Off Grades of Grain and Grades of Screenings Order

16 (1) The grades for screenings, including wild oats and mixtures of whole and broken grain that are removed from other grain as a result of cleaning and do not qualify for any other established grade, and the specifications for those grades of screenings, as set out in this Part are hereby established.

(2) Grades of screenings established pursuant to this Part may be referred to as “Grades of Screenings” or “Class IV Grades”.

(3) No. 1 Feed Screenings

• (a) shall be grain screenings;

• (b) shall be cool and sweet;

• (c) shall contain

  • (i) not less than 35 per cent in the aggregate of broken or shrunken grain,

  • (ii) not more than two per cent hare’s ear mustard,

  • (iii) not more than one per cent hulls,

  • (iv) not more than three per cent in the aggregate of small weed seeds that can pass through a 4½/64 inch round-hole sieve, chaff, hulls and dust,

  • (v) not more than six per cent in the aggregate of small weed seeds that can pass through a 4½/64 inch round-hole sieve, chaff, hulls, dust, wild and domestic mustard seed, ball mustard, canola and rapeseed,

  • (vi) not more than eight per cent wild oats, and

  • (vii) not more than one per cent of the seeds designated as injurious in the Feeds Regulations; and

• (d) may contain wild buckwheat and not more than 10 per cent of other large seeds not named in this section.

(4) No. 2 Feed Screenings

• (a) shall be grain screenings;

• (b) shall be cool and sweet;

• (c) shall contain

  • (i) not more than two per cent hare’s ear mustard or wild mustard seed,

  • (ii) not more than one per cent hulls,

  • (iii) not more than three per cent in the aggregate of small weed seeds that can pass through a 4½/64 inch round-hole sieve, chaff, hulls, and dust,

  • (iv) not more than 10 per cent in the aggregate of small weed seeds that can pass through a 4½/64 inch round-hole sieve, chaff, hulls, dust, wild and domestic mustard seed, ball mustard, canola and rapeseed,

  • (v) not more than 49 per cent wild oats, and

  • (vi) not more than one per cent of the seeds designated as injurious in the Feeds Regulations except that there may be a total of two per cent of such seeds where the excess over one per cent is hare’s ear mustard or wild mustard (Brassica Kaber); and

• (d) may contain wheat scourings.

(5) Uncleaned Screenings shall be grain screenings that do not meet the specifications for No. 1 or No. 2 Feed Screenings because of the content of weed seeds, hulls, chaff or dust but that contain

• (a) at least 35 per cent of material that if separated would meet the grade requirements for No. 1 Feed Screenings; and

• (b) not more than one per cent of excessive wild oat hulls.

(6) Refuse Screenings shall be grain screenings that do not meet the grade requirements for No. 1 or No. 2 Feed Screenings or Uncleaned Screenings because of the content of weed seeds, chaff or dust.

(7) An inspector may include in the grade name of any screenings

• (a) if he considers the screenings to be typical of screenings obtained from the cleaning of a particular kind of grain, the name of that grain; and

• (b) if deterioration or an objectionable condition or odour occurs in the screenings to such a degree as materially to affect the quality of the screenings, words to indicate the type of deterioration, condition or odour.