Despite a challenging 2025 growing season, blueberries remain Canada’s top-selling fruit

Blueberries have been Canada’s most valuable fruit crop for most of the 21st century, claiming the top spot 16 times in 25 years.

They remained Canada’s most lucrative fruit crop in 2025, despite sales declining 1.4% year over year to $325 million, topping apple sales by $28 million to claim the crown again.

While blueberries are grown across Canada—even in the territories—production is concentrated in British Columbia, Quebec and the Maritimes.

Nationally, growers produced 156 922 tonnes of blueberries in 2025, down 11.3% from a year earlier.

Two types of blueberries are grown in Canada: highbush and lowbush. Highbush blueberries can range from two to four metres in height and resemble a small tree, while lowbush blueberries are low shrubs that grow in clusters ranging from 15 to 60 centimetres in height. Lowbush blueberries tend to be hardier, smaller and sweeter than their highbush cousins.

In 2025, farmers produced slightly more lowbush blueberries (51%) than highbush (49%), while highbush blueberries accounted for 61% of total sales.

Bountiful British Columbia is Canada’s biggest blueberry producer by a wide margin, accounting for 47% of national production in 2025. Nevertheless, production in the province was down 10.0% from a year earlier to 73 545 tonnes, partly due to a lack of rain in some regions. 

Almost all the blueberries grown in British Columbia are highbush.

Quebec was the lone major blueberry growing province to report an increase in 2025, with production rising 4.1% year over year to 42 951 tonnes.

A prolonged summer drought in the Maritimes put a major dent in blueberry production in the region in 2025. 

In Nova Scotia, blueberry production fell for the third consecutive year, falling 16.9% year over year to 15 604 tonnes. 

In New Brunswick, production was down by 38.0% to 15 014 tonnes, while in Prince Edward Island, production fell 10.8% to 8 690 tonnes.

According to our food availability release, which estimates the amount of food physically present in a country for consumption, just over 2.5 kilograms of blueberries in various forms were available per person in 2025. 

Fresh blueberries were most prevalent at 1.97 kilograms per person, followed by frozen blueberries at 0.64 kilograms per person. Canned blueberries may be a lot harder to find on store shelves, with 0.02 kilogram available per person in 2025.