Name: Producer deliveries of major grains
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Producer deliveries of major grains — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Producer Deliveries of Major Grains dataset (Table 32100351) spans nearly 60 years of monthly data (1966–2026), covering 41,634 records across 10 regions and 9 grain categories. Total monthly deliveries have grown approximately 11-fold, from ~1.6 million tonnes in the early perioKey Findings

Total monthly grain deliveries surged roughly 11x over the dataset's history, rising from an early average of ~1.6 million tonnes/month (pre-1975) to ~19 million tonnes/month in the 2020s, with an all-time peak of 30.7 million tonnes in September 2020.

Canola has transformed from a negligible crop in the 1970s into one of Canada's dominant grains, growing to rival wheat in delivery volume over the six-decade period.

The delivery distribution is strongly right-skewed: the median delivery is 67,311 tonnes versus a mean of 424,993 tonnes, with a maximum single record of 7,773,541 tonnes and 75% of all records falling below 421,688 tonnes.

Data completeness is high, with 95.5% of records (39,615 out of 41,502) containing non-zero delivery values and only 132 missing values in the delivery column.

The dataset tracks 81 unique time series vectors across 10 geographic regions — including national, Prairie provinces, Western/Eastern Canada, and individual provinces — and 9 grain categories over 714 monthly periods.

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