Official Grain Grading Guide
Standard abbreviations
The following standard abbreviations are used in inspection reports, official records and certificates.
| Term | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| account | AC |
| adhered hulls | ADHULLS |
| adhered soil | ADHS |
| admixture | ADMX |
| aflatoxin | AFL |
| amber durum | AD |
| approximately | APPROX |
| artificial stain | ART STND |
| aspiration | ASP |
| aspiration, roughage and broken | ASPRHGEBKN |
| attrition | ATT |
| Avery bushel | A bu |
| azuki (adzuki) | AZU |
| barley | BLY |
| barley of other classes | BOOC |
| barley of other types | BOOT |
| beans | BEN |
| binburnt | BBT |
| binburnt, severely mildewed, rotted, mouldy | BBTSEVMILROTMLDY |
| black | BLK |
| black hilum | BHIL |
| black turtle | BKT |
| blackeye | BKE |
| blackpoint | BLK PT |
| bleached | BLCH |
| blue-eye mould | BEM |
| bran pellets | BRAN PLTS |
| broken | BKN |
| broken after cleaning | BKNACL |
| broken and shrunken | BKN&SHR |
| broken deducted | BKN DED |
| broken grain | BKN GRN |
| broken left | BKN LEFT |
| broken or shrunken | BKN OR SHR |
| brown | BRN |
| brown hilum | BRNHIL |
| buckwheat | BWT |
| Canada | CAN |
| Canada Eastern | CE |
| Canada Northern Hard Red | CNHR |
| Canada Prairie Spring | CPS |
| Canada Prairie Spring Red | CPSR |
| Canada Prairie Spring White | CPSW |
| Canada Western | CW |
| Canada Western Amber Durum | CWAD |
| Canada Western Extra Strong | CWES |
| Canada Western Red Spring | CWRS |
| Canada Western Red Winter | CWRW |
| canary seed | CNY SD |
| canola | CNL |
| canola and mustard seed | CNL & MUS |
| canola / mustard seed | CNL/MUS |
| canola meal | CNL MEAL |
| centimetre | cm |
| cereal grain | C GRN |
| chaff | CHF |
| chaff and dust | CHF & DUST |
| chickpeas | CHKPEA |
| chlorophyll | CHLL |
| clean | CLN |
| clover | CLV |
| cockle | COC |
| cockle other classes | COC OCL |
| colour, colours | CLR |
| commercially clean | CCLN |
| commercial salvage | C SLVG |
| composite | COMP |
| condemned | CNDM |
| confectionery | CONF |
| conspicuous admixture | CADMX |
| container | CONT |
| contaminated | CONTAM |
| contaminated grain | CONTAM GRN |
| contrasting classes | CON CL |
| contrasting colours | CON CLR |
| copper | COP |
| corn | CRN |
| cow cockle | CCOC |
| cracked | CRKD |
| cracked corn | CC |
| cracked corn and foreign material | CCFM |
| cracked seed coat | CSDC |
| cracked seed coats including splits | CSDC&SPLTS |
| cranberry | CBY |
| damage | DMG |
| damaged | DMGD |
| damage, foreign material and contrasting classes | DMGFMCONCL |
| damp | DP |
| damp extra | DP EX |
| damp sample | DP SPLE |
| damp sample Canada | DP SPLE CAN |
| dark green speckled | DGS |
| dark immature | DKIM |
| dark hilum | DHIL |
| dark red kidney | DRK |
| darkened kernels | DRKND KRNL |
| deducted | DED |
| degermed | DGM |
| dehulled | DHULL |
| dehulled seed | DHULL SD |
| dehydrated | DEH |
| destination | DEST |
| destroyed | DST |
| different | DIFF |
| different classes combined | DCC |
| different grades combined | DGC |
| discoloured | DCLR |
| distinctly detrimental | DDET |
| distinctly green | DGR |
| dockage | DKG |
| dockage excreta | DKG EXCR |
| domestic | DOM |
| domestic mustard seed | DMS |
| domestic seeds and green and tfm | DSDSGRNTFM |
| downy mildew | DWNY MIL |
| dutch brown | DBR |
| earth pellets | EP |
| eastern | E |
| elevator | ELEV |
| empty, clean and dry | ECD |
| ergot | ERG |
| ergoty | ERGY |
| excreta | EXCR |
| experimental | EXPRMTL |
| export ready | ER |
| extra | EX |
| extra strong | ES |
| faba beans | FBN |
| fair colour | FCLR |
| fairly good colour | FGCLR |
| fairly sound | FSND |
| fairly sweet | FST |
| feed | FD |
| falling number | FN |
| fertilizer | FERT |
| fertilizer pellets | FERT PLTS |
| final quality determination | FQD |
| fireburnt | FBNT |
| flaxseed | FLX |
| flax pellets | FLX PLTS |
