Last month, five Manitoba crop groups voted in favour of amalgamation.
Pam de Rocquigny is general manager for both the Manitoba Corn Growers and Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers.
"The second step will be for the new entity, the Manitoba Crop Alliance, to gain its designation regulation in order to collect check-off on the crop types that we'll represent," she explained. "We're going through that process right now. So a petition has been submitted to the Manitoba Farm Products Marketing Council, from the Manitoba Crop Alliance, for them to consider a designation regulation and now that is working its way through the government procedures and processes with the goal of hopefully being operational by August 1, 2020."
The other groups involved are the National Sunflower Association of Canada, Winter Cereals Manitoba, and the Manitoba Flax Growers.
De Rocquigny says an interim board of directors is currently in place.
Elections are being planned for this coming fall.
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