# The Seed Marketing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Paragraph 26: Higher voluntary standards for fodder seed


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.
Column header
Minimum analytical purity (% by weight)
Total weight of all other species (% by weight)
Total weight of a single other species (% by weight)
Seed of Rumex spp excluding R acetosella and R maritimus
Seed of couch
Seed of blackgrass
Limits of other specific species
Fine grasses
festulolium
98
1.5
0
0
10
0
red fescue
95
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
The sample must have no more than four seeds of ryegrass, cocksfoot, meadow fescue and 0.3% rough stalked meadowgrass
smooth-stalked meadowgrass
90
1.5
0.5
2
3
3
Maximum of 0.4% by weight of seed of other meadowgrass
Fodder grasses
cocksfoot
90
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
meadow fescue, tall fescue
98
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
0.3% rough stalked meadowgrass, 0.3% ryegrass
hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass
98
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
0.4% annual meadowgrass, 0.3% rough stalked meadowgrass
small timothy, timothy
98
1.5
0.5
4
10
10
0.3% Argostis spp
Small seeded legumes
lucerne, red clover, white clover
98
1.5
0.5
10
10
10
0.3% Melitotus spp
sainfoin
98
1.5
0.5
5
10
10
0.3% Melitotus spp

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/244/schedule/2/paragraph/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-26
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