We find the buyers. You make the sale.
A Western Canadian farm brokerage, family-led since 1986. Our brokers take your crop to elevators, processors and feed buyers, and come back with indications and firm bids. We also sell crop protection and book freight.
We know who is buying, and what they are paying.
Our brokers deal with elevators, processors and feed buyers in the domestic and export markets. We find buyers for almost any field crop grown on the Prairies and in the northern U.S., from No. 1 milling to heated, and quote bids FOB farm or delivered.
Sell your crop
Tell us the crop, grade and quantity. We bring you indications, then firm bids. You decide when to sell.
Sell on track or at destination
We place your grain with buyers in track and destination markets, at home and for export.
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Crop protection
See the price before you call.
Generic and branded herbicides, fungicides and insecticides, with prices posted on our webstore. Order online, or call a sales agronomist. Free shipping. Financing through the Scotiabank Yield More program, on approved credit.
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Freight brokerage
One call books the truck.
The carrier network
200+
Bulk carrier companies
3,000+
Hopper trucks across those carriers, mostly Super Bs
120+
Deck carrier companies, for full loads and LTL
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Online trading
Commercial grain, traded on screen.
Track and CIF/CNF grain for commercial buyers and sellers. A broker is on the phone during office hours.
How it works
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Bid
Say what you want to buy.
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Offer
Say what you have to sell.
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Negotiate
Counter the other side directly.
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Trade
Confirm when the terms meet.
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Regenerative agriculture
Regenerative agronomy, judged on your margin.
We work field by field, with advanced soil analysis and a fertility recommendation for each. We are not eco-crusaders. A practice earns its place by making your farm more efficient and more profitable.
The 10 Point Program
01–03
Pre-plant
Soil sampling, soil analysis, crop planning
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Core
Advanced fertility planning
05–09
In-crop
Weed scouting, herbicides, tissue and sap analysis, foliar fertility
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Data
A data analysis package
Johnston’s Daily
What traded through our Calgary and Welwyn offices, with grain bids and market notes. Read it before you price your grain. Free by email, every business day.
Our story
Founded in Welwyn in 1986. Still family-led.
1986
One broker in Welwyn
Allan Johnston opened a grain brokerage in Welwyn, Saskatchewan, and ran it alone.
2011
Marketing freedom
Allan Johnston and Joel Merkosky were in Ottawa as Parliament passed the law that ended the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly.
Today
Three locations
A head office in Calgary, an office in Welwyn and a warehouse in Maple Creek.
Contact
Call the broker you know, or ask for one.
One toll-free number reaches both offices, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time. Calgary is on Alberta time, and Welwyn on Saskatchewan time.
Toll-free
Offices