resolution for the
                        Winding Up of any Borrower Party,

                except with the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions
                of the Required Lenders);

        (o)     (EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATOR) an External Administrator is appointed
                to any Borrower Party or any of its assets or any step is taken
                to do so or any Borrower Party or Related Entity requests such
                appointment;

        (p)     (ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS) execution or distress takes place or
                is attempted or an order to execute a judgment (however
                described) is made against any Borrower Party or any of its
                assets;

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        (q)     (CREDITORS) any Borrower Party stops or suspends payment to
                creditors generally or enters into an arrangement, assignment or
                composition with or for the benefit of its creditors generally
                or any class of them or proposes to do so;

        (r)     (DEREGISTRATION) a step is taken under section 601AA, 601AB or
                601AC of the Corporations Law to cancel the registration of any
                Borrower Party;

        (s)     (ANALOGOUS EVENT) anything analogous or having a similar effect
                to an event listed in paragraphs (m) - (r) above occurs;

        (t)     (INVESTIGATION) a person is appointed under any legislation to
                investigate any part of the affairs of any Borrower Party and
                that investigation in the opinion of the Agent (acting on the
                instructions of the Required Lenders) would have or be likely to
                have a Material Adverse Effect;

        (u)     (BUSINESS STOPPED OR CHANGED) a Borrower Party stops or
                threatens to stop carrying on its business or a material part of
                it or substantially changes the nature of its business without
                the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the
                Required Lenders);

        (v)     (CAPITAL REDUCTION AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) a Borrower Party:

                (i)     takes action to reduce its share capital (other than by
                        redeeming redeemable preference shares) or to buy back
                        its shares; or

                (ii)    passes a resolution of the type referred to in section
                        254N(1) or 260B of the Corporations Law, or a meeting to
                        consider such a resolution is summoned or convened,

                without the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of
                the Required Lenders);

        (w)     (AUTHORISATION) any Authorisation which is:

                (i)     necessary for the execution, delivery or performance by
                        a Borrower Party, or the validity or enforceability, of
                        a Relevant Document;

                (ii)    material to the conduct by a Borrower Party of its
                        business; or

                (iii)   necessary for the effectiveness as a Security Interest
                        (with the priority contemplated in it) of each
                        Collateral Security,

                is not obtained or maintained on terms acceptable to the Agent
                (acting on the instructions of the Required Lenders) or is
                revoked without being replaced within 10 Business Days;

        (x)     (UNENFORCEABILITY):

                (i)     all or any material part of any Relevant Document is
                        terminated, void, avoided, illegal, invalid,
                        unenforceable or limited in its effect; or

                (ii)    any party has the right to terminate, rescind or avoid
                        all or part of any Relevant Document,

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                or any party other than a Financier or the Agent so alleges;

        (y)     (CHANGE OF CONTROL) there is any change in shareholding or
                change in control of the Borrower;

        (z)     (CHANGE IN CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS) any Borrower Party changes its
                constituent documents in a material respect without the consent
                of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Required
                Lenders);

        (aa)    (ACTION BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES OR BREACHES OF LAW OR OF
                AUTHORISATION)

                (i)     any Public Authority takes any action;

                (ii)    there is any claim or requirement of substantial
                        expenditure or alteration of activity under, or breach
                        of, any law; or

                (iii)   there is any breach of any Authorisation,

                which the Agent declares (acting on the instructions of the
                Required Lenders) would have or be likely to have a Material
                Adverse Effect or any circumstance arises which may give rise to
                any such action, claim, requirement or breach; or

        (bb)    (APPROPRIATION)

                (i)     all or a material part of the assets of a Borrower Party
                        are compulsorily acquired by a Public Authority or a
                        Public Authority orders the sale or divestiture of those
                        assets; or

                (ii)    a Public Authority gives notice to a Borrower Party to
                        do so; or

        (cc)    (MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT) an event or series of events (whether
                related or not) occurs which the Agent declares (acting on the
                instructions of the Required Lenders) would have or be likely to
                have a Material Adverse Effect; or

        (dd)    (LETTER OF CREDIT) if a replacement Letter of Credit is not
                issued prior to 5 Business Days before the expiry of the then
                current Letter of Credit.

19.2    EFFECT OF EVENT OF DEFAULT

        (a)     If an Event of Default occurs, the Agent (on the instructions of
                the Required Lenders) may by notice to the Borrower:

                (i)     declare that the Secured Money is immediately due and
                        payable;

                (ii)    cancel the whole or any part of the Total Commitment
                        with immediate effect; or

                (iii)   do both.

                The Agent may do any of the above even though Bills accepted and
                discounted under this document remain outstanding on that date.

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        (b)     On receipt of a notice under paragraph (a)(i), the Borrower must
                immediately pay the Secured Money (including the Outstanding
                Bill Amount) to the Agent.

20.     INCREASED COSTS

20.1    INCREASED COSTS

        If a Participant determines in good faith that, as a result of the
        introduction or commencement of, or an amendment to, or a change in or
        in the interpretation or administration by any Public Authority of:

        (a)     any law (including in relation to Tax), order, treaty or
                official policy, directive or request; or

        (b)     any prudential or other requirement or guideline of any central
                bank or other Public Authority,

        (each an 'INCREASED COSTS EVENT') there is any direct or indirect:

        (c)     increase in the cost to the Participant of providing, funding or
                maintaining financial accommodation or otherwise performing its
                obligations under any Financing Document; and/or

        (d)     reduction in the effective return to the Participant in
                connection with the Financing Documents,

        then the Participant must promptly notify the Agent, who must in turn
        notify the Borrower ('INCREASED COSTS NOTICE'), and the Borrower must
        within 15 days pay to the Agent (on account of the Participant) on
        demand from time to time any additional amounts which the Participant
        certifies are necessary to compensate the Participant for the increased
        cost or reduction in return. The notification by the Participant must
        state in reasonable detail the reasons for the Increased Costs Event and
        the additional amount required to compensate the Participant.

        This clause applies to an Increased Costs Event even if it does not have
        the force of law provided that compliance with its subject matter is
        customary practice for responsible bankers or financial institutions in
        the applicable country.

20.2    METHOD OF CALCULATION

        In determining amounts payable under this clause, a Participant may use
        averaging and attribution methods commonly used by the Participant or
        any other reasonable averaging or attribution method.

