The Michigan Department of Agriculture is asking the state’s wheat growers if they want to continue the state checkoff for the next five years.

The Michigan Wheat Program was created to promote profitable production, marketing, and utilization of wheat on behalf of Michigan farmers.  Producers are currently assessed one-half of one cent of the net value of wheat sold.

Any farmer who produces market wheat used beyond their own family’s use and made more than $800 at the first point of sale in any one growing season within the last three years is eligible to vote.

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