| fm is excluded as a grading factor | FMXGF |
| food | FOOD |
| foreign material | FM |
| foreign material excluding cereal | FMXCGRN |
| foreign material excluding cereal grains and wild oats | FMXCGRNWO |
| foreign material excluding grain | FMXGRN |
| foreign material excluding other grains | FMXOG |
| foreign material excluding other cereal grains | FMXOCG |
| frost | FR |
| frost light | FR LT |
| frost severe | FR SEV |
| frost total | FR TOT |
| fusarium damage | FUS DMG |
| general purpose | GP |
| germination | GERM |
| glabrous | GLB |
| good natural colour | GNCLR |
| grade | GRD |
| grading factor | GRD FAC |
| grade improvement | GRDIMP |
| grain | GRN |
| gram | g |
| grass green | GRASS GR |
| grasshopper parts | GPT |
| grey hilum | GHIL |
| great northern | GTN |
| green | GR |
| green peas | GR PEA |
| guaranteed | G |
| hail damage | H DMG |
| handpick | HP |
| handpick coarse material | HP CURSMTL |
| handpick earth pellets | HP EP |
| handpick foreign material | HP FM |
| handpick hulled seed | HP HULL SD |
| handpick inseparable material | HP INSPMTL |
| handpick other grain | HP OG |
| handpick roughage | HP RHGE |
| handpick vegetable matter | HP VM |
| hard red spring | HRS |
| hard red winter | HRW |
| hard vitreous kernels | HVK |
| hard white spring | HWS |
| hard white winter | HWW |
| heated | HTD |
| heat stress | HTS |
| head rot | HEAD ROT |
| heated binburnt | HTD BBT |
| heavy | HVY |
| hectolitre | hL |
| hp coarse material | HPCURSMTL |
| hulled/hulless | HULL |
| hulled and broken | HULLBKN |
| hulls | HULLS |
| identity preserved | IP |
| immature | IM |
| inconspicuous admixture | INC ADMX |
| inert material | INERT MTL |
| inferior variety | INF VAR |
| injurious seeds | INJ SDS |
| insect damage | I DMG |
| insect excreta | I EXCR |
| insect parts | I PARTS |
| inseparable admixture | INSEP ADMX |
| inseparable seeds | INSEP SDS |
| kernels | KRNL |
| kilograms | kg |
| kilograms per hectolitre | kg/hL |
| knuckles | KNKLS |
| knuckles and straw | KNKL&STR |
| knuckles, straw and chaff | KNKLSSTRCHF |
| lady’s thumb | LTHMB |
| large | LGE |
| large seeds | LSDS |
| large seeds and broken grain | LSDS & BKN GRN |
| large seeds and chaff | LSDS&CHF |
| large seeds and small seeds | LSDS&SSDS |
| large seeds left in | LSDS LEFT |
| large seeds other than wild buckwheat | LSDS XW BWT |
| lb/bu Avery | Lb/bu-A |
| lb/bu Winchester | Lb/bu-W |
| lentils | LNT |
| light | LT |
| light red kidney | LRK |
| lightweight | LTWT |
| litre | L |
| malt barley | MALT BLY |
| malt pellets | MALT PLTS |
| maple | MAP |
| material | MTL |
| material other than splits | MOTSPLTS |
| matter other than cereal grains | MOTCG |
| mechanical damage including splits | MDMGINCSPLTS |
| midge | MDGE |
| mildew | MIL |
| mildewed kernels | MIL KRNL |
| millilitre | mL |
| millimetre | mm |
| millet | MLT |
| mineral matter | MIN MAT |
| mineral matter including stones | MINMATINCSTNS |
| mixed | MXD |
| mixed classes | MXD CL |
| mixed colours | MXD CLR |
| mixed grain | MXG |
| mixed types | MXD TYP |
| mixed varieties | MXD VAR |
| moderate weathering | MWEATH |
| moist | MT |
| moist sample | MT SPLE |
| moisture test | MST |
| mouldy | MLDY |
| mouldy kernels | MLDY KRNL |
| mustard seed | MUS |
| musty | MUSTY |
| natural stain | NSTN |
| net dockage | NET DKG |
| non-registered variety | NON REGV |
| not commercially clean | NCC |
| not of good natural colour | NGNCLR |
| not officially inspected | NOFFINSP |
| not ready for export | NRE |
| not reasonably good colour | NREASGCLR |
| not reasonably sweet | NREASST |
| not uniform in size | NUS |
| number | NO |
| numbers | NOS |
| oats | OAT |
| oat pellets | OAT PLTS |
| objectionable | OBJ |
| objectionable odour | OBJ ODOR |
| ochratoxin | OTA |
| odour | ODOR |
| off-colour | OFFCLR |
| oil | OIL |
| orange | OR |
| oriental | ORIENT |
| other | OTHER |
