3556. DISSEMINATION OF WEED PESTS THROUGH THE MOVEMENT OF FEED GRAIN.


The Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture designates feed grain as a thing liable to be infested with pests. Any person receiving or moving feed grain from within the state shall notify the County Agricultural Commissioner of the arrival of such grain, and hold the same for inspection by the Commissioner, without unnecessarily moving or placing such grain where it may grow or be disseminated or contaminate clean grain. The Commissioner may waive the requirement of notification of arrival and holding for inspection at destination on shipments which are accompanied by a certificate of cleanliness; or the Commissioner may waive the requirement of holding uncertified shipments for inspection if any such shipment is destined to a mill or establishment which has been approved by the Secretary or Commissioner as being capable of processing or storing feed grain infested with weed seed pests in such a manner that no contamination of clean grain or dissemination of the pests would result. The Secretary will issue a list of approved mills and establishments showing their locations. Weed seed pests each may receive, and the approved methods of handling infested feed grain.


A. DEFINITIONS. As used in this section:

1. "Feed grain" means the whole seed or seed? Like fruits of grain, including wheat, barley, oat, rye, sorghum, and corn, for any use other than planting.

2. "Restricted weed seed pests liable to be disseminated through the movement of feed grain" means viable seed or propagule of the following weeds: Acroptilon repens, Russian knapweed; Alhagi maurorum, camelthorn; Cardaria chalepensis, lens?podded hoary cress; Cardaria draba, heart?podded hoary cress; Cardaria pubescens, globe?podded hoary cress; Centaurea solstitialis, yellow starthistle; Cirsium avense, Canada thistle; Convolvulus arvensis, field bindweed; Elytrigia repens, quackgrass; Euphorbia esula, leafy spurge; Gaura coccinea, scarlet gaura; Gaura drummondii, scented gaura; Gaura sinuata, wavyleaf guara; Helianthus ciliaris, blueweed; Lepidium latifolium, perennial peppercress; Rorippa austriaca, Austrian fieldcress; Salvia virgata, meadow sage; Setaria faberi, giant foxtail; Solanum carolinense, Carolina horsenettle; Solanum elaeagnifolium, white horsenettle; Sonchus arvensis, perennial sowthistle; Sorghum halepense, Johnsongrass.

B. STANDARDS OF CLEANLINESS FOR FEED GRAIN.

To be eligible for certification under provisions of this section, feed grain shall be free of mature seed or propagule of restricted weed seed pests liable to be disseminated through the movement of feed grain, as listed in subsection (A.l), except that a tolerance shall be allowed of up to five (5) seeds each of Johnsongrass, field bindweed, and yellow starthistle, per pound of feed grain examined.

C. CERTIFICATES OF CLEANLINESS

May be issued by the Commissioner whenever adequate inspection has been made of the field or when samples are drawn from any conveyance, mill, or storage facility and it has been determined that the feed grain meets the standard of cleanliness. Continued identity of all such certified feed grain shall be maintained to prevent commingling with uninspected or infested feed grain.


D. INSPECTION COUNTIES.

Any Commissioner who elects to accept certificates of cleanliness issued in compliance with this section shall so notify the Secretary in writing. The Secretary will issue a list of counties where certificates of cleanliness will be accepted.


E. DISPOSITION OF INFESTED SHIPMENTS.

Any shipment of feed grain found to be infested with the seed of any pest not of common occurrence in the county or locality into which such shipment is brought is subject to the provisions of Sections 6341 to 6344, inclusive, of the Food and Agricultural Code. With the approval of the Commissioner at destination, such shipments may be allowed to move in quarantine to an approved mill or establishment.

 

RECOMMENDED CERTIFICATE OF CLEANLINESS

____________________________________  County

_______________________________Serial Number

This is to certify that the feed grain covered by this certificate meets the standard of cleanliness as prescribed in Section 3556 of the California Administrative Code.

