Sixteen farmers are scheduled to go to trial in Regina next year on charges of illegally exporting wheat and barley to the United States.
Last week, lawyers and agents representing about 60 farmers charged under Canada Customs legislation agreed the 16 accused would serve as a test case for the remaining farmers.
The charges were laid in April 1996, after the farmers took their grain across the border without a Canadian Wheat Board permit. It has taken several months for the Crown and defence counsel to agree on how and where the trials would be conducted.
Trials for two of the accused, who had earlier requested separate trials, will begin Nov. 5 in Estevan.
The Regina trial is set for next Jan. 12.
