Standards for buckwheat

For the purpose of the official grain standards of North Dakota for buckwheat: Grade Minimum Test Weight Maximum Limits of Foreign Material Large Small Percent No. 1 North Dakota 45 48 1 No. 2 North Dakota 43 46 2 No. 3 North Dakota 40 42 4 Sample Grade - Buckwheat which has any commercially objectionable foreign odor, or is musty, sour, or is heating, hot, or otherwise unfit for the higher grades; shall be graded Sample Grade Buckwheat with the inspector's notation as to the quality and condition. 1. Dockage is all matter other than buckwheat which can be removed readily from a test portion of the original sample by use of an approved device in accordance with the procedures prescribed in the Federal Grain Inspection Manual. Dockage ranging from five-tenths percent to nine-tenths percent shall be expressed as five-tenths percent, dockage ranging from one percent to one and four-tenths percent shall be expressed as one percent, and dockage ranging from one and five-tenths percent to one and nine-tenths percent shall be expressed as one and five-tenths percent, etc. 2. Percentages, except in the case of moisture, shall be percentages ascertained by weight. 3. Percentage of moisture shall be that ascertained by the air oven or ascertained by any device and method which give equivalent results in the determination of moisture. Moisture will be shown on certificate (recommended safe storage level is sixteen percent or less). 4. Test weight per bushel [35.24 liters] shall be the weight per Winchester bushel or as determined by any device and method which give equivalent results in the determination of test weight per bushel [35.24 liters] when free from dockage. 5. Foreign material includes all other matter other than buckwheat, which remains in the sample after removal of dockage, and shrunken and broken kernels. 6. All grades may contain three stones per five hundred grams; in excess of three stones per five hundred grams up to two and five-tenths percent grade buckwheat, rejected "grade" account stones; in excess of two and five-tenths percent grade buckwheat, sample salvage.