Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 603 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Division 51 - PRODUCE STANDARDS › Section 603-051-0835 - Requirements and Conditions for Registration or Certification

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
Registration or certification by the Department shall not imply
				or be construed as any warranty of the Department or its employees. In addition
				to other requirements which may be specified by the Department, the following
				requirements and conditions shall be met in order to qualify for consideration
				of registration or certification of grape nursery stock:
(1) The applicant for such registration or
			 certification shall be responsible for the selection of the location and the
			 proper maintenance of a planting being grown under the provisions of these
			 sections. Said applicant shall be responsible for maintaining the identity of
			 all such nursery stock in a manner approved by the Department. The Department
			 shall be notified by the applicant in advance of the planting, replanting,
			 grafting, budding, rebudding, pruning, or removal of grape nursery stock, or
			 the removal of vines in any planting to be submitted for registration or
			 certification, in order that necessary inspections may be made or approval
			 granted prior to the performance thereof.
(2) Each planting shall be located in an area
			 where contamination by soil-borne virus diseases of grapes from drainage,
			 flooding, irrigation, or other means has not occurred, or is not likely to
			 occur. Each of said planting areas shall be inspected and approved by the
			 Department prior to planting:
(a) No
			 uncertified grape vines may be located within thirty feet of the increase block
			 location;
(b) No uncertified grapes
			 may be growing upslope from the increase block location;
(c) Only grape nursery stock originating from
			 Foundation Blocks approved by the Department may be planted in a certified
			 grape increase block. A grower may produce cuttings from foundation stock grape
			 plants for the purpose of completing the increase block planting, for example:
			 a grower who receives five certified Pinot Noir vines from an approved
			 foundation block may make forty five cuttings to complete a fifty vine planting
			 of that Pinot Noir clone in the increase block;
(d) Only cuttings from grapevines planted in
			 the increase block are eligible for certification tags provided by the
			 Department;
(e) The grower must
			 provide the Department with photocopies of the tags or other documents that
			 accompany grape stock received from foundation sources, such copies shall be
			 kept indefinitely in the Department certification file for the
			 grower;
(f) The grower must
			 prepare, and provide to the Department a map which locates each certified
			 grapevine in the increase block. The map shall be kept in the Department
			 certification file for the grower. Each grape vine in the increase block shall
			 be marked to show variety, clone number and foundation source;
(g) When new certified grapevines are planted
			 in the increase block, copies of certification tags must be sent to the
			 Department along with a revised planting map that indicates the locations of
			 the new vines;
(h) The grower of
			 the increase block shall be licensed with the Department as a nursery stock
			 grower;
(i) No increase block that
			 looses its certification status may be reinstated into the certification
			 program, not withstanding any change in ownership.