I.
Amplification of General Certification
Standards
A.
The General Standards are amplified as follows to apply specifically to
forage Bermudagrass:
B.
Only those fields planted with Registered or Foundation sprigs will be
eligible for certification. This
crop is produced under a limited generation system as defined in section XLI
A.
C.
For a field to be eligible for certification, the grower must notify
the Association during the year of sprigging or sodding that he intends to
certify subsequent crops, although he need not certify the crop the first or
any subsequent year.
II.
Land Requirements
A.
A field to be eligible for the production of Foundation or Registered
planting stock must have been free of other strains of the same species for
two consecutive years preceding the year that it is to be planted.
B.
A field to be eligible for the production of Certified planting stock
must have been free of other strains of the same species for one year
preceding the year that it is to be planted.
C.
A field to be eligible for the production of Certified planting stock
must have been thoroughly inspected at a time prior to planting, when
objectionable plants can be determined, and must have been found to be free of
noxious weeds and other strains of the same species.
Further, the field being inspected must not have been tilled or
otherwise molested prior to the inspection in such a way as to obscure
objectionable plants.
III.
Field Inspection
A
field inspection must be made each year that a Registered or Certified crop is
to be harvested during the growing season at a time when there is sufficient
growth to make the identification of other strains possible.
The field inspection should be made in the late summer or fall of the
year preceding the year the roots are to be dug.
IV.
Field Standards
A.
General
1.
Unit of Certification
The unit of certification shall be a field.
The entire acreage standing at the time of inspection must be inspected
as a unit.
2.
Isolation
A field to be eligible for certification must be isolated from any
other perennial grass by a barrier that will prevent encroachment or
mechanical mixing during harvest.
B.
Specific Requirement
|
Factor |
Maximum
permitted in each class |
||
|
Foundation |
Registered |
Certified |
|
|
Other
varieties1 |
None |
0.1% |
0.5% |
1Other varieties shall consist of all other strains of the species that
can be differentiated from the variety that is being inspected.
V.
Planting Stock Standards
|
Pure living sprigs
(minimum by count)
.90.0% |
|
Other living plants
(maximum by count
..2.0% |
|
Total objectionable
weeds (maximum)1
.None |
1Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense) and nutgrass (Cyperus rotundus).