How we work out our prices

Every price on this site is at your farm gate, with trucking and our fee already off. Here’s where each part comes from.

Where the bids come from

Every bid comes from a buyer: a price sheet they send us, or a bid they give us by phone, text or email. Every price shows the date of the bid behind it, and once it’s more than 2 days old it says how many days. Past 7 days we tell you to treat it as a rougher number.

A bid is an indication unless it’s marked firm. Ask us and we’ll confirm any price with the buyer before you haul.

From the buyer’s bid to your farm gate

If you’d rather haul it yourself, ask us for the delivered price. There’s no trucking to take off.

Trucking

We work trucking out from the road miles between your town and the buyer, priced for a full Super-B load. During spring road bans a truck can carry less, so trucking costs more a tonne.

Past the distances our rates cover, we don’t guess. We get a quote from a trucker. What it actually costs to truck grain in Alberta

Our fee

We charge one total fee per trade, and it’s already off every price you see: we invoice the buyer for our fee. Grain money never passes through Giddyupp. The buyer pays you directly.

Want to know what we earned on your trade? Ask us and we’ll tell you. What a grain broker does

Bushels and tonnes

A bushel is a different weight for each crop, so we use one set weight per crop to turn a price a tonne into a price a bushel. Lentils and mustard trade by the pound. Bushels to tonnes, crop by crop

What still comes off

Dockage, the provincial levy and any quality discount the buyer applies if your grain misses their spec. They aren’t ours, and they come off when your grain is sold. What our prices include

What we never show

Who the buyer is, who the seller is, or where a farm is beyond its nearest town.

Last updated 18 October 2026.