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Wheat Grades & Grade Requirements
Grading Factors
Grades U.S. Number
Minimum pound limits:
1
2
3
4
5
Test Weight (lbs/bu):
HRS or White Club Wheat
58.0
57.0
55.0
53.0
50.0
All other classes and subclasses
60.0
58.0
56.0
54.0
51.0
Test Weight (kg/hl):
HRS or White Club Wheat
76.4
75.1
72.5
69.9
66.0
Durum
78.2
75.6
73.0
70.4
66.5
All other classes and subclasses
78.9
76.4
73.8
71.2
67.3
Maximum percent limits:
1
2
3
4
5
Defects:
Damaged kernels