21.     ILLEGALITY

        If any introduction of or change in a law, regulation or an official
        directive or request which has the force of law or compliance with which
        is in accordance with the practice of responsible bankers or a change in
        its interpretation or administration after the date of this document
        makes it unlawful or impossible for a Participant to procure, fund,

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        provide or maintain funding or otherwise observe its obligations under
        the Financing Documents:

        (a)     the Participant must use reasonable endeavours to provide its
                funding by some alternative means (including transferring its
                rights and obligations to another financial institution
                acceptable to the Borrower); and

        (b)     if the Participant advises the Agent that no alternative means
                are available, the Agent must use reasonable endeavours to
                arrange a transfer of the relevant Participant's rights and
                obligations in accordance with the requirements of the
                Intercreditor Agreement (either to another Participant or
                another transferee); and

        (c)     if a transfer cannot be arranged within 20 Business Days, the
                relevant Participant may, by notice to the Borrower require that
                the Borrower prepay (on the last day before the illegality or
                impossibility arises or the Business Day following 10 Business
                Days after delivery of the notice, whichever is the later), the
                Participant's participation in the Outstanding Bill Amount.

22.     FEES

22.1    COMMITMENT FEE

        The Borrowers must pay to the Agent a commitment fee determined in
        accordance with Schedule 7 on the average daily balance of the unused
        portion of each Participant's Commitment and of the Overdraft Facility.
        The fee is payable quarterly in arrears on the last days of February,
        May, August and November and on the Termination Date.

22.2    ROLLOVER FEE

        The Borrower must pay to the Agent on account of the Participants a
        rollover fee of $20 for each Drawing which is rolled over pursuant to a
        Rollover Notice.

22.3    FEES NON-REFUNDABLE

        All fees payable under this document are non-refundable.

23.     COSTS AND EXPENSES

        Subject to agreement between the parties, the Borrower must immediately
        pay on demand all costs and expenses of each Financier, the Agent, a
        Receiver and an Attorney relating to or in connection with:

        (a)     the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery, registration
                and completion of, payment of Taxes on, and drawdown of amounts
                under, any Financing Document;

        (b)     any variation or discharge of any Financing Document;

        (c)     the exercise, enforcement, protection or waiver, or attempted
                exercise, enforcement or protection, of any Power;

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        (d)     obtaining or receiving payment of any of the Secured Money and
                its distribution;

        (e)     an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default;

        (f)     the giving by it of a consent or approval in connection with the
                Financing Documents;

        (g)     any enquiry by any Public Authority concerning a Borrower Party,
                the use of the Facilities or the involvement of the Financier in
                the Financing Documents;

        (h)     maintaining, preserving or protecting the Secured Property;

        (i)     surveying, valuing, inspecting or reporting on the Secured
                Property; and

        (j)     obtaining advice from a professional person or consultant about
                any matter of concern to the Financier, the Agent, a Receiver or
                an Attorney in connection with a Financing Document; and

        including any legal costs and expenses (on a full indemnity basis), any
        professional consultant's fees and the costs (calculated on a time
        employed basis) of in-house legal counsel.

        All costs and expenses under paragraphs (a), (b), (d), (f), (g), (h),
        (i) and (j) will be reasonable unless paragraphs (c) or (e) also apply.
        Nothing in this clause shall make the Issuer liable to pay any costs or
        expenses to the extent that such costs and expenses are recoverable by
        the claimant or its representative as an input credit under GST Law.

24.     TAXES

24.1    BORROWER TO PAY TAXES

        The Borrower must pay, or immediately on demand reimburse each
        Financier, for, all Taxes which may be payable or determined to be
        payable by that Financier and which are paid in connection with any
        Financing Document or a payment, receipt, supply of goods or services or
        other transaction contemplated by or carried out under or pursuant to
        any Financing Document, including Taxes passed onto that Financier by
        another financial institution or supplier of goods and services.

24.2    FINES AND PENALTIES

        The Borrower must pay all fines and penalties for late payment or
        non-payment of the Taxes referred to in clause 24.1 (Borrower to pay
        Taxes) except where the Borrower places the Agent in cleared funds to
        make the payment not less than 5 Business Days prior to the due date and
        the relevant Financier fails to make the payment.

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25.     GENERAL INDEMNITY

        The Borrower must immediately indemnify each Financier on demand against
        any Loss by the Financier (and, in the case of paragraph (g) below, any
        of its officers) in respect of any of the following:

        (a)     a Drawing required by a Drawdown Notice or a Rollover Notice not
                being made for any reason including any failure by the Borrower
                to fulfil any condition precedent contained in this document,
                but excluding any default by the Financier;

        (b)     the occurrence of any Potential Event of Default or Event of
                Default;

        (c)     the exercise or attempted exercise by the Financier of any
                Power;

        (d)     any prepayment of all or part of a Drawing;

        (e)     any payment required under a Financing Document not being made
                on its due date;

        (f)     any Environmental Liability;

        (g)     the Financier acting in good faith on any notice or
                communication from, or genuinely believed to be from, a Borrower
                Party; and

        (h)     reliance by the Financier on information supplied by or on
                behalf of a Borrower Party which proves to be a
                misrepresentation or to be misleading or deceptive,

        including:

        (i)     all reasonable legal costs and expenses in connection with the
                above on a full indemnity basis; and

        (j)     any Loss (including loss of profit) by the Financier in
                terminating, reversing or varying any agreement (including a
                Derivative Transaction), in repaying amounts obtained by the
                Financier to fund a Facility or in re-deploying or re-investing
                any funds held or contracted for,

        other than any Loss arising from the gross negligence or fraud of the
        Agent or a Participant.

26.     DEFAULT INTEREST

26.1    DEFAULT INTEREST

        (a)     The Borrower must immediately on demand pay to the Agent
                interest on any of the Secured Money which is due and payable by
                them and not paid. The interest is to be paid to the Agent on
                account of the party to which the money is owed.

