He said it was "misinformation" on [Chuck Strahl]'s part to suggest that the wheat board hasn't looked at the issue carefully.

"It's not that they (the wheat board) can't do it; they can do it. It's just a matter of will," he said.

Meanwhile, a Manitoba farm leader said he didn't think that a possible legal challenge to the federal government's plans to end the wheat board's barley monopoly would affect planting decisions this spring.