N.D. Admin. Code 74-06-02-03

Current through Supplement No. 394, October, 2024

Section 74-06-02-03 - Determination of dockage

1. Determine dockage.

Dockage (Drop fraction or five-tenths percent).

Pan #1 Material over oil sunflower riddle. If any buckwheat is in this pan, remove and return to dockage free buckwheat.

Pan #2 Material over# 8 sieve. This is the dockage free buckwheat.

Pan #3 Material through # 8 sieve. If over fifty percent of dockage, add to dockage. If over fifty percent of cultivated buckwheat, return all of this material to dockage free buckwheat.

Pan #4 Material through # 6 bottom sieve.

Dockage consists of air dockage plus contents of pan #4. Dockage is defined as 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. Take test weight on dockage free portion (whole and half pounds only).

3. Check sixty gram dockage free portion for foreign material. Foreign material is defined as all other matter other than buckwheat which remains in the sample after the removal of dockage and shrunken and broken kernels.

4. Check sample for foreign odor

5. Perform a moisture test (two hundred fifty grams sample as a whole).

N.D. Admin Code 74-06-02-03

Effective September 1, 1979; amended effective May 1, 1988.

General Authority: NDCC 4.1-53-11(6)

Law Implemented: NDCC 4.1-53-11(6)