        (b)     Interest payable under paragraph (a) is calculated:

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                (i)     up to the date of actual payment from and including the
                        due date or, in the case of an amount payable by way of
                        reimbursement or indemnity, the date of disbursement or
                        Loss, if earlier ('CALCULATION DATE'); and

                (ii)    at the rate ('DEFAULT RATE') determined by the Agent as
                        at the Calculation Date and then at monthly intervals,
                        as the higher of:

                        (A)     if the Borrower Party's liability is the subject
                                of a judgment or order, the rate payable under
                                that judgment or order; and

                        (B)     the sum of the Applicable Margin, the Bank Bill
                                Rate for Bills having a term of 1 month, and 2%
                                per annum.

26.2    INTEREST FOLLOWING JUDGMENT

        If a Borrower's liability under a Financing Document is the subject of a
        judgment or order, the obligation to pay interest under this clause is
        an obligation separate from the judgment or order and will subsist
        despite the making of the judgment or order.

26.3    CAPITALISATION

        Interest payable under this clause that has not been paid may be
        capitalised by the Agent at intervals of not less than 1 month as
        determined by the Agent from time to time. Capitalised interest will
        itself bear interest at the Default Rate from the date of capitalisation
        up to and including the date of actual payment.

27.     AGENT

        (a)     The Intercreditor Agreement sets forth certain provisions with
                respect to the appointment and duties of the Agent and the
                Agent's relationship with the Participants.

        (b)     The Participants may, with the agreement of the Required
                Lenders, by notice in writing given by each Participant remove
                the Agent and appoint another person as Agent. Such appointment
                shall be effective from the time the outgoing Agent receives
                such notice.

28.     ASSIGNMENT AND SUBSTITUTION

28.1    BY BORROWER

        The Borrower may not assign or otherwise deal with their rights under
        this document without the consent of the Agent (acting on the
        instructions of the Required Lenders).

28.2    BY PARTICIPANTS

        A Participant may assign or otherwise deal with its rights and benefits
        under the Financing Documents:

        (a)     only pursuant to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement; and

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        (b)     if it notifies the Borrower and the Agent;

        (c)     if all necessary prior Authorisations are obtained; and

        (d)     if in the case of a transfer of obligations:

                (i)     the transfer is effected by a substitution in accordance
                        with this document; and

                (ii)    if the substitution relates to part only of a
                        Participant's participation in the Bill Facility, it
                        must (whether alone or combined with other substitutions
                        effected under this clause at or about the same time)
                        result in both the substituting Participant and the
                        incoming Participant having a Commitment which is not
                        less than $5,000,000 and an integral multiple of
                        $1,000,000; and

                (iii)   the Borrower has consented to the substitution (which
                        consent will not be unreasonably withheld and will be
                        taken to have been given if no response is received
                        within 15 Business Days of request for the consent).

28.3    SUBSTITUTION

        (a)     A Participant may only substitute another financial institution
                for its participation in the Bill Facility in accordance with
                the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.

        (b)     If a Participant wishes to substitute another financial
                institution for all or part of its participation in the Bill
                Facility, it and the proposed substitute must execute and
                deliver to the Agent 5 counterparts of a Substitution
                Certificate.

        (c)     Subject to paragraph (d), on receipt of the Substitution
                Certificate, the Agent must (if it is satisfied that the
                substitution complies with this clause 28) promptly:

                (i)     notify the Borrower and the other Participants;

                (ii)    countersign in the place of delivery of the certificate
                        the counterparts on behalf of all other parties to this
                        document;

                (iii)   enter the substitution in a register kept by it (which
                        will be conclusive evidence of the fact of the
                        substitution); and

                (iv)    retain one counterpart and deliver the others to the
                        substituting Participant, the incoming Participant and
                        the Borrower.

        (d)     Each party to this document for valuable consideration
                irrevocably authorises each of the Agent and its Authorised
                Officers separately to execute each Substitution Certificate on
                its behalf.

        (e)     Unless the Agent otherwise agrees, no substitution may be made
                while a Drawdown Notice or Rollover Notice is current.

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28.4    TRANSFEROR RELEASED FROM OBLIGATIONS

        The Participant will be released from any obligations transferred by it
        under clause 28.2 (By Participants) on the transfer taking effect.

28.5    SUB-PARTICIPATION, SECURITISATION AND CREDIT DERIVATIVE PERMITTED

        Nothing in this clause 28 prevents:

        (a)     a Participant granting by way of sub-participation (being the
                entry by the Participant into contractual relations with a
                person in relation to the Financing Documents without conferring
                any rights under the Financing Documents) of all or part of the
                Participant's rights under the Financing Documents; or

        (b)     a Participant transferring all or part of its rights under a
                Financing Document (by way of an equitable assignment) to a
                securitisation vehicle established by the Participant provided
                the Participant remains as the financier on record and the
                Borrower is notified of the securitisation; or

        (c)     a Participant entering into a credit derivative in relation to
                its participation in the Bill Facility.

28.6    DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

        Subject to clause 30 (Confidentiality), a Participant and the Agent may
        disclose to the Participant's potential assignee or transferee, or to
        any person proposing to enter into contractual arrangements (including
        sub-participations) with that Participant in relation to the Financing
        Documents, any information about the Borrower as the Participant or the
        Agent wishes.

28.7    CHANGE OF FUNDING OFFICE

        A Participant may at any time change its Funding Office by notifying the
        Agent and the Borrower of the address and facsimile number of its new
        Funding Office.

28.8    ASSIGNMENT OF OVERDRAFT FACILITY

        ANZ may only assign or otherwise deal with its rights and benefits under
        the Overdraft Facility in accordance with the provisions of the
        Intercreditor Agreement.

29.     NOTICES

29.1    HOW GIVEN

        A notice, request, demand, approval, consent or other communication
        ('NOTICE') given by a party in connection with a Financing Document:

        (a)     must be given by an Authorised Officer of the party;

        (b)     must be in writing and in English; and

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        (c)     must be left at the address of the addressee, or sent by prepaid
                ordinary post (airmail if posted to or from a place outside
                Australia) to the address of the addressee or sent by facsimile
                to the facsimile number of the addressee at:

                (i)     in the case of the Borrower:

                        Address: 170 Epping Road, Lane Cove, NSW 2066
                        Attention: Frank Ianns / Keith Fujinaga
                        Facsimile: (02) 9418 7830;

                (ii)    in the case of the Agent:

                        Address: Level 13, 20 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000
                        Attention: Ms Michelle Burke
                        Facsimile: (02) 9227 1334;

                (iii)   in the case of the Required Lenders, to the addresses or
                        facsimile numbers specified in Schedule 1 of the US
                        Credit Agreement; and

                (iv)    in the case of a Participant, to its Funding Office
                        address or facsimile number as specified in column 2 of
                        Schedule 1 or in a Substitution Certificate,

                or if the addressee notifies another address or facsimile
                number, then to that address or facsimile number.

