Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 7 - AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS
Part XIII - Seeds
Chapter 5 - General Seed Certification Requirements
Section XIII-515 - Seed Sampling (Formerly Section 137)
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XIII-515
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Seed sampling will be performed at the request of the grower.
B. Except as provided by §515. D 2, official samples to determine eligibility for certification shall be drawn only after the seed is conditioned.
C. Sampling of Bagged Seed
1. Each lot of seed
must be stacked so as to facilitate sampling.
2. A LDAF inspector will sample at random, by
probing, a specific number of bags from each lot. The number of bags to be
sampled from each lot is as follows: five bags, plus 10 percent of the total
number, not to exceed 30 bags per lot. In lots containing six bags or less,
every bag will be sampled.
D. Sampling of Bulk Seed
1. Cleaned Seed in Bulk
a. A LDAF inspector will collect a minimum of
four samples, at intervals of 4 feet, by probing the entire depth of the bin or
storage area.
b. All samples will
be blended into one representative sample for each bin or storage
area.
2. Uncleaned Seed
in Bulk
a. A LDAF inspector will collect a
minimum of four samples, at intervals of 4 feet, by probing the entire depth of
the bin or storage area. All samples will be blended into one representative
sample for each bin or storage area.
b. A second representative sample will be
drawn within 60 days after the first sample, after conditioning, for
determining purity.
E. Analysis of samples shall be performed according to the current rules of the Association of Official Seed Analysts.
F. Resampling Policy
1. Except in special instances, as described
below, only one sample shall be obtained from each certified lot.
a. When a certified seed lot fails
certification requirements due to physical or mechanical purity factors, such
as excess inert matter or weed seed, the seed may be reconditioned if the
contaminants are separable. A complete purity analysis and germination test
will be required on the reconditioned lot of seed. Certified seed rice which
fails certification due to the presence of red rice seed in the sample shall be
subject to the terms of Subparagraph e below.
b. Should a seed lot fail certified seed
germination standards on the first laboratory test, a re-sample for germination
test only for that seed lot will be permitted. Only one re-sample per seed lot
will be permitted.
c. Whenever a
certified seed lot is divided into sub-lots, both a purity and a germination
test will be required for all sub-lots.
d. The last and most recent laboratory test
report for a seed lot shall be the final analysis used to establish the
eligibility for certification and will determine the information to be placed
on the tag.
e. When a certified
seed rice lot fails certification requirements due to the presence of one red
rice seed in the original four pound sample, then a second 8 pound sample may
be drawn from the lot. If one or more red rice seeds are found in the second
sample, the lot will be disqualified on the basis of red rice content. If no
red rice seed is found in the second sample, the lot would meet certification
requirements. Certified seed rice whose original sample contains the presence
of more than one red rice seed may not be re-sampled.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 3:1433 and R.S. 3:1434.
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