# Canadian marketable apple production falls to a 13-year low

> Statistics Canada reported a 10.8% annual decline in marketable apple output for 2025, with production concentrated in four provinces.

- Topic: Economic and industry statistics
- Subjects: Official statistics
- Event date: 2026-10-22
- First published on EPC Feed: 2026-10-25T01:45:37.511Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T01:45:37.511Z
- Countries: Canada
- Page: https://epcfeed.com/news/canada-apple-production-lowest-since-2012


## Key facts

- Marketable production, 2025: 340,620 metric tonnes
- Annual production change: -10.8%
- Apple availability per person, 2025: 8.27 kg

Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s marketable apple production fell 10.8 per cent in 2025 to 340,620 metric tonnes, its lowest level since 2012. The agency published the update on October 22, 2026. Apple remained Canada’s second most important fruit by sales, after blueberries, but production was lower across most of the country’s main growing regions. The figure covers apples available for sale; it is not a measure of total harvest including fruit that was not marketable.

Production is geographically concentrated. Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia together accounted for 98.5 per cent of marketable output in 2025. Ontario produced 147,977 tonnes, down 8.2 per cent from the prior year. Quebec output declined 12.0 per cent to 103,251 tonnes. British Columbia recorded its sixth consecutive annual drop, falling 13.7 per cent to 52,411 tonnes, a record low for that province and 58.3 per cent below its 2006 high. Nova Scotia production fell 15.0 per cent to 31,725 tonnes; the agency cited summer drought as a factor in that provincial decline.

Statistics Canada’s article links the production result to availability, reporting that per-person apple availability edged down from 8.45 kilograms in 2024 to 8.27 kilograms in 2025. Availability is an estimate of food physically present in the country for consumption, which differs from sales and from farm output. The article compares the latest figure with a record high of 13.95 kilograms per person in 1994. These measures help show how production and supply trends connect to food availability over time, but they do not specify how much of the change came from imports, inventories, waste or changes in consumer preference.

The story also places the production data beside a longer price movement: apple prices rose 27.9 per cent over the five-year period from September 2021 to September 2026. This is a cumulative change over a defined interval, not a 2025-only price change. It should not be interpreted as evidence that the production decline caused the full price increase. The release provides no estimate of price effects attributable to supply changes, and the five-year price figure spans multiple harvests and other market conditions.

The underlying provincial time series is useful for seeing whether a single poor crop year reverses or extends a longer pattern. Statistics Canada’s public table reports marketable production by province and year, allowing comparisons across major producing regions. The October article’s regional figures show different magnitudes of contraction, while its summary notes that apples are grown and sold commercially in every province. A national total can therefore conceal substantial regional differences in weather, orchard output and commercial availability.

This is a commodity and agricultural-statistics update rather than a contract or infrastructure announcement. It reports production and availability figures from the 2025 reference year on a release date in the requested window. It does not name a processing contract, logistics constraint, EPC scope or investment decision. For EPC Feed’s coverage, its relevance is primarily the officially measured movement in a traded agricultural product and the linked food-availability statistic.

The available source says that growing fruit at home is one way households may offset food costs, and notes that 59 per cent of Canadian households grew fruits, herbs, vegetables or flowers for personal use in 2023. That background is not a market-size estimate or a substitute for commercial apple production. It simply provides context on household food growing while the official output data show marketable supply at its lowest point in more than a decade.

## Sources

1. [Marketable production of apples falls to lowest level in over a decade in 2025](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/9362-marketable-production-apples-falls-lowest-level-over-decade-2025). Official data, Statistics Canada, Published 2026-10-22, Read 2026-10-25.
2. [Area, production and farm gate value of marketed fruits](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3210036401&request_locale=en). Official data, Statistics Canada, Published 2026-02-16, Read 2026-10-25.
3. [Food availability and affordability in Canada](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/9354-food-availability-and-affordability-canada). Official data, Statistics Canada, Published 2026-10-15, Read 2026-10-25.