29.2    EFFECT

        Unless a later time is specified in it, a Notice takes effect from the
        time it is received.

29.3    DEEMED RECEIPT

        A Notice is taken to be received:

        (a)     in the case of a posted Notice, on the third Business Day after
                posting for domestic mail and seventh Business Day after posting
                for international mail; and

        (b)     in the case of facsimile, on production of a transmission report
                by the machine from which the facsimile was sent which indicates
                that the facsimile was sent in its entirety to the facsimile
                number of the recipient,

        but if the delivery or receipt is on a day which is not a business day
        in the place of delivery or receipt or is after 4.00pm (addressee's
        time), it is taken to be received at the commencement of business on the
        next day which is a business day in that place.

29.4    NOTICE PROVISIONS IN OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS

        This clause does not limit any provision for the giving of Notices
        contained in any other Financing Document.

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30.     CONFIDENTIALITY

        Confidential information provided to a Financier by the Borrower or to
        the Borrower by a Financier may not be disclosed to any person except:

        (a)     with the prior consent of the party providing the information;

        (b)     if required by law or any Public Authority or pursuant to any
                administrative guideline or policy (even if it does not have the
                force of law) which the person disclosing the information
                customarily complies with;

        (c)     in connection with any action contemplated or legal proceedings
                taken relating to any Financing Document;

        (d)     if the information is generally and publicly available;

        (e)     to the auditors, legal advisers or other consultants in
                confidence of a Financier or the Borrower;

        (f)     to a potential substitute Participant or sub-participant or to
                any other person who is considering entering into contractual
                relations with a Financier or Receiver in connection with the
                Financing Documents subject to that person undertaking in
                writing to observe this clause and the Agent giving prior notice
                to the Borrower; or

        (g)     if permitted under a Financing Document.

31.     PRESERVING THE FINANCIERS' POWERS

31.1    PRESERVATION

        (a)     The fact that a Financier exercises, does not exercise, or
                delays the exercise of, any Power does not affect, or constitute
                a representation in relation to, the Power or any other Power.

        (b)     Without limiting paragraph (a), the fact that a Financier
                exercises a Power does not prevent the Financier from exercising
                that Power again.

        (c)     Unless expressly provided in a Financing Document, no Power nor
                any Financing Document merges in, adversely affects or is
                adversely affected by any other Power or Financing Document or
                any Security Interest, judgment or remedy which a Financier (or
                anyone claiming through it) may have or obtain.

31.2    NO OBLIGATION TO EXERCISE RIGHTS OR GIVE CONSENT

        Each Financier may:

        (a)     exercise or not exercise any Power;

        (b)     give or not give its consent; and

        (c)     make or not make a decision,

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        under a Financing Document in its absolute discretion unless the
        Financing Document expressly provides otherwise. A consent given by a
        Financier subject to conditions does not take effect until the
        conditions are complied with to the satisfaction of the Financier.

31.3    POWERS

        (a)     The Powers provided by the Financing Documents are cumulative
                and not exclusive of any other rights, powers, discretions or
                remedies provided by law.

        (b)     Where a Power under the Financing Documents is inconsistent with
                a Power at law, the Financing Documents prevail to the extent
                permitted by law. A Power at law is not inconsistent with the
                Financing Documents merely because it is more extensive than a
                similar Power in the Financing Documents or because there is no
                similar Power in the Financing Documents.

31.4    CHOICE OF SECURITIES AND GUARANTEES

        No Financier need resort to any Security Interest, Guarantee or any
        other Power before resorting to any other of them.

31.5    INDEMNITIES GENERALLY

        (a)     Each indemnity in the Financing Documents:

                (i)     is absolute and unconditional;

                (ii)    is a continuing obligation despite any settlement of
                        account or the occurrence of any other thing;

                (iii)   must be discharged without set-off, deduction,
                        abatement, counterclaim, suspension or deferment;

                (iv)    constitutes a separate and independent obligation of the
                        party giving the indemnity from its other obligations
                        under the Financing Documents; and

                (v)     survives termination of any Financing Document.

        (b)     It is not necessary for a Financier to incur an expense or make
                a payment before enforcing a right of indemnity conferred by a
                Financing Document.

31.6    CONSENT AND WAIVERS

        A consent or waiver by any Financier in relation to the Financing
        Documents is effective only if in writing.

31.7    AVOIDANCE OF TRANSACTION

        If any payment or other transaction relating to the Secured Money is
        void, voidable, unenforceable or defective or is claimed to be so (each
        an 'AVOIDANCE OF PAYMENT') and that claim is upheld or settled then:

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        (a)     the liability of the Borrower under each Financing Document and
                each Power will be what it would have been but for the Avoidance
                of Payment; and

        (b)     the Borrower must immediately execute all documents and do all
                other things necessary or required by the Agent to restore each
                Financier to the position it was in immediately before the
                Avoidance of Payment (including reinstating any Financing
                Document),

        even if a Financier knew or ought to have known that the payment or
        transaction was void, voidable, unenforceable or defective.

31.8    MORATORIUM LEGISLATION

        A moratorium does not apply to a Financing Document or the recovery of
        the Secured Money unless:

        (a)     the Agent agrees in writing that it does; or

        (b)     it cannot be excluded by law.

32.     OTHER PROVISIONS

32.1    NOTIFICATION FROM BORROWER

        If the Borrower is required under a Financing Document to notify a
        Financier about anything, it must do so in writing.

32.2    FINANCIERS MAY SET OFF

        Without any demand or prior notice, a Financier may, if an Event of
        Default is subsisting, set off and apply indebtedness it owes to the
        Borrower (whatever the currency) against any money owing to it by the
        Borrower under any Financing Document:

        (a)     whether the amount owed by the Financier or the Borrower is owed
                either alone or with any other person; and

        (b)     whether or not the amount owed by the Financier or the Borrower
                is immediately payable.

