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 97 - Small Grain Seed Certification Standards
Section 97.4 - Field standards

Universal Citation: 1 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 97.4

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024

(a) General.

(1) The field shall be considered the unit of certification. A field cannot be divided for purposes of certification unless satisfactory isolation exists.

(2) Isolation:
(i) Wheat, oats, barley, triticale, spelt. A strip of ground adequate to prevent mechanical mixtures, but no less than three feet wide, which is either mowed, uncropped, or planted to some crop other than the kind being certified, must be present between any plantings of wheat, oats, barley, triticale or spelt, and any other such plantings or combination of plantings.

(ii) Rye. A field producing any class of certified seed must be isolated by at least 660 feet from fields of any other variety or the same variety of lower certified seed class.

(3) A field producing either foundation or registered seed being grown from seed which has been treated for the control of loose smut shall be isolated at least 330 feet from other fields or the same crop which are not planted to treated seed.

(b) Specific requirements.

Maximum permitted in each class
Factor Foundation Registered Certified
Other varieties 1 ....... none 0.02% 0.05%
Inseparable other crops 2 ....... none none 0.03%
Prohibited weeds 3 ....... none none none
Seed-borne diseases:
1. Common bunt or stinking smut of wheat ....... 0.001% 0.01% 0.10%
2. Loose smut of wheat ....... 0.10% 0.25% 0.50%
3. Dwarf bunt in wheat ....... none none 1 plant/acre

Footnotes

1 Other varieties shall be considered to include offtype plants not typical of the variety that can be differentiated from the variety that is being inspected.

2 Inseparable other crops shall include crop plants, seed of which cannot be thoroughly removed by the usual methods of cleaning. Winter barley and winter wheat fields shall be free of rye.

3 Certified small grain fields shall be free of corn cockle (Agrostemma githago), wild onion and/or garlic (Allium spp) and the following vetches: hairy (Vicia villosa), narrow leaf (V. angustifolia), and common (V. sativa).

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