Experimental grades of wheat and barley – Chapter 24
Official Grain Grading Guide

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Primary grade determinants tables

Wheat, Canada Western Experimental (CW EXPRMTL)

Grade name	Standard of quality
	Minimum test weight kg/hl (g/0.5 L)	Variety	Degree of soundness	Minimum hard vitreous kernels %
No. 1 CW EXPRMTL	79 (385)	Any wheat variety of the class Canada Western Experimental designated as such by Order of the Commission	Reasonably well matured, reasonably free from damaged kernels	65
No. 2 CW EXPRMTL	77.5 (378)		Fairly well matured, may be moderately bleached or frost-damaged, reasonably free from severely damaged kernels	35
No. 3 CW EXPRMTL	76.5 (373)		May be frost-damaged, immature or weather-damaged, moderately free from severely damaged kernels	No minimum
CW Feed	65 (315)	Any type or variety of wheat excluding amber durum	Reasonably sweet, excluded from other grades of wheat on account of damaged kernels	No minimum
Grade, if specs for CW Feed not met	Wheat, Sample CW Account Light Weight

Grade name	Foreign material						Wheats of other classes or varieties
	Ergot %	Excreta %	Matter other than cereal grains %	Sclerotinia %	Stones %	Total %	Contrasting classes %	Total %
No. 1 CW EXPRMTL	0.01	0.01	0.2	0.01	0.03	0.4	0.5	1.5
No. 2 CW EXPRMTL	0.02	0.01	0.2	0.02	0.03	0.75	1.5	3
No. 3 CW EXPRMTL	0.04	0.015	0.2	0.04	0.06	1.25	2.5	5
CW Feed	0.1	0.03	1	0.1	0.1	10	No limit—but not more than 10% amber durum
Grade, if specs for CW Feed not met	Wheat, Sample CW Account Ergot	Wheat, Sample CW Account Excreta	Wheat, Sample CW Account Admixture	Wheat, Sample CW Account Admixture	2.5% or less–Rejected (grade) Account Stones Over 2.5%–Wheat, Sample Salvage	See Mixed grain	Over 10% amber durum—Wheat, Sample CW Account Admixture

Grade name	Artificial stain, no residue %	Dark, immature %	Degermed %	Fireburnt %	Fusarium damage %	Grass green %	Grasshopper, army worm %	Heated
								Binburnt, severely mildewed, rotted, mouldy %	Total $
No. 1 CW EXPRMTL	Nil	1	4	Nil	0.25	0.75	1	0.005	0.05
No. 2 CW EXPRMTL	0.05	2.5	7	Nil	1.0	2	3	0.020	0.4
No. 3 CW EXPRMTL	0.1	10	13	Nil	2	10	8	0.030	1.0
CW Feed	2	No limit	No limit	2	5	No limit	No limit	2.5	2.5
Grade, if specs for CW Feed not met	Wheat, Sample CW Account Stained Kernels			Wheat, Sample CW Account Fireburnt	Over 5%—Wheat, Sample CW Account Fusarium Damage Over 10%– Wheat, Commercial Salvage			Wheat, Sample CW Account Heated

Grade name	Natural stain %	Pink %	Sawfly, midge %	Shrunken and broken			Smudge and blackpoint		Sprouted
				Shrunken %	Broken %	Total %	Smudge %	Total %	Severely sprouted %	Total %
No. 1 CW EXPRMTL	0.5	1.5	2.0	4	5	7	0.30	10	0.1	0.5
No. 2 CW EXPRMTL	2	5	5	4	6	8	1	20	1.5
No. 3 CW EXPRMTL	5	10	10	4	7	9	5	35	5
CW Feed	No limit	No limit	No limit	4	13	15	No limit	No limit	No limit
Grade, if specs for CW Feed not met					Sample Broken Grain

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