United States Department of Agriculture

Agricultural Marketing Service

Federal Grain Inspection Service

U.S. Standards May 1988

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Subpart L -- United States Standards for Triticale

Contents

Subpart L -- United States Standards for Triticale 1

Terms Defined 2

Principles Governing the Application of Standards 3

Grades and Grade Requirements 3

Special Grades and Special Grade Requirements 4
Official US Standards for Grain

Triticale

May 1988

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Terms Defined

§ 810.2001 Definition of triticale.

Grain that, before the removal of dockage, consists of 50 percent or more of triticale (X

Triticosecale Wittmack) and not more than 10 percent of other grains for which 

standards have been established under the United States Grain Standards Act and that, 

after the removal of dockage, contains 50 percent or more of whole triticale.

§ 810.2002 Definition of other terms.

(a) Damaged kernels. Kernels, pieces of triticale kernels, and other grains that are badly

ground-damaged, badly weather-damaged, diseased, frost-damaged, germ-damaged,

heat-damaged, insect-bored, mold-damaged, sprout-damaged, or otherwise materially

damaged.

(b) Defects. Damaged kernels, foreign material, and shrunken and broken kernels. The

sum of these three factors may not exceed the limit for the factor defects for each

numerical grade.

(c) Dockage. All matter other than triticale that can be removed from the original sample

by use of an approved device according to procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions.

Also, underdeveloped, shriveled, and small pieces of triticale kernels removed in 

properly separating the material other than triticale and that cannot be recovered by 

properly rescreening or recleaning.

(d) Foreign material. All matter other than triticale.

(e) Heat-damaged kernels. Kernels, pieces of triticale kernels, and other grains that are

materially discolored and damaged by heat.

(f) Other grains. Barley, corn, cultivated buckwheat, einkorn, emmer, flaxseed, guar,

hull-less barley, nongrain sorghum, oats, Polish wheat, popcorn, poulard wheat, rice, 

rye, safflower, sorghum, soybeans, spelt, sunflower seed, sweet corn, wheat, and wild 

oats.

(g) Shrunken and broken kernels. All matter that passes through a 0.064 x 3/8 

oblonghole sieve after sieving according to procedures prescribed in FGIS instructions.

(h) Sieve. 0.064 x 3/8 oblong-hole sieve. A metal sieve 0.032 inch thick with oblong

perforations 0.064 inch by 0.375 (3/8) inch.
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Triticale

May 1988

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Principles Governing the Application of Standards

§ 810.2003 Basis of determination.

Each determination of heat-damaged kernels, damaged kernels, material other than 

wheat or rye, and foreign material (total) is made on the basis of the grain when free 

from dockage and shrunken and broken kernels. Other determinations not specifically 

provided for under the general provisions are made on the basis of the grain when free 

from dockage except the determination of odor is made on either the basis of the grain 

as a whole or the grain when free from dockage.

Grades and Grade Requirements

§ 810.2004 Grades and grade requirements for triticale.

Grade

Minimum

test 

weight

per 

bushel

(pounds)

Minimum 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

U.S. No. 2

U.S. No. 3

U.S. No. 4

48.0

45.0

43.0

41.0

0.2

0.2

0.5

3.0

2.0

4.0

8.0

15.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

2.0

4.0

7.0

10.0

5.0

8.0

12.0

20.0

5.0

8.0

12.0

20.0

U.S. Sample grade --

U.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 1-1/8 to 1-1/4 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.
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Triticale

May 1988

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Special Grades and Special Grade Requirements

§ 810.2005 Special grades and special grade requirements.

(a) Ergoty triticale. Triticale that contains more than 0.10 percent of ergot.

(b) Garlicky triticale. Triticale that contains in a 1,000-gram portion more than six green

garlic bulblets or an equivalent quantity of dry or partly dry bulblets.

(c) Light garlicky triticale. Triticale that contains in a 1,000-gram portion two or more,

but not more than six, green garlic bulblets or an equivalent quantity of dry or partly dry

bulblets.

(d) Light smutty triticale. Triticale that has an unmistakable odor of smut, or that contains

in a 250-gram portion smut balls, portions of smut balls, or spores of smut in excess of a

quantity equal to 14 smut balls but not in excess of a quantity equal to 30 smut balls of

average size.

(e) Smutty triticale. Triticale that contains in a 250-gram portion smut balls, portions of

smut balls, or spores of smut in excess of a quantity equal to 30 smut balls of average

size.