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Candidate's Guide To The Seed Grader Evaluation

APPENDIX A - List of Specimens for Identification Evaluation

PROHIBITED NOXIOUS

  1. Johnson grass

PRIMARY NOXIOUS

  1. Field bindweed
  2. Canada thistle
  3. Cleavers
  4. Couchgrass
  5. Perennial sow thistle
  6. Velvet leaf
  7. Wild mustard
  8. Wild radish

SECONDARY NOXIOUS

  1. Common ragweed
  2. Cow cockle
  3. Dock
  4. Night-flowering catchfly
  5. Stinkweed
  6. Wild carrot
  7. Wild oat

DISEASE BODIES

  1. Ergot
  2. Sclerotia

OTHER WEEDS

  1. American dragonhead
  2. Ball mustard
  3. Barnyard grass
  4. Green foxtail
  5. Hemp nettle
  6. Lady's-thumb/Smartweed
  7. Lamb's-quarters
  8. Mallow
  9. Redroot pigweed
  10. Russian pigweed
  11. Russian thistle
  12. Stickseed
  13. Wild buckwheat
  14. Yellow foxtail

CROP SEEDS

  1. Barley
  2. Beans
  3. Canarygrass
  4. Rapeseed
  5. Common buckwheat
  6. Common wheat
  7. Corn
  8. Durum wheat
  9. Fababean
  10. Flax
  11. Lentil
  12. Oat
  13. Pea
  14. Rye
  15. Soybean
  16. Sunflower
  17. Tartarian buckwheat
  18. Triticale

APPENDIX B (1) - Seed Grading Report

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Appendix B (1) illustrates the seed grading report form. The following information is found on the form: Name and number of impurities, for example, prohibited, primary, and secondary noxious weeds, germination and disease tests.

APPENDIX B (2)

Pedigreed Seed Declaration

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Appendix B (2) shows the pedigreed seed declaration. The following information on seed purity is listed on the form: noxious weed seeds, other weed seeds, other crop seeds and other factors.

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Date Modified: 2008-05-02

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