WINNIPEG -- Farmers can now deliver any wheat, durum and barley they contract with the Canadian Wheat Board to any elevator across the Prairies.

The board has announced it has reached handling agreements with all western Canadian grain companies.

Board president Ian White says an agreement was finalized Tuesday with 10 companies.

There are now almost 20 handlers that have agreed to take grain for the wheat board.

The new crop year began last Wednesday.

The wheat board no longer has a monopoly on western wheat and barley sales.