"I am grateful to the Prime Minister for his invitation to meet with me to discuss the proposed changes to the Australia's wheat export marketing system.

"Any change is going to impact on all of Australia's wheat growers and I have always held the belief that they should have the opportunity to have a say.

"This is why I'm conducting a poll as I did last year when the wheat for weapons scandal erupted bringing on the Cole Inquiry and now the Wheat Export Marketing Bill proposed changes to a multi-licensing.

"Given that Mr Rudd said in Tamworth in March, 2006, that `I think if the Howard Government is fair dinkum about finding out what wheat farmers want, what they should be doing is polling all wheat farmers', I will present the findings of the poll to him at our meeting and look forward to a fruitful discussion," Mr Windsor says.

As a result of the PM's invitation, Mr Windsor is extending the period for wheat growers to respond to his poll to find out their views of the proposed changes to April 28 so that Mr Windsor can provide Mr Rudd with as comprehensive a view of the changes as possible.