The Canadian canola crush increased in October compared to the previous month but still fell below last year.
A Statistics Canada crush report on Tuesday pegged the October canola crush at 1.026 million tonnes, up 1.9% from September and the highest so far in the 2025-26 crop year that began in August. However, this past month’s crush was 6.7% below the 1.101 million tonnes of canola crushed in October 2024.
The cumulative 2025-26 canola crush now stands at 2.901 million tonnes, up just 0.5% from the same time last year. The three-month total amounts to 24.5% of Agriculture Canada’s full-year forecast of 11.8 million tonnes. That compares to last year, when the Aug-October total of 2.884 million tonnes was 25.2% of the eventual total 2024-25 crush of 11.412 million.
Given the expansion in domestic processing in recent years, demand for Canadian canola is now largely domestically driven, Ag Canada said in its November supply-demand update, released on Monday. As such, the 2025-26 canola crush estimate remains forecast at a record high of 11.8 million tonnes, up modestly from last year’s 11.4 million and notably higher than the five-year average of 10.3 million.