Dairy Receipts Rose $271 Million in 2025 as Supply Management Delivered Stability While Crop Sectors Declined – News Brief

Western Farm Report | Livestock Products / Dairy Published: May 6, 2026

Statistics Canada’s full-year 2025 farm cash receipts release, published February 26, 2026, confirms that Canadian dairy receipts rose $271.1 million year-over-year, driven by increases in both prices and marketings. Supply-managed receipts as a whole reached $15.7 billion — more than one-third of all Canadian livestock receipts — growing 3.2% while crop receipts fell 1.7% and direct program payments dropped 18.4%.

Total Canadian farm cash receipts reached $101.4 billion in 2025, up $3.3 billion (+3.4%) from 2024. Livestock drove the gain at $45.3 billion (+13.2%), with cattle and hog receipts accounting for more than 75% of the livestock increase. Prairie producers in Alberta led all provinces with a $1.4 billion gain. Saskatchewan was the only province to record a decline (-$471.2 million), as livestock gains could not offset falling crop receipts and reduced crop insurance payments following improved growing conditions in 2024.

For Prairie dairy producers, the 2025 data confirms that the supply management framework delivered what it is designed to deliver: predictable, upward-trending revenue in a year when open-market grain and oilseed sectors faced meaningful price and marketing pressure.

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