Kind______________________________________

Amount_____________________________________

Rail Car No.________________________________

Truck License No._____________________________

Consignor__________________________________

___________________________________________

                                                 Name

                                 Address

Consignee__________________________________

___________________________________________

                                                 Name

                                 Address

__________________________________________

By ________________________________________

Agricultural Commissioner

             Inspector

__________________________________________

___________________________________________

Address

Date


Sampling Methods. All samples to serve as the basis for which certificates of cleanliness or certificates of inspection and release at destination may be issued shall be drawn by inserting a long probe or thrusting the hand into the bulk, as circumstances require, in at least five fairly uniformly distributed parts of the quantity being sampled.

Control of Certificates. Certificates accompanying any shipment of grain shall be delivered to the receiver at destination. The Commissioner at origin shall maintain adequate supervision of certificates at all times, and shall revoke any such certificates previously issued upon finding that the standard of cleanliness has not been maintained.

ACCEPTANCE OF CERTIFICATES BY COUNTIES

All counties will accept Certificates of Cleanliness for the purpose of waiving the requirements of notification of arrival and holding for inspection at destination of shipments of feed grain except:

Humboldt
Inyo-Mono
Lassen
Siskiyou

CCR SECTION 3556

APPENDIX B

FEED GRAIN REGULATION
APPROVED MILLS AND ESTABLISHMENTS IN CALIFORNIA

Symbols Indicating Approved Method of Handling
(C) - Cleaning                (H) - Heat Treating
(G) - Grinding                 (S) - Storage
(O) - Other

 

 

COLUSA

Bar Ale, Inc. / NAF Seed, Williams

All seed pests

(C)(G)(H)(S)

FRESNO

Coalinga Feed Yard Inc., Coalinga                                   

All seed pests

(C)(G)(S)

Harris Feeding Company, Coalinga

All seed pests

(C)(G)(H)(S)

Integrated Grain Milling (IGM), Fresno

All seed pests

(C)(G)(H)(S)

Kings River Commodities, Laton

All seed pests

(C) (G) (S)

Sunnyland Mills, Fresno

All seed pests

(C)(G)(H)(S)

 

GLENN

Artois Feed Inc., Artois                                                            

All seed pests

(C)(G)(H)(S)

 

IMPERIAL

El Toro Land & Cattle, Heber    

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

Foster Enterprises, Brawley   

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

Mesquite Cattle Feeders, Brawley

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

Moiola Bros. Cattle feeders, Brawley   

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

Superior Cattle Feeders, LLC., Calipatria 

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

University of California Desert Research and Cooperative Extension, El Centro

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

KERN

Three Brand Cattle Company, Bakersfield

All seed pests

(H)

 

 

 

 

KINGS

Boswell, J. G. Company, Corcoran

All seed pests

(C) (S)

Crisp Warehouse, Straford

All seed pests

(C) (S)

Hanford Grain Company LLC, Hanford

All seed pests

(C) (H) (S)

J.D. Heiskell, Hanford

All seed pests

(C) (H) (S)

Lacey Milling Company, Hanford

All seed pests

(C) (G) (S)

Pitman Family Farms, Hanford

All seed pests

(G) (H) (S)

Verhoeven, George, Feed Co., Inc.

All seed pests

(H) (S)

Zanola Grain, Bill, Stratford

All seed pests

(C) (S)

 

 

 

 

LOS ANGELES

California Milling Corporation, Los Angeles

All seed pests

(C)

Centennial Mills, Los Angeles

All seed pests

(C) (G)

Dext Feed Company, (Reconserve of CA / Los Angeles), Los Angeles

All seed pests

(G) (H)

Gargill Flour Milling (Horizon Milling), Los Angeles

All seed pests

(C) (G) (S)

General Mills, Inc., Vernon

All seed pests

(C) (H)

Leach Grain and Milling Company, Downey

All seed pests

(C)

 

 

 

 

 

MADERA

Lockwood Seed and Grain

All seed pests

(C) (S)

 

 

 

 

MERCED

Black Rock Milling Co., Le Grand

All seed pests

(G) (H) (S)

