Grades and grade requirements for triticale

Grade Minimum test weight per bushel (pounds) Maximum limits of— Damaged Kernels Foreign material Shrunken and broken kernels (percent) Defects 3 (percent) Heat damaged (percent) Total 1 (percent) Material other than wheat or rye (percent) Total 2 (percent) U.S. No. 1 48 0.2 2 1 2 5 5 U.S. No. 2 45 0.2 4 2 4 8 8 U.S. No. 3 43 0.5 8 3 7 12 12 U.S. No. 4 41 3 15 4 10 20 20 U.S. Sample grade— U.S. Sample grade is triticale that: (a) Does not meet the requirements for the grades U.S. Nos. 1, 2, 3, or 4; or (b) Contains 8 or more stones or any number of stones which have an aggregate weight in excess of 0.2 percent of the sample weight, 2 or more pieces of glass, 3 or more crotalaria seeds (Crotalaria spp.), 2 or more castor beans (Ricinus communis L.), 4 or more particles of an unknown foreign substance(s) or a commonly recognized harmful or toxic substance(s), 2 or more rodent pellets, bird droppings, or equivalent quantity of other animal filth per 11⁄8 to 11⁄4 quarts of triticale; or (c) Has a musty, sour, or commercially objectionable foreign odor (except smut or garlic odor); or (d) Is heating or otherwise of distinctly low quality. 1 Includes heat-damaged kernels. 2 Includes material other than wheat or rye. 3 Defects include damaged kernels (total), foreign material (total) and shrunken and broken kernels. The sum of these three factors may not exceed the limit for defects for each numerical grade.

[52 FR 24418, June 30, 1987; 52 FR 28534, July 31, 1987]