        The Borrower irrevocably authorises each Financier to do anything
        necessary (including to sign any document and effect appropriate
        currency exchanges) for that purpose.

        If a Financier exercises any right of set-off, it will thereafter give
        notice of such exercise to the Borrower.

        If a Financier exercises a right of set off, such Financier ('PURCHASING
        FINANCIER) shall immediately purchase from the other Financiers
        sufficient participations in the Outstanding Bill Amount to cause the
        Purchasing Financier's interest in the Outstanding Bill Amount to be the
        same as it was before such set off was exercised provided, however, that
        if any portion of such set off amount is later recovered from the

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        Purchasing Financier, the purchase of the participation shall be
        rescinded and each other Financier shall repay to the Purchasing
        Financier:

        (a)     the purchase price to the extent of such recovery; and

        (b)     an amount equal to such other Financier's rateable share
                (according to the proportion of (A) the amount of such other
                Financier's required repayment to (B) the total amount so
                recovered from the Purchasing Financier) of any interest or
                other amount paid or payable by the Purchasing Financier in
                respect of the total amount so recovered.

        The Borrower agrees that any Purchasing Financier may, to the fullest
        extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of set off against the
        Borrower.

32.3    BORROWER MAY NOT SET OFF

        The Borrower may not (either directly or indirectly) claim, exercise or
        attempt to exercise a right of set-off or counterclaim against a
        Financier (whether the right is the Borrower's or any other person's) or
        any other right which might have the effect of reducing the Secured
        Money.

32.4    NOTICES OR DEMANDS AS EVIDENCE

        A notice or certificate from or demand by the Agent stating:

        (a)     that a specified sum of money is owing or payable under a
                Financing Document;

        (b)     that an Event of Default has occurred; or

        (c)     any other fact or determination relevant to the rights or
                obligations of a Financier or a Borrower Party under a Financing
                Document,

        is taken to be correct unless the contrary is proved.

32.5    SEVERABILITY

        (a)     A construction of a Financing Document that results in all
                provisions being enforceable is to be preferred to a
                construction that does not.

        (b)     If, despite the application of paragraph (a), a provision of a
                Financing Document is illegal or unenforceable:

                (i)     and it would be legal, enforceable and not have a
                        contrary meaning if words were omitted, then those words
                        are omitted; and

                (ii)    in any other case, the whole provision is severed,

                and the remainder of the Financing Document continues in force.
                If the provision subsequently becomes legal and enforceable, the
                provision will be reinstated.

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32.6    ENTIRE AGREEMENT

        The Financing Documents contain all the terms on which the Facilities
        are or will be provided and supersede all prior communications.

32.7    VARIATION OF AGREEMENT

        A variation of a Financing Document must be in writing and signed by or
        on behalf of each party to it.

32.8    AUTHORISED OFFICERS AND COMMUNICATIONS

        The Borrower irrevocably authorises each Financier to rely on:

        (a)     a certificate by any person purporting to be a director or
                secretary of the Borrower as to the identity and signatures of
                its Authorised Officers. The Borrower warrants that those
                persons have been authorised to give notices and communications
                under or in connection with the Financing Documents; and

        (b)     any notice or other document contemplated by any Financing
                Document which bears the purported signature (whether given by
                facsimile or otherwise) of an Authorised Officer of the
                Borrower.

32.9    COMMUNICATIONS AND PAYMENTS THROUGH AGENT

        Unless otherwise expressly provided in a Financing Document, all
        communications between the Borrower and a Participant concerning, and
        all payments under, the Financing Documents are to be with or through
        the Agent.

32.10   CONFLICT

        If the terms of this document conflict with another Financing Document,
        the terms of this document prevail.

32.11   TERM OF OBLIGATIONS

        Each obligation of the Borrower in the Financing Documents continues
        from the date of the relevant document until the Secured Money is fully
        and finally repaid.

32.12   SUSPENSE ACCOUNT

        (a)     The Agent may credit money received in or towards satisfaction
                of the Secured Money (including dividends received in any
                Insolvency) to a suspense account. The Agent may keep the money
                in that account for as long as, and at whatever interest rate,
                the Agent thinks fit. The Agent may apply the money (including
                interest) to reduce the Secured Money whenever it thinks fit.

        (b)     If the Secured Money has been fully and finally paid or
                discharged and the Agent is satisfied that such payment or
                discharge is not liable to be set aside, avoided or reversed,
                then the balance standing to the credit of the suspense account
                and any accrued interest will be paid to or for the account of
                the Borrower and no Financier will have any further liability in
                relation to it.

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32.13   GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS

        (a)     This document is governed by the laws of New South Wales.

        (b)     Each party irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the
                non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.
                Each party waives any right it has to object to an action being
                brought in those courts, including by claiming that the action
                has been brought in an inconvenient forum or that those courts
                do not have jurisdiction.

        (c)     Without preventing any other mode of service, any document in an
                action or process may be served on any party by being delivered
                to or left for that party at its address for service of notices
                under this document.

32.14   APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY

        The Borrower for valuable consideration irrevocably appoints the Agent
        and each Authorised Officer of the Agent separately as its attorney to
        do any one or more of the following on the Borrower's behalf and in the
        name of the Borrower or the attorney on the occurrence of an Event of
        Default:

        (a)     anything which the Borrower must do under a Financing Document
                or under law in connection with a Financing Document;

        (b)     anything which, in the opinion of the attorney, gives effect to
                a Power or its exercise;

        (c)     anything which the attorney considers necessary or expedient for
                giving effect to or perfecting any Financing Document; and

        (d)     prove in the Insolvency of any Borrower Party,

        including executing any documents, and the Borrower agrees to ratify
        anything done by an attorney under this appointment.

32.15   ATTORNEYS APPOINTED UNDER THIS DOCUMENT - GENERAL PROVISIONS

        (a)     An Attorney may delegate its powers (including the power to
                delegate) to any person for any period and may revoke the
                delegation.

        (b)     Each appointment of attorney under this document by a Borrower
                is made to secure the performance by the Borrower of the
                Borrower's obligations under each Financing Document to which it
                is party.

32.16   ATTORNEYS

        Each attorney signing this document under a power of attorney certifies,
        by the attorney's signature, that the attorney has no notice of the
        revocation of the power of attorney.

