Maize Gritting CSG 44

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GRITTING MAIZE 1 August 2009
SPECIFICATION n/a 14.0 76.0 1.0
Standard Reference No: Season:
CSG-44 2009/10
PARAMETER Description Moisture Max (%) Test Weight Min (kg/hl) Foreign Matter Max (% by wt)
COMMENT/VARIATION Hybrids 99.8% free from genetic modification Oven Method AACC 44-15A Trade Certified Chondrometer Total of all material other than maize, including Foreign Seeds
Float Index Min (%) 70 Germination Min (%) 85 Sieve on 8000 um (%) 30.0 – 80.0 Sieve on 5600 um (%) 20.0 – 70.0 Sieve on 4750 um Max (%) 5.0 Sieve thru 4750 um Max %) 2.0 Impurities DEFECTIVE GRAINS Max (% by count, 300 grain sample, unless otherwise stated) Heat Cracked Max (%) 2.0 Broken Kernels Max (%) 5.0 Sprouted Kernels (entire Split germ and any further advanced stage of growth Nil load) Insect Damaged (entire load) Nil FOREIGN SEED CONTAMINANTS Max (count of seeds in total per half litre unless otherwise stated)
Type 1 (individual seed basis) Type 2 Type 3 (a) Type 3 (b) Type 3 (c) Type 4 (a) Type 5 Type 6 Type 7 (a) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Colocynth, Double Gee/Spiny Emex/Three Cornered Jack, Jute, Long Headed Poppy, Mexican Poppy, Field Poppy, Horned Poppy, Wild Poppy, New Zealand Spinach, Parthenium Weed (Qld only) Castor Oil Plant, Common Broomrape, Coriander, Crow Garlic/Wild Garlic, Darling Pea, Opium Poppy, Peanut seeds or pods, Ragweed, Rattlepods, Starburr, St. John’s Wort Bathurst Burr, Bellvine, Bulls Head/Caltrop/Cats Head, Cape Tulip, Cottonseed, Dodder, Noogoora Burr, Thornapple/False Castor Oil Vetch (Blue/Tare), Vetch (Commercial) Heliotrope (Blue), Heliotrope (Common) Bindweed (Field), Cutleaf Mignonette seeds or pods, Damel, Hexham Scent (Hexham Scent is only acceptable if no tainting odour is present) or King Island Melilot, Hoary Cress, Mintweed, Nightshades, Paddy Melon, Skeleton Weed, Variegated Thistle Knapweed (Creeping/Russian), Patterson’s Curse/Salvation Jane, Sesbania pea Saffron Thistle, Johnson Grass, Colombus Grass Chickpeas, Cowpea, Faba Beans, Lentils, Lupin, Peas (Field), Safflower, Soybean, Sunflower and any other seeds or pods greater than 5mm in diameter Barley, Bindweed (Australian), Bindweed (Black), Wheat, Durum, Oats (Black), Oats (Sand), Oats (Wild), Oats (Common), Rice, Rye (Cereal), Sorghum (Forage), Sorghum (Grain), Triticale, Turnip Weed and any other weed seeds not specified in Types 1-7(a) or SFS All foreign seeds not specified in Types 1-7(b) that fall below the 4.75mm screen during the Screenings process Total of all seeds other than maize
Type 7 (b)
n/a
Small Foreign Seeds Foreign Seeds Max (% by wt)
n/a 0.1
OTHER CONTAMINANTS Max (count per half litre, unless otherwise stated)
Smut – Boil (% by weight) Smut – All Others (entire load) Aflatoxin – Total Max PPB Fumonison – Total ppm Insects - Dead or Alive (entire load) Animal Matter (entire load) Rodent Evidence (entire load) Objectionable Material (entire load) Pickled and Coloured Grain (entire load) Odour (entire load) Chemicals Not Approved for Maize (entire load) 0.5 Nil 5 5 Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Smut caused by Ustilago maydis
Includes Ball & Gall Smut and all Smut other than Boil Smut
Total Aflatoxin including (AFB1+AFB2+AFG1 +AFG2) Total Fumonison including (FB1 + FB2 + FB3) Includes Stored Grain Insects, Pea Weevil, Field Insects, whole or pieces Includes carcasses, excreta, hair, any other animal parts, all animal meals Includes carcasses, excreta, hair, visibly chewed grains Sticks, stones, glass, concrete, or any other commercially unacceptable contaminant, smell or taste Pickled grain, dyed grain Grain which has any commercially objectionable foreign odour due to tainting agents or improper storage causing mould, souring or musty odours Residues of any chemical compound not approved for Maize, or used in contravention of the labelled instructions