{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Marketing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Higher voluntary standards for fodder seed",
  "text": "In the case of cocksfoot, festulolium, hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, lucerne, meadow fescue, perennial ryegrass, red clover, red fescue, sainfoin, small timothy, timothy, smooth stalked meadow grass, tall fescue and white clover, certified seed (CS) may be marketed as certified seed of a higher voluntary standard, where the sample of seed taken under paragraph 25(2) satisfies the standards specified in the following Table.\nColumn header\nMinimum analytical purity (% by weight)\nTotal weight of all other species (% by weight)\nTotal weight of a single other species (% by weight)\nSeed of Rumex spp excluding R acetosella and R maritimus\nSeed of couch\nSeed of blackgrass\nLimits of other specific species\nFine grasses\nfestulolium\n98\n1.5\n0\n0\n10\n0\nred fescue\n95\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\nThe sample must have no more than four seeds of ryegrass, cocksfoot, meadow fescue and 0.3% rough stalked meadowgrass\nsmooth-stalked meadowgrass\n90\n1.5\n0.5\n2\n3\n3\nMaximum of 0.4% by weight of seed of other meadowgrass\nFodder grasses\ncocksfoot\n90\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\nmeadow fescue, tall fescue\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\n0.3% rough stalked meadowgrass, 0.3% ryegrass\nhybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\n0.4% annual meadowgrass, 0.3% rough stalked meadowgrass\nsmall timothy, timothy\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n4\n10\n10\n0.3% Argostis spp\nSmall seeded legumes\nlucerne, red clover, white clover\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n10\n10\n10\n0.3% Melitotus spp\nsainfoin\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\n0.3% Melitotus spp",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/244/schedule/2/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:05.592071+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}