N.D. Admin Code 74-06-03-02 - Terminology and definitions
Terminology used in the "Official United States Standards for Grain", FGIS, USDA, Stock No. 001-016-00104-7 is used as appropriate in these mustard standards to facilitate communication; and equipment used by FGIS is used as possible.
1. "Broken seeds"
refers to broken, but sound, mustard seeds of any size (or with any portion of
seedcoat removed) not removed in the proper determination of dockage.
2. "Damaged seeds" includes seeds,
except heat damaged seeds, that are shrunken or shriveled as result of frost
damage, discolored from excessive weathering that has penetrated the seedcoat,
heavily blotched, distinctly green or heated as interpreted from the crushing
test, or otherwise distinctly damaged.
3. "Distinctly green seeds" refers to seeds
having a vivid green color throughout the embryo as observed and recorded after
the crushing test.
4. "Dockage"
refers to all matter removed from the sample using the required standard method
of dockage determination. Dockage is reported in percent and added to and made
a part of the grade designation after subclass.
5. "Foreign material other than dockage" is
all material other than mustard seed of the four subclasses after the removal
of dockage (includes weed seeds, other grains, earth pellets or stones,
sclerotia, "trash", etc.). This total foreign material is composed of:
a. A combination of seeds of cockle (Lychnis
spp.), wild mustard (Brassica kaber), and rapeseed (Brassica campestris and B.
napus);
b. Other weed seeds than
those in subdivision a; and
c. All
matter other than mustard or weed seeds of subdivisions a and b.
6. "Heat damaged seeds" refers to
whole or broken mustard seeds which are discolored light tan to charcoal black
by excessive respiration or any other heating or drying process and have a
distinct burnt odor after crushing.
7. "Moisture percentage" refers to moisture
percentage of the seed sample prior to dockage removal.
8. "N.D." in the grade designation refers to
North Dakota.
9. "Odor" of mustard
seed of any of the four subclasses should be the natural odor associated with
sound seed, and applied favorably to the numerical grades 1 to 4. Any lot of
mustard seed having a musty, sour, or otherwise objectionable odor will be
graded North Dakota sample grade on account of "odor".
10. "Purity" refers to total percentage of
the subclasses yellow, oriental, or brown, and to mixed mustard on basis of
percentage of mustard seeds required to qualify for the mustard class.
11. "Sound seed" refers to whole
or broken mustard seed not damaged by heat, sprout, frost, fungi, or otherwise
damaged, or which do not appear distinctly green in the "crush" tests. The
presence and percentage of distinctly green seeds and heat damaged seeds of
mustard will be determined, by crushing with a roller, on a minimum of five
strips of one hundred mustard seeds each. The determination will be made on
clean seed after dockage removal.
Notes
General Authority: NDCC 4.1-53-11(6)
Law Implemented: NDCC 4.1-53-11(6)
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