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Michigan Administrative Code (Last Updated: November 16, 2016) |
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Department AC. Agriculture and Rural Development |
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Pesticide and Plant Pesticide Management Division |
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Chapter Regulation No. 623. Field Seed Certification |
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Part 3. TURFGRASS SEED STANDARDS |
Section 285.623.306. Fine fescue (Festuca rubra, Sub var rubra, Fallax, Ovina var duruiscula).
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(1) The standards of this rule for fine fescue include chewings, red, and hard fescues.
(2) To be eligible to produce fine fescue foundation seed, land shall not have grown, or have been seeded to, this species during the previous 5 years. Land shall not have grown, or have been seeded to, fine fescue grasses during the previous 18 months to produce certified seed, unless the previous crop was of the same variety and class and was certified.
(3) Fine fescue shall be planted in distinct rows.
(4) Limitations on the age of stand and pedigree classes of seed through which a variety may be multiplied shall be specified by the originator, but shall not exceed the limitations that are established by the certifying agency.
(5) Field standards for fine fescue seed are as follows:
Classes of Seed
Factor
Foundation
Certified
Other varieties (maximum)1
none
1.0%
Isolation2, 3
Less than 5 acres (minimum)
1,320 feet
330 feet
More than 5 acres (minimum)
900 feet
165 feet
1 Includes off-type plants.
2 Hard fescue need not be isolated from red or chewings fescue. 3 See R 285.623.302 - Isolation.
(6) Seed standards for fine fescue seed are as follows:
Classes of Seed
Factor Foundation Certified
Pure seed (minimum) 98.0% 97.0%
Other crop (maximum) 0.1% 0.25%
Inert matter (maximum) 2.0% 3.0%
Weed seed (maximum) 0.1% 0.3%
Prohibited noxious weeds (maximum) none none Restricted noxious weeds and St.
Johnswart, docks, sheep sorrel,
bedstraw (maximum) 27 per pound 45 per pound Germination (minimum) 85.0%
History: 1994 AACS.