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32.17   COUNTERPARTS

        This document may be executed in any number of counterparts.

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                           SCHEDULE 1 - PARTICIPANTS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
NAME OF PARTICIPANT                  FUNDING OFFICE                     COMMITMENT
-------------------                  --------------                     ----------
<S>                                  <C>                                <C>
Australia and New Zealand Banking    Level 13, 20 Martin Place,         $19,193,857 as
Group Limited                        Sydney, NSW 2000                   adjusted from time to
                                                                        time pursuant to the
                                     Facsimile: (02) 9227 1334          Intercreditor
                                     Attention: Ms Michelle Burke       Agreement
</TABLE>

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               SCHEDULE 2 - CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO FIRST DRAWING

                               (CLAUSE 6.1(a)(i))

The following is the list of items referred to in clause 6.1:

(a)     (VERIFICATION CERTIFICATES) a verification certificate from each
        Borrower Party in the form of Schedule 6 and attaching the documents
        referred to in the certificate, duly completed and dated not earlier
        than 2 Business Days prior to the first Drawdown Date;

(b)     (FINANCING DOCUMENTS) each Financing Document, properly executed and, if
        applicable, in registrable form together with, if applicable:

        (i)     all things (including documents) necessary to pay any Taxes on
                and register the Financing Document; and

        (ii)    sufficient same day funds to enable the payment of any Taxes
                chargeable on it;

(c)     (MATERIAL DOCUMENTS) a certified copy of each Material Document properly
        executed, registered and having had all Taxes paid on it (as
        applicable);

(d)     (DOCUMENTS OF TITLE) all title deeds relating to real property owned by
        each Borrower Party;

(e)     (INSURANCE) evidence that all insurance required by the Financing
        Documents is in place;

(f)     (SEARCHES AND ENQUIRIES) the results of all searches and enquires
        required by the Agent with respect to the Borrower and the Secured
        Property;

(g)     (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) evidence satisfactory to the Agent that all
        conditions and requirements under section 260B of the Corporations Law
        have been complied with;

(h)     (FIRB) certified copies of the application to and approval from the
        Australian Treasurer in relation to the acquisition by Penford Holdings
        of the Borrower;

(i)     (LETTER OF CREDIT) the Letter of Credit;

(j)     (LEGAL OPINION) a legal opinion issued by Baker & McKenzie in relation
        to the enforceability of the Financing Documents governed by Australian
        law;

(k)     (LEGAL OPINION) a legal opinion issued by KPMG Legal New Zealand in
        relation to the enforceability of the Financing Documents governed by
        New Zealand law; and

(l)     (INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT) the Intercreditor Agreement.

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                          SCHEDULE 3 - DRAWDOWN NOTICE

                                  (CLAUSE 7.1)

                                                                  Date:  [     ]

To:     Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
        Level 9
        20 Martin Place
        Sydney, NSW 2000

        Attention:   Ms Michelle Burke

SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT DATED [     ] 2000 ('FACILITY AGREEMENT')

1.      We give you irrevocable notice that we wish to draw an amount of $[ ] in
        aggregate on [ ] 20[ ] ('DRAWDOWN DATE').

2.      Particulars of each Drawing required are as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         FACE VALUE                           FUNDING PERIOD
         ----------                           --------------
<S>                                           <C>
         [   ]                                [   ]
</TABLE>

3.      We request that the proceeds of each Drawing be remitted to account
        number [ ] at [ ] [INSERT ALTERNATIVE INSTRUCTIONS, IF REQUIRED].

4.      We represent and warrant that:

        (a)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] the representations and
                warranties in the Facility Agreement are true as though they had
                been made at the date of this Drawdown Notice and the Drawdown
                Date specified above in respect of the facts and circumstances
                then subsisting;

        (b)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] no Event of Default or
                Potential Event of Default is subsisting or will result from the
                provision of the Drawing/s; [and]

        (c)     details of the exceptions to paragraphs (a) and (b) are as
                follows: [ ], and we [have taken][propose] the following
                remedial action: [ ].

        We acknowledge that inclusion of a statement under paragraph (c) will
        not prejudice the rights of the Financiers under the Facility Agreement,
        including under clauses 6.2 (Conditions precedent to all Drawings) and
        19 (Events of Default), or affect the operation of clause 16.2
        (Representations and warranties repeated).

Expressions defined in the Facility Agreement have the same meaning in this
Drawdown Notice.

For and on behalf of
PENFORD AUSTRALIA LIMITED

----------------------------------
Authorised Officer

Name:
Title:

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                          SCHEDULE 4 - ROLLOVER NOTICE
                                  (CLAUSE 7.2)

                                                                  Date:  [     ]
To:     Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
        Level 9
        20 Martin Place
        Sydney, NSW 2000

        Attention:   Ms Michelle Burke

SYNDICATED FACILITY AGREEMENT DATED [     ] 2000 ('FACILITY AGREEMENT')

1.      We give you irrevocable notice that we wish to redraw an amount of $[ ]
        in aggregate on [ ] 20[ ] ('ROLLOVER DATE').

2.      Particulars of each Drawing required are as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         FACE VALUE                           FUNDING PERIOD
         ----------                           --------------
<S>                                           <C>
         [   ]                                [   ]
</TABLE>

3.      We represent and warrant that:

        (a)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] the representations and
                warranties in the Facility Agreement are true as though they had
                been made at the date of this Rollover Notice and the Rollover
                Date specified above in respect of the facts and circumstances
                then subsisting;

        (b)     [(except as disclosed in paragraph (c))] no Event of Default or
                Potential Event of Default is subsisting or will result from the
                provision of the Drawing/s; [and]

        (c)     details of the exceptions to paragraphs (a) and (b) are as
                follows: [ ],

                and we [have taken][propose] the following remedial action: [ ].

        We acknowledge that inclusion of a statement under paragraph (c) will
        not prejudice the rights of the Financiers under the Facility Agreement,
        including under clauses 6.2 (Conditions precedent to all Drawings) and
        19 (Events of Default), or affect the operation of clause 16.2
        (Representations and warranties repeated).

Expressions defined in the Facility Agreement have the same meaning in this
Rollover Notice.

