It’s been a busy start to 2026! We have been busy hauling grain and bringing fertilizer in.
While most of our grain has been marketed for the summer timeframe, we did space some sales out through the winter for cash flow purposes and to get some of the farther yards empty. Since we aren’t under any time pressure through the winter we can be more particular on days that we haul – if roads are icy or poor visibility, we stay home. We had a string of 9 days in a row of good weather and managed to get our January contracts filled.
Normally we bring all our fertilizer in over the summer / fall timeframe. This year the prices did not reset and we felt were too high so we only took about 25% of our needs in over that time period. Since that time the prices rose, but now fell back to around the levels we bought at over the summer. Logistics starts to play into the consideration – and with limited potential for prices to fall further we decided to get the balance of our fertilizer now. It’s definitely a lot nicer brining in when it’s warm rather than -30C!
Outside of this we continue to work on plans for 2026 – crop rotation, budgets and business planning. This is the first year in a long time where we have virtually no new crop sold – outside of some canola. Prices are at or below breakeven levels – we will be continuing to watch and make sales at levels that make financial sense. There’s a long time to go before the 2026 crop is harvested, don’t need to rush into sales that won’t generate a profit!
