A class action lawsuit on behalf of farmers may be moving from federal court to Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench.

Manitoba farmer Andrew Dennis filed a 'statement of claim' in Manitoba seeking certification of a class action case on behalf of all farmers who delivered wheat and barley to the Canadian Wheat Board during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 crop years.

Chairperson for the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board(FCWB); Stewart Wells says the original class action suit was started in February of 2012.

"Last year there were new developments in court proceedings in the federal court, one of which was an argument brought forward by G-3, the company that inherited the farmer's assets who claimed the federal court was no longer the proper jurisdiction because G-3 was now a privately held company."

The case is based around $145 million, which the FCWB says should have been paid to farmers as part of their final payment, but was withheld and transferred to the CWB's 'contingency fund' and later to G-3.

"The CWB, with the knowledge and blessing of the federal government deliberately withheld money that should have come to farmers. That money was deliberately withheld in order to build a nest egg for some new entity which we now know was just gifted to a private company."

The CWB was developed in 1935, it was abolished in 2012.