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Commodity Fact Sheet

Hard Red Spring
(Wheat)
1. Class:  Hard Red Spring
2. Subclass: Dark Northern Spring/Northern Spring
3. Grade: 

U.S. No. 2/ob

4. Protein: Ordinary
5. Moisture (Max): 13.5%
6. Dockage (Max): 0.6%
7. Test weight lbs/bu (Min.): 57.0
8. Falling Number (Min.): 300
9. Wheat of Other Classes (Max): 3.0%
10. Total Defects (Max): 1/ 3.5%

1/ Includes damaged kernels, foreign material, shrunken & broken kernels

PACKAGING:

Bulk shipment.

Source: USDA:FSA:PDD:EOB, March 2002 (Contact 202-690-3565)


Last modified: Monday, April 14, 2008 06:13:23 PM