New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
Chapter III - Plant Industry
Subchapter A - Inspection and Sale of Seeds (Article 9, Agriculture and Markets Law)
Part 109 - Seed Standards For Interagency Certification
Section 109.1 - Applicable standards
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) In the interagency certification of seeds, standards which shall be equal to or better than the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies' standards for the crop in question and outlined herewith shall apply. Such standards shall apply to seed under interagency certification which is cleaned, bulked, blended or rebagged.
(b) If seed is handled under interagency certification for which no standards have been adopted by the New York Seed Improvement Cooperative, Inc., then the seed standards in the originating State shall be applied.
(c) Certified seed standards.
|
Factor |
Ladino clover |
| Pure seed (minimum) ....... | 98.00% |
| Other crop seeds (maximum) ....... | 2.00% |
| Sweet clover (maximum) ....... | 180 per lb. |
| Inert matter (maximum) ....... | 2.00% |
| Weed seed (maximum) ....... | 0.50% |
| Objectionable weeds 1 (maximum) ....... | 360 per lb. |
| Total of germination and hard seeds (minimum) ....... | 85.00% |
(d) Standards for interagency certification shall be the same as for the certified class of seed in the preceding certification standards for these crops when grown in New York State.
Footnotes
1 Objectionable weeds are: Bracted plantain (Plantago aristata), buckhorn plantain (Plantago lanceolata), docks: curly (Rumex crispus), bitter (R. obtusifolius), green (R. conglomeratus), smooth (R. altissimus), sour (R. acetosa); sorrel (Rumex acetosella), giant foxtail (Setaria faberii), and wild carrot (Daucus carota). Landino clover seed shall be free of the following weed seeds: Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), dogban (Apocynum cannabinum)), horse netle (Salanum carolinense), Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense), leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula), pennycress (Thlaspi arvense), Russian knapweed (Centaurea repens), white top (Lepidium draba), (Lepidium repens), (Hymenophysa pubescens), bedstraw (Galium supp.), dodder (Cuscuta spp.), perennial sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis), quackgrass (agropyron repens), corn cockle (Agrostemma githago), and wild onion (Allium supp.).