| other cereal grains | OCG |
| other cereal grains and other matter | OCGOM |
| other cereal grains excluding wheat | OCGXWHT |
| other cereal grains excluding wheat and barley | OCGXWHT&BLY |
| other classes | OCL |
| other classes of beans that blend | OCLBB |
| other classes of flax | OCLFLX |
| other classes that blend | OCL BL |
| other colours | OCLR |
| other conspicuous admixture | OCA |
| other damaged | ODMG |
| other distinctly detrimental seeds | ODDET |
| other foreign material | OFM |
| other grain | OG |
| other grain not wheat | OGXWHT |
| other grains | OGS |
| other hulless variety | OHLSVAR |
| other inseparable admixture | OINSEPADMIX |
| other large seeds | OLSDS |
| other matter | OM |
| other pulses | OPLSE |
| other than | OT |
| other varieties | OVAR |
| out of | EX |
| partition | PART |
| peabean | PBN |
| peas | PEA |
| peas of other colours | POOCLR |
| peeled | PLD |
| peeled and broken | PLD BKN |
| peeled, split and broken | PLDSPLTBKN |
| pelleted | PLTD |
| pelleted screenings | PLTD SCG |
| pellets | PLTS |
| penetrated | PENT |
| penetrated smudge | PENT SM |
| perforated | PERF |
| perforation damage | PERF DMG |
| Phyto Certificate issued | PHY |
| pink | PNK |
| pink kernels | PNK KRNL |
| pinto | PNT |
| plump | PLMP |
| poor colour | PCLR |
| prairie | PRIE |
| probe | P |
| protein | PROT |
| pulses other than green, yellow or orange peas | PULSESOTGRYELORORGPEA |
| pure | PURE |
| quality | QUAL |
| ragweed | RAG WD |
| rapeseed | RPE |
| rapid visco analysis | RVA |
| reasonably good colour | RGCLR |
| reasonably good natural colour | RGNCLR |
| reasonably sound | REASSND |
| red | R |
| red spring | RS |
| red winter | RW |
| registered | REG |
| rejected | REJ |
| riddle | RDLE |
| rime | RIME |
| rotted | ROT |
| rotted kernels | ROT KRNL |
| roughage | RHGE |
| roughage and aspiration | RHGE&ASP |
| roughage and hulls | RHGE&HULL |
| roughage including riddle | RGHEINCLRDLE |
| roughage, large seeds and broken | RHGELSDSBKN |
| rough awn | RAWN |
| round-hole | RH |
| ruptured | RUP |
| rye | RYE |
| rye pellets | RYE PLTS |
| safflower | SAF |
| safflower seed | SAFF SD |
| salvage | SLVG |
| sample | SPLE |
| sample Canada | SPLE CAN |
| sample feed grain | SFG |
| sample spilt | SPLE SPILT |
| sample too small | STS |
| sawfly | SFLY |
| scab damage | SCAB DMG |
| Sclerotinia sclerotiorum | SCL |
| screenings | SCG |
| seed | SD |
| seed coats | SDC |
| seeds | SDS |
| seeds and destroyed | SDS&DST |
| select | SEL |
| separation | SEPN |
| severe midge damage | SEVMDGE |
| severely damaged | SEVDMG |
| severely darkened kernels | SEVDRKND KRNL |
| severely mildewed | SEVMIL |
| severely sprouted | SEVSPTD |
| shale | SHALE |
| shrivelled | SHV |
| shrunken | SHR |
| sieve | SVE |
| sieves | SIEVES |
| six-row | 6 ROW |
| slightly stained | SSTND |
| slotted | SLTD |
| slotted sieve | SLTD SVE |
| slotted sieve #5.5 | SL5.5 |
| small | SML |
| small broken | SBKN |
| small red | SRD |
| small seeds | SSDS |
| small seeds and dust | SSDS&DUST |
| small seeds, chaff and dust | SSDSCHF&DUST |
| smooth awn | SAWN |
| smudge | SM |
| smudge including blackpoint | SMINCBLKPT |
| smudge total | TOT SM |
| smut | SMUT |
| smutty | SMTY |
| soft earth pellets | SEP |
| soft red winter | SRW |
| soft white | SW |
| soft white spring | SWS |
| sorghum | SRG |
| sound | SND |
| sound whole green peas | SNDWHGRPEA |
| sound whole yellow peas | SNDWHYELPEA |
| soybeans | SYB |
| soybeans of other colours | SOOCLR |
| special | SPEC |
| special bin | SPEC BIN |
| special cleaning | SCLN |
| special machine separation | SMS |
| special select | SPECSEL |
| split | SPLT |
| split green peas | SPLTGRPEA |
| split yellow pea | SPLTYELPEA |
| splits | SPLTS |
| splits, damage, foreign material and contrasting classes | SPDMGFMCC |
| splits in dockage | SPLTSDKG |
| spring | SPG |
| sprouted | SPTD |
