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My conversation with Allan Johnston, founder of Johnston’s Grain in Welwyn, Saskatchewan, about growing up on a farm near Moosomin, his early passion for machinery, and adopting continuous cropping after seeing severe soil drifting in neighboring fields.
Johnston recounts his father’s influence, including cattle-order buying and the founding of Prairie Livestock, and how drought, high interest rates, and financial risk led him to quit farming in 1986 and start Johnston’s Grain Marketing.
He describes learning futures and grain marketing through Don Monroe, building a mustard business with buyers like PJ Anderson, Elders Grain, and Humboldt Flour Mills, and early struggles with cash flow and producer habits tied to elevators and the Canadian Wheat Board.
Johnston also discusses selling DTN systems and Canadian banner content, opposing the Wheat Board monopoly, scaling the company to about 35 employees under his son Chevy and partner Joel, expanding into generic crop protection, regenerative products, and importing fertilizer, and credits his wife’s long-term support.
Life’s Good
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