Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 587 - Agricultural Products and Seeds
STANDARDS FOR CERTIFICATION OF SOD QUALITY SEEDS
Section 587.3392 - Procedures for qualification. ( NRS 587.077 , 587
Current through September 16, 2024
1. A person who wishes to label seed as "Nevada Sod Quality Seed" must submit to the Department a sample of the seed to be labeled, a report of the analysis of the seed conducted pursuant to NAC 587.3393 and a completed request on a form provided by the Department.
2. The Department may designate an authorized representative to receive samples of seed submitted pursuant to subsection 1.
NAC 587.3393 Seed standards. (NRS 587.077, 587.083 )
1. If only a portion of a particular harvested seed lot is to be labeled, the sample submitted pursuant to subsection 2 of NAC 587.3392 must represent only that portion of seed and must be clearly marked with a new lot number.
2. Seed lots submitted pursuant to NAC 587.3392 for labeling as "Nevada Sod Quality Seed" must be analyzed by a laboratory approved by the Department for compliance with the provisions of subsection 3.
3. Seed lots submitted for analysis pursuant to subsection 2 must be free from noxious weed seed and the kinds of seed set forth in subsection 5, as applicable, and comply with the following requirements:
| Kind | Minimum Purity | Minimum Germination | Maximum Other Crop | Maximum Weed Seed |
| Perennial Ryegrass | 98% | 90% | 0.1 %1 | 0.02 % |
| Merion Kentucky Bluegrass | 95% | 80% | 0.1 %2 | 0.02 % |
| Other varieties of Kentucky Bluegrass | 97% | 80% | 0.1 %2 | 0.02 % |
| Red Fescue | 98% | 90% | 0.1 % | 0.02 % |
| Chewings Fescue | 98% | 90% | 0.1 % | 0.02 % |
| Bentgrass | 98% | 85% | 0.1 %3 | 0.10 % |
| Tall Fescue | 98.5 % | 85% | 0.1 % | 0.02 % |
1 Certification fluorescence levels and appropriate calculations will be applied when determining levels of other crop.
2 Maximum other varieties of Kentucky bluegrass allowed is 2%; maximum allowed Canada bluegrass is .02%.
3 A 500 seed count will be used to determine other species of Agrostis.
4. The analysis for noxious weed seed, other crop seed and weed seed must be:
5. Each kind of seed set forth in subsection 3 must be free from the following other kinds of seed, as applicable:
6. As used in this section, "noxious weed seed" includes dock (Rumex spp.), chickweed (Cerastium spp.) and Stellaria media, crabgrass (Digitaria spp.), plantain (Plantago spp.), black medic (Medicago lupulina), annual bluegrass (Poa annua), velvetgrass (Holcus spp.) and any other weed seed that is designated noxious in any other state except Hawaii.
Added to NAC by Dep't of Agriculture by R174-99, eff. 3-13-2000
