The Manitoba chapter of the National Farmers Union (NFU) feels it's being discriminated against in the way the province provides access to funding.

Currently only one general farm organization is provided a check-off through the Agricultural Producers' Organization Funding Act, which is now under review. That group is Keystone Agricultural Producers.

NFU Board Member Dean Harder, says their group is also a general farm organization, noting he's concerned that a recent survey by the province made no reference to the National Farmers Union.

He says it's not an issue of one group versus another, rather farmers should have an option of who they support.

"Sometimes we have similar viewpoints, sometimes there are differences in viewpoints. That's why we also suggest that farmers should have an option to choose either or and that should have also been on the survey."

Harder notes that the NFU is currently funded by going door-to-door, asking farmers to pay for yearly memberships.

The issue will be discussed further at the NFU Regional Convention being held in Portage la Prairie on March 30, 2017.