Foster Farms, Delhi

All seed pests

(G) (H) (S)

 

Modesto Milling, Planada

All seed pests

(G) (H) (S)

 

 

 

 

MONTEREY

L. A. Hearne Company, Inc., King City

All seed pests

(H) (S)

 

 

 

 

RIVERSIDE

Brookhurst Mill, Riverside

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

McAnally Egg Enterprises, Inc., Perris

All seed pests

(C) (G) (S)

Star Milling Company, Perris

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

 

 

 

 

SACRAMENTO

Elk Grove Milling, Elk Grove

All seed pests

(H)

 

 

 

 

 

SAN BERNARDINO

Honeyville Grain Inc., Rancho Cucamonga

All seed pests

(C) (S)

George Verhoeven Grain, Inc., Ontario

All seed pests

(H) (S)

Nutro Products, Inc., Victorville

All seed pests

(G) (H)

 

 

 

 

SAN DIEGO

Vita Gold, Escondido

All seed pests

(C) (G)

 

 

 

 

SAN JOAQUIN

California Natural Products, Lathrop

All seed pests

(H)

Diamond Pet Foods, Lathrop

All seed pests

(G) (H)

Diamond Pet Foods, Ripon

All seed pests

(G) (H)

French Camp Grain, French Camp

All seed pests

(C) (S)

Pacific Ethanol Stockton, LLC, Stockton

All seed pests

(H) (S)

Penny Newman Grain Company, Stockton

All seed pests

(C) (G) (S)

Reconserve (formally Feed Commoditites, LLC), Stockton

All seed pests

(H)

 

 

 

SAN LUIS OBISPO

 

California State Polytechnic University, Animal Nutrition Center / Animal Science Department, SLO

All seed pests

(H) (S)

Templeton Feed and Grain, Templeton

For pelleting only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SONOMA

Dairymen's Feed and Supply, Petaluma

All seed pests

(G) (H) (S)

Hunt and Behrens, Petaluma

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S) (O - pelletizing)

Willowbrook Feeds, Petaluma

All seed pests

(H) (S) (O - pelletizing)

 

 

 

 

 

STANISLAUS

 

Aemetis Fuels, Keyes

All seed pests

(H)

Associated Feed and Supply, Turlock

All seed pests

(C) (G) (H) (S)

Berry Seed and Feed, Keyes

All seed pests

(G) (H)

Farmers Warehouse, Keyes

All seed pests

(C) (S)

Foster Commodities, Turlock

All seed pests

(H)

Gilbert, A.L., Company, Oakdale

All seed Pests

(O) (G) (H)

Hatch Milling Organic, Turlock

All seed pests

(G) (H) (S)

J. S. West, Modesto

All seed pests

(G) (H) (S)

Land-O-Lakes Purina Feed, Turlock

All seed pests

(G) (C) (H) (S)

Modesto Milling, Empire

All seed pests

(G) (H)

Oakdale Commercial Feed Yard, Oakdale

All seed pests

(H)

OrganlQ A division of Associated Feed, Turlock

All seed pests

(H) (S)

Volkman Seed Factory, Ceres

All seed pests

(C) (S)

 

 

 

SUTTER

Colusa Produce Corporation, Meridian

All seed pests

(C) (S)

 

 

 

 

YOLO

Adam Schwab and Adams (Elevator), Woodland

All seed pests

(C) (H) (S)

Adam Schwab and Adams (Elevator), Dunnigan

All seed pests

(C) (S)

Cal West Seeds, Woodland

All seed pests

(C) (S)

County Line Warehouse, Dunnigan

Johnsongrass, field bindweed,
and yellow star thistle

(C) (S)

Farmers Grain Elevator, DuFour Station, Woodland

All seed pests

(C) (S)

Frontier Ag, Davis

All seed pests

(C)(G)(H)(S)

Pacific Grain

All seed pests

(G) (S)

Pacific International Rice Mills, Inc., Woodland

All seed pests

(C) (G) (S)

Western Food, Woodland

All seed pests

(G)