Nev. Admin. Code § 587.480 - Inspection of crops; notice to Department; standards for inspection; collection of samples

1. The Department will inspect an agricultural hemp seed crop after female flowers are produced.

2. Each producer must notify the Department of the appropriate date, as determined by the producer, for inspection of each crop pursuant to subsection 1. The notice must be provided at least 2 weeks in advance of that date.

3. A field of agricultural hemp seed crops entered for certification must show evidence of control of:

(a) Any contaminating crops of plants or varieties of those plants; and

(b) Any objectionable or noxious weeds specified by the Department.

4. Any variety of industrial hemp of the monoecious gender must show evidence of control of:

(a) Any contaminating gender that exceeds the amount of the varietal designation; and

(b) A deviation from the varietal characteristic relating to monoecious or dioecious genders of 10 percent or less.

5. The Department will collect one sample of an agricultural hemp seed crop per year when the flower is at maximum maturity to analyze the crop to determine the total amount of THC in the crop. The Department will use the following method to take each sample:

(a) Of each plant sampled, the top 6 inches of the female flower will be harvested;

(b) A total of 10 plants per field and per variety will be sampled in a manner that is proportionate with the designated field;

(c) Each sample will be contained in a single sealable plastic bag;

(d) Latex or nitrile gloves will be worn when sampling and sterilized or exchanged upon entering different fields; and

(e) Each sample of an agricultural hemp seed crop will be labeled according to date, producer, species, variety and sample number of the crop.

Notes

Nev. Admin. Code § 587.480

Added to NAC by Dep't of Agriculture by R066-17, eff. 5-16-2018

NRS 557.260, 587.077, 587.083