| stained | STND |
| stained kernels | STND KRNL |
| standard | STD |
| starchy | STCH |
| stones | STNS |
| straw | STRAW |
| strong | STG |
| submitted | S |
| sunflower | SUN |
| sunflower seed | SUN SD |
| superficial discolouration | SUPDISCLR |
| Tartarian buckwheat | TART BWT |
| test weight | TWT |
| thin | THIN |
| tombstone | TOMBST |
| tonne | t |
| total | TOT |
| total adhered hulls | TOTADHHL |
| total attrition and seeds | TATT&SDDS |
| total broken | TBKN |
| total bleached including copper | TBLCHINCCOP |
| total cockle and sclerotia | TCOCSCL |
| total cockle and sclerotinia | TCOCSCL |
| total conspicuous admixture | TCA |
| total cracked seed coats including splits | TCSDCISPLT |
| total damage | TDMG |
| total damage and foreign material | TDMG&FM |
| total damage, foreign material, contrasting classes | TDMGFMCON |
| total damage including wrinkled | TDMGINCWRKL |
| total damage, splits, foreign material and contrasting classes | TDMGSPFMCN |
| total distinctly detrimental | TDD |
| total dockage | TOT DKGE |
| total foreign material | TFM |
| total foreign material including dockage | TFMINCDKG |
| total foreign material including other cereal grains | TFMINCOCG |
| total foreign material including sclerotia | TFMINCSCL |
| total including contrasting classes | TINCCONCL |
| total including damage, foreign material and contrasting classes | TINCDMGFMCONCL |
| total including inseparable seeds | TINCINSEPSDS |
| total including non-registered varieties | TINCNONREGVAR |
| total including splits, damage, foreign material and contrasting classes | TINCSPLTSDMGFMCONCL |
| total inseparable seeds | TINSEPSDS |
| total large seeds and wild oats | TLSD&WO |
| total other cereal grain | TOCG |
| total other classes and bleached | TOCLBLCH |
| total other oilseeds and inseparable seeds | TOOSDSINSEPSDS |
| total removable material | TRMAT |
| total roughage | TOT RHGE |
| total small seeds, large seeds, wild oats, roughage, broken grain | TSDLSWORB |
| total seeds and aspiration | TSDS&ASP |
| total seeds and attrition | TSDS&ATT |
| total seeds and roughage | TSDS&RHGE |
| total seeds and wild oats | TSDS&WO |
| total seeds roughage and attrition | TSDSR&A |
| total shrunken and broken | TSHRBKN |
| total small seeds and roughage | TSSDS&RHGE |
| total small seeds, attrition, dust and chaff | TSSDSATTDUSTCHF |
| total small seeds, chaff, dust and hulls | TSSDSCHFDUST&HULLS |
| total small seeds, roughage and attrition | TSSDSR&A |
| total smudge | TOT SM |
| total smudge and blackpoint | TSMBLKPT |
| total splits and damage | TSPLT DMG |
| total sprouted | TSPTD |
| total wheat heads knuckles straw and chaff | TWHDKNSTCF |
| total wheat of other classes | TWOOC |
| tough | TF |
| tough sample | TF SPLE |
| tough sample Canada | TF SPLE CAN |
| trace | TR |
| triticale | TCL |
| truck | TRCK |
| two-row | 2 ROW |
| United States of America | USA |
| utility | U |
| varietal purity not guaranteed | VPNG |
| variety | VAR |
| varieties with adhered hulls | VARADHHLS |
| vegetable matter | VM |
| very immature seeds | VIM SDS |
| vomitoxin | DON |
| weathered | WEATH |
| weed seeds in handpick | WDSDS HP |
| weight | WGT |
| western | W |
| wet | WT |
| wet sample | WT SPLE |
| wheat | WHT |
| wheat class declared by shipper | WCD |
| wheat heads | WHT HDS |
| wheat of other classes | WOOC |
| white | WTE |
| white cap | WCAP |
| white hilum | WHIL |
| white hilum grain | WHIL GRN |
| white kidney | WKD |
| white winter | WW |
| whole grain | WHOLE GRN |
| whole green pea | WHOLE GRPEA |
| whole yellow pea | WHOLE YELPEA |
| wild buckwheat | W BWT |
| wild mustard | WM |
| wild mustard and canola/rapeseed | WM&CNL/RPE |
| wild mustard and rapeseed | WMRPE |
| wild oats | WO |
| Winchester bushel | W bu |
| winter | WIN |
| wrinkled | WRKL |
| yellow | YEL |
| yelloweye | YLE |
| yellow-seeded flax | YELSDFLX |
| zearalenone | ZER |