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By Alice McFarlane

New Crop Report for 2025

Canadian wheat crop a pleasant surprise

Nov 18, 2025 | 2:30 PM

Canadian wheat growers produced a good quality wheat crop with above-average volumes and yields in 2025.

In its annual New Wheat Crop Report to global and domestic customers of Canadian wheat, Cereals Canada said the new report included information on milling performance, flour/semolina quality, and end-product functionality for Canada’s 2025 wheat crop.

Cereals Canada Chief Executive Officer Dean Dias said Canada has produced another high-quality wheat crop with good functionality.

“Canada is on track to be the third largest wheat exporter and number one exporter of high quality, high-protein wheat,” Dias said. “In 2025-2026, 27.4 million tonnes of wheat is expected to reach over eighty international markets, with the quality and protein content that customers expect.”

The report stated Canadian farmers grew 36.6 million tonnes of wheat, with most graded No. 1 or No. 2. Despite variable growing conditions across the Prairies, timely mid-summer rains supported higher-than-average yields. In Eastern Canada, favourable weather throughout the growing season for winter wheat resulted in strong yields and good quality.

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Wheat protein content was comparable to average and all wheat classes from the 2025 crop had good test weights and higher than average thousand kernel weights were seen for all Western composites.

This year, as part of its New Crop outreach, Cereals Canada will interact with twenty-nine countries that purchased $8.2 billion of Canadian wheat in 2024. The organization, along with value chain members, producer representatives, and the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), is set to unveil the technical data for the 2025 wheat crop at two customer webinars on November 18 and 19.

Cereals Canada generated the data for the 2025 New Wheat Crop Report through its Harvest Assessment Program, which has traditionally only included wheat from Western Canada. This year, through a partnership with Grain Farmers of Ontario, the organization assessed Eastern wheat classes for the first time.

Vice president of technical services Elaine Sopiwnyk said this was a milestone year for Cereals Canada.

“Having the opportunity to analyze wheat from across the country broadened the expertise of our technical team and streamlined the process of preparing this year’s New Wheat Crop Report,” Sopiwnyk said.

The New Wheat Crop Report is prepared and presented each year in partnership with the CGC, value chain members, and provincial grower commissions. Throughout the harvest season, Cereals Canada worked with exporters and Grain Farmers of Ontario for representative samples of Canada Western Red Spring, Canada Western Amber Durum, Canada Eastern Soft Red Winter, and Wheat, by Specification, from the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.

Canada’s 2025 New Wheat Crop Report is available for download here.

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alice.mcfarlane@pattisonmedia.com