Marketable production of apples falls to lowest level in over a decade in 2025

Fall is apple season in Canada, whether you grow your own, pick your own at an orchard, bob for apples at a fair, or crunch on a fresh or candied apple at home. The year 2025, however, was a tough one for apple farmers, with marketable production falling 10.8% year over year to 340 620 metric tonnes, the lowest level since 2012. 

Despite the challenging growing year, apples remained Canada’s second most important fruit in terms of sales in 2025, following blueberries.

While apples are grown and sold commercially in every province in Canada, production is concentrated in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. Combined, these four provinces accounted for 98.5% of marketable apple production in 2025.

In Nova Scotia, a drought during the summer of 2025 led to a 15.0% drop in marketable apple production to 31 725 metric tonnes. Production was also down in Quebec (-12.0% to 103 251 metric tonnes) and Ontario (-8.2% to 147 977 metric tonnes).

In 2025, marketable production of apples in British Columbia declined for the sixth straight year, falling 13.7% to a record low 52 411 metric tonnes, 58.3% lower than the all-time high set in 2006.

According to our food availability release, which estimates the amount of food physically present in a country for consumption, apple availability edged down from 8.45 kilograms per person in 2024 to 8.27 kilograms per person in 2025. 

By way of comparison, there were a record high 13.95 kilograms of apples available per person in 1994.

Over a five-year period (September 2021 to September 2026), apple prices have increased by more than one-quarter (+27.9%). 

One way to beat inflation is to grow your own fruit. In 2023, 59% of Canadian households grew fruit, herbs, vegetables or flowers for personal use. Of those households, just over three in four (76%) reported growing fruit in their yard.