For and on behalf of
PENFORD AUSTRALIA LIMITED

-----------------------------------
Authorised Officer

Name:
Title:

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                     SCHEDULE 5 - SUBSTITUTION CERTIFICATE
                                  (CLAUSE 28.3)

BETWEEN          [     ] ('INCOMING PARTICIPANT')

AND              [     ] ('SUBSTITUTING PARTICIPANT')

AND              AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED ACN 005 357 522
                 of Level 9, 20 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000 ('AGENT') for
                 itself and on behalf of each other party to the Financing
                 Documents to which the Substituting Participant is a party.

RECITALS

A.      The Substituting Participant, the Agent, Penford Australia Limited ACN
        003 780 229 and others are party to a syndicated facility agreement
        dated [ ] ('FACILITY AGREEMENT').

B.      The Incoming Participant wishes to assume [part][all] of the
        participation of the Substituting Participant in the Bill Facility.

AGREEMENT

1.      INTERPRETATION

1.1     DEFINITIONS

        In this Certificate, expressions defined in the Facility Agreement have
        the same meaning and:

        'SUBSTITUTED PARTICIPATION' means $[ ] of the [Available] Commitment of
        the Substituting Participant [and $[ ] of its participation in the
        Outstanding Bill Amount].

        'SUBSTITUTION DATE' means [the date of countersignature of this
        Certificate by the Agent or [ ], whichever is the later] or [SPECIFY
        DATE OR DATES AS APPROPRIATE].

1.2     INTERPRETATION

        Clause 1.2 (Interpretation) of the Facility Agreement applies to this
        Certificate.

2.      SUBSTITUTION

2.1     RELEASE OF SUBSTITUTING PARTICIPANT

        The Substituting Participant ceases to be entitled to and bound by its
        rights and obligations as a Participant under the Financing Documents
        [TO THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY RELATE TO THE SUBSTITUTED PARTICIPATION -
        INSERT IF ONLY PART OF COMMITMENT ASSUMED] with effect from and
        including the Substitution Date, but remains entitled to and bound by
        rights and obligations which accrue up to the Substitution Date.

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2.2     ASSUMPTION BY INCOMING PARTICIPANT

        With effect from and including the Substitution Date:

        (a)     the Incoming Participant and each of the parties to the
                Financing Documents assume obligations towards each other and
                acquire rights against each other which are identical to the
                rights and obligations which cease under clause 2.1 (Release of
                Substituting Participant) (except so far as the obligations
                assumed and rights acquired relate to the identity of or
                location of the Incoming Participant); and

        (b)     the Incoming Participant is entitled to the benefit of each
                Financing Document as a Participant with [a/an] [Available]
                Commitment [and participation in the Outstanding Bill Amount]
                equal to the Substituted Participation.

3.      INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT BY INCOMING PARTICIPANT

        Without limiting the generality of clause 2 (Substitution), the Incoming
        Participant agrees and acknowledges that it has independently
        investigated the status, business and financial condition of the
        Borrower. In particular, it has not relied, and will not rely, on any
        other Financier in that respect.

4.      PAYMENTS

        From and including the Substitution Date, the Agent will make all
        payments due under the Financing Documents in relation to the
        Substituted Participation to the Incoming Participant. The Substituting
        Participant and the Incoming Participant will make directly between
        themselves any payments and adjustments as they may agree with respect
        to accrued interest, fees, costs and other amounts attributable to the
        Substituted Participation prior to the Substitution Date.

5.      OUTSTANDING BILLS

        (a)     The Incoming Participant is taken to have accepted any
                outstanding Bills accepted by the Substituting Participant
                included in the Substituted Participation. The Incoming
                Participant must on demand unconditionally indemnify the
                Substituting Participant against any liabilities of the
                Substituting Participant as acceptor of the Bills.

        (b)     The indemnity of the Borrower in clause 10.7 (Indemnity and cash
                cover) of the Facility Agreement extends to any liability of the
                Incoming Participant under this clause.

6.      WARRANTY

        Each of the Substituting Participant and the Incoming Participant
        represents and warrants to the other parties that clause 28.2 (By
        Participants) of the Facility Agreement has been complied with in
        relation to the Incoming Participant.

7.      NOTICES

        The Funding Office and address for notices of the Incoming Participant
        is as follows:

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         ADDRESS                       FACSIMILE                 ATTENTION
         -------                       ---------                 ---------
<S>                                    <C>                       <C>
         [   ]                         [   ]                     [   ]
</TABLE>

8.      LAW

        This Certificate is governed by the laws of [ ].

SIGNED in

SUBSTITUTING PARTICIPANT

SIGNED by [                  ]               )
as attorney for [SUBSTITUTING PARTICIPANT]   )
under power of attorney dated                )
[              ]                             )
in the presence of                           )

--------------------------------------------     -------------------------------
Signature of witness

--------------------------------------------
Name of witness (print)

INCOMING PARTICIPANT

SIGNED by [                  ]               )
as attorney for [INCOMING PARTICIPANT] under )
power of attorney dated                      )
[              ]                             )
in the presence of                           )

--------------------------------------------     -------------------------------
Signature of witness

--------------------------------------------
Name of witness (print)

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AGENT

Countersigned by an Authorised Officer of the Agent for itself and on behalf of
the other parties to the Financing Documents:

-------------------------------------
Authorised Officer of Agent

Dated:
      -------------------------------

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                      SCHEDULE 6 - VERIFICATION CERTIFICATE
                            (ITEM (a) OF SCHEDULE 2)

To:     Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
        Level 9
        20 Martin Place
        Sydney, NSW 2000

Attention:     Ms Michelle Burke

I, [INSERT NAME] am [a director][the secretary] of Penford Australia Limited ACN
003 780 229 ('COMPANY').

This certificate is given to you in your own right and as agent for the
Participants.

I refer to the syndicated facility agreement ('FACILITY AGREEMENT') to be
entered into on or about the date of this certificate between Australia and New
Zealand Banking Group Limited ACN 005 357 522, the Company and others.

Expressions defined in the Facility Agreement have the same meaning in this
Certificate.

