Sorry, spuds. There's a new crop on the leaderboard.
A Statistics Canada report released Oct. 7 found that cannabis earned Canadian farm operations about CA$3 billion in 2025, or 5.8% of all crop cash receipts. That makes it the country's fifth-largest cash crop, according to The Marijuana Herald's write-up of the report, just ahead of potatoes at about CA$2.1 billion. Canola is still the big winner at CA$12.1 billion, followed by wheat.
A few more fun facts:
- StratCann notes that in 2016, two years before adult-use legalization, cannabis made up less than 1% of farm receipts.
- In 1971, tobacco was Canada's third-largest cash crop. By 2025 it was down to 0.3% of crop receipts.
- StratCann reports cannabis was the No. 1 crop in British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador in 2025.
One caveat: these figures measure what farms earned for the raw crop. They don't count store sales, which topped CA$5.6 billion in 2025.
What it means for travelers: heading north? Legal age and the rules for where you can consume vary by province, so check them before you go. And never take cannabis across the U.S.–Canada border, even between two legal places. Poutine, on the other hand, is fair game.