The Canadian canola crush fell in April compared to the previous month but was still well above last year.
A Statistics Canada report on Friday showed the April crush at 1.052 million tonnes. That’s down 4.1% from the 1.097 million crushed in March although 14.5% above the April 2025 crush of 919,345.
The year-to-date 2025-26 crush (August to April) now stands at 9.215 million tonnes, 5.2% above the same period a year earlier. As of the end of April, the cumulative crush for the current marketing year represented 76% of Agriculture Canada’s full year projection of a record 12.1 million – basically on par with last year when the annual crush totaled 11.412 million tonnes.
Agriculture Canada revised its 2025-26 canola crush estimate 100,000 tonnes higher in updated monthly supply-demand estimates released earlier this week. The new-crop canola crush is forecast at another new record high of 13 million tonnes, unchanged from the government’s April projection.
Cargill officially cut the ribbon on its long-awaited canola processing plant in Regina earlier this week. Located at Saskatchewan’s Global Transportation Hub, the plant is expected to process up to 1 million tonnes of canola annually.
According to the Canola Council of Canada, domestic canola processing capacity is expected to reach 15 million tonnes in 2026, a 40% increase from 2020.
The April canola crush produced 450,576 tonnes of canola oil, down from 468,766 in March but above 390,276 in April 2025.
