After failing to get enough support to establish a check-off in our province, Winter Cereals Canada will try once more this fall.


Executive Manager Jake Davidson says efforts to move forward were stymied in the spring after Manitoba's Agriculture Minister appointed a new producer certification board, which only met for the first time in June.


At the June meeting Davidson submitted a petition to start the process.


The vote is tentatively scheduled to be held in October or November, and with a positive outcome the check-off could be up and running by spring 2007.


A check-off was established earlier this year in Saskatchewan, and is set at 50 cents per tonne for winter wheat, fall rye, and winter triticale.


It's expected to raise $150,000 to $200,000 per year.


Davidson expects a similar amount would be raised in Manitoba.