About the data

The figures

Every company licensed to run a primary grain elevator must file its charges with the Canadian Grain Commission before they take effect, and can't charge more than it filed. It may charge less. The Grain Commission publishes them as a summary of licensed primary elevator charges. This site reads the current summary, crop year 2026–27, updated September 15, 2026 (the file), and the earlier ones since 2014 for each company's history.

• Every figure is a maximum. No figure on this site is what an elevator will charge; it's the most it may.
• Fees are filed by company, not by elevator. Every Cargill elevator may charge Cargill's maximums. A few companies file rows for a province (Paterson) or a station (Ceres' Northgate and Nicklen Siding, G3's Maidstone); those elevators get those rows.
• Units are kept. Most figures are dollars a tonne; storage is a tonne a day. Some companies file drying per tenth of a point of moisture over straight grade, added to elevation, sometimes with a minimum; these are shown that way and compared only with each other. A percentage of the grain's price, a figure whose unit isn't stated, or a footnote in place of a figure is shown as filed and left out of every order and the calculator.
• Every footnote is shown where it applies, as filed. Footnote marks mean different things on different pages of the file, so each page's own footnotes are used.
• No elevator is ranked as a deal. Lists are nearest first; a list in order of fee is “lowest filed maximum”, one crop and one service at a time, because a filed maximum isn't a price.
• The file's own quirks, shown as filed: 'BP & Sons Grain and Storage Inc.' canola reads '.'; 'Parrish & Heimbecker++' carries ++ with no footnote on the page; 'Parrish & Heimbecker +++' carries +++ with no footnote on the page; 'Richardson Pioneer Ltd.' carries + with no footnote on the page.

The elevators

The Grain Commission's list of licensed primary elevators as of 2026-08-01: 329 elevators. Each is placed on the map at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's point for it (Grain Elevators in Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada), or at its town's centre where that point isn't in the open data (14).

Each elevator is matched to its licensee's filing by name. 308 elevators are matched. 66 elevators are licensed under a new name and matched to the filing under the old one, from the Grain Commission's own list of name changes (Bunge Canada Inc. was Viterra Canada Inc. until October 2025). 9 elevators are licensed jointly to Alliance Pulse Processors Inc. and Mobil Grain Ltd.; they get Alliance's filing. Each such elevator's page says so.

Elevators whose company's charges aren't in the summary

These elevators keep their page, with no figures. Their licensee isn't in the summary under any name this site can tie to it.

• Battle River Railway NGC Inc. (2 elevators)
• Prairie Premium Products Inc. (2 elevators)
• Border Bean International Inc. (1 elevator)
• Canada Direct Processing Inc. (1 elevator)
• Columbia Seed Co. Limited (1 elevator)
• Direct Grain Limited (1 elevator)
• ETG Commodities Manitoba Inc. (1 elevator)
• Ellis Farm Supplies Ltd. (1 elevator)
• Emo Feed Service Limited (1 elevator)
• Eskdale Seed Farm Ltd. (1 elevator)
• G.S. Dunn Limited (1 elevator)
• Market Place Commodities Ltd. (1 elevator)
• Prairie Heritage Seeds Inc. (1 elevator)
• R-Way Ag Ltd. (1 elevator)
• Red River Seeds Ltd. (1 elevator)
• S.S. Johnson Seeds Ltd. (1 elevator)
• Stonehenge Global Seeds Inc. (1 elevator)
• Sunrise Foods International Inc. (1 elevator)
• Walhalla Bean Co. (Canada) Ltd. (1 elevator)

Moisture

The calculator decides straight grade, tough or damp from the Grain Commission's moisture specifications (Official Grain Grading Guide), crop by crop.

Sources and licences

• Charges summaries 2014 to 2024: open.canada.ca, Open Government Licence – Canada.
• The July 22, 2025 and September 15, 2026 summaries, and the list of licensed elevators: grainscanada.gc.ca. They aren't yet in the open.canada.ca dataset; the Canadian Grain Commission is the source and isn't responsible for this site.
• Elevator points: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Grain Elevators in Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada).
• Postal codes and towns for "near me": GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Province outlines: Natural Earth (public domain). Street map: OpenFreeMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Corrections

If a figure here doesn't match the Grain Commission's file, or an elevator is matched to the wrong company, write to hello@grainfees.ca. A company that wants its charges changed files with the Grain Commission; this site follows the next summary. Privacy