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The Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012

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CHAPTER 2Higher voluntary standards

Higher voluntary standards for fodder seed

29.  In the case of cocksfoot, festulolium, hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, Lucerne, meadow fescue, perennial ryegrass, red clover, red fescue, sainfoin, small timothy, timothy, smooth stalked meadow grass, tall fescue and white clover, certified seed (CS) may be marketed as certified seed of a higher voluntary standard.

Minimum standards for purity and other species of seed in the sample

30.  The sample taken under paragraph 28(2) for the purpose of Council Directive 66/401/EEC must have the minimum standards set out in the following table.

Column headerMinimum analytical purity (% by weight)Total weight of all other species (% by weight)Total weight of a single other species (% by weight)Seed of Rumex spp excluding R acetosella and R maritimusSeed of couchSeed of blackgrassLimits of other specific species
Fine grasses
festulolium981.500100
red fescue951.50.551010The sample must have no more than four seeds ryegrass, cocksfoot, meadow fescue and 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass
smooth-stalked meadowgrass901.50.5233Maximum of 0.4% by weight of seed of other meadow grass
Fodder grasses
cocksfoot901.50.551010
meadow fescue, tall fescue981.50.5510100.3% rough stalked meadow grass, 0.3% ryegrass
hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass981.50.5510100.4% annual meadowgrass, 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass
small timothy, timothy981.50.5410100.3% Agrostis spp
Small seeded legumes
lucerne, red clover, white clover981.50.51010100.3% Melitotus spp
sainfoin981.50.5510100.3% Melitotus spp

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