I CERTIFY as follows:

1.      DOCUMENTS

        Attached to this certificate are true, complete and up-to-date copies of
        each of the following:

        (a)     CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS:

                the constituent documents and certificate of registration of the
                Company in force today and as at the time the meetings referred
                to in paragraph 1(d) were held (marked 'A');

        (b)     POWER OF ATTORNEY:

                a duly executed power of attorney granted by the Company
                authorising execution of the Financing Documents to which it is
                a party (marked 'B');

        (c)     OFFICERS:

                those forms lodged or to be lodged with the Australian
                Securities & Investments Commission in accordance with section
                205B or 601CV of the Corporations Law, which evidence the
                appointment and date of appointment of the current officers of
                the Company (marked 'C'); and

        (d)     MINUTES:

                an extract of minutes of a meeting of the directors of the
                Company approving execution of the Financing Documents to which
                it is a party, the granting of the power of attorney referred to
                in paragraph (b) above and the appointment of the Authorised
                Officers referred to in paragraph 6 below (marked 'D').

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2.      NO REVOCATION AND OBSERVANCE OF FORMALITIES

        Each of the:

        (a)     power of attorney referred to in paragraph 1(b); and

        (b)     resolutions contained in the minutes referred to in paragraph
                1(d); and

        (c)     documents referred to in paragraphs 1(a) and (c),

        is in full force and effect and has not been revoked or suspended. Nor
        has it been amended or modified.

        All provisions in the Corporations Law and the constitution of the
        Company relating to the declaration of directors' interests and the
        powers of interested directors to vote were duly observed at or before
        the meeting referred to in paragraph 1(d).

        There are no Authorisations necessary or desirable to be obtained by the
        Company in connection with the execution, delivery, performance,
        validity or enforceability of the Financing Documents to which it is
        party which have not been obtained.

3.      CORPORATE AUTHORISATION

        (a)     At a meeting of the board of directors of the Company,
                resolutions were duly passed to:

                (i)     authorise the Company to enter into the Financing
                        Documents;

                (ii)    authorise and direct the execution by the Company of the
                        power of attorney referred to in paragraph 1(b) as a
                        deed; and

                (iii)   appoint the persons listed in paragraph 6 as the
                        Authorised Officers of the Company.

        (b)     It was also resolved at that meeting that entering into the
                Financing Documents is in the Company's best interests and for
                its benefit.

        (c)     The resolutions referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) were duly
                passed at a properly convened and properly held meeting of duly
                appointed directors of the Company at which a quorum of
                directors entitled to vote was present and acting.

        (d)     All provisions in the Corporations Law and the constitution of
                the Company relating to the declaration of directors' interests
                and the powers of interested directors to vote were duly
                observed at or before the meeting referred to in paragraphs (a)
                and (b).

4.      SOLVENCY DECLARATION

        The Company is able to pay all of its debts as and when they become due
        and payable and there are no grounds for suspecting that it will not
        continue to be able to do so after entering into the Financing Documents
        (and incurring any other liability which it proposes to incur around the
        time it enters into them).

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5.      FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE RESOLUTION

        The entry by the Company into the transaction evidenced by the Financing
        Documents is permitted under section 260A of the Corporations Law
        because the financial assistance has been approved by shareholders under
        section 260B of the Corporations Law, and all other requirements under
        section 260B have been complied with. Attached as annexure 'A' is an
        extract of the minutes of the general meeting of the Company resolving
        to provide the financial assistance.

6.      AUTHORISED OFFICERS

        The following are the signatures of the Authorised Officers of the
        Company:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
        NAME                    POSITION              SIGNATURE
        ----                    --------              ---------
<S>                             <C>                   <C>
        [     ]                 [     ]               [     ]

</TABLE>

Signed:
--------------------------------------------------
                   Director/Secretary

--------------------------------------------------
         Name in full (please print)

DATED:  [     ]

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               SCHEDULE 7 - APPLICABLE MARGIN AND COMMITMENT FEE

                             (CLAUSES 1.1 AND 22.1)

The Applicable Margin shall be the rate per annum set forth in the table below
opposite Leverage Ratio.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
    LEVEL       APPLICABLE MARGIN BASIS    COMMITMENT FEE   APPLICABLE MARGIN BASIS POINTS
                POINTS FOR BILL FACILITY                        FOR OVERDRAFT FACILITY
-------------- --------------------------- ---------------- --------------------------------
<S>            <C>                         <C>              <C>
   Level I                175                    30                       50

  Level II                200                    35                       75

  Level III               225                    40                       100
</TABLE>

In this Schedule:

"LEVEL I" applies on any day after the Reporting Date if, on such day, the
applicable Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 2:1.

"LEVEL II" applies on any day after the Reporting Date if, on such day, the
applicable Leverage Ratio is greater than 2:1 and less than or equal to 2.5:1.

"LEVEL III" applies until the Reporting Date and on any day thereafter if, on
such day, the applicable Leverage Ratio is greater than 2.5:1.

Levels I, II and III shall be determined in the manner specified in Schedule III
of the US Credit Agreement and 'Reporting Date' has the meaning given in that
Schedule.

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<TABLE>
<S>     <C>
EXECUTED as an agreement

BORROWER

SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED                     )
by Renu Gupta                                   )
as attorney for PENFORD AUSTRALIA LIMITED       )
under power of attorney                         )
dated 13/11/2000                                )
in the presence of                              )

/s/ Andrew Nafranowicz                              /s/ Renu Gupta
-----------------------------------------------     --------------------------------------------
Signature of witness

Andrew Nafranowicz
-----------------------------------------------
Name of witness (print)

AGENT

SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by AUSTRALIA AND    )   AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP
NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED by its        )   LIMITED by its Agent . . . Janet Mullins
Agent . . . Janet Mullins. . . . . . . . . .    )
pursuant to the terms of the Deed Poll dated    )
14 November 2000 in the presence of             )
                                                )

/s/ Andrew Nafranowicz                              /s/ Janet Mullins
-----------------------------------------------     --------------------------------------------
Signature of witness

PARTICIPANTS

SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by AUSTRALIA AND    )   AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP
NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED by its        )   LIMITED by its Agent . . . .Janet Mullins
Agent . . . Janet Mullins. . . . . . . . . .    )
pursuant to the terms of the Deed Poll dated    )
14 November 2000 in the presence of             )
                                                )

/s/ Andrew Nafranowicz                              /s/ Janet Mullins
-----------------------------------------------     --------------------------------------------
Signature of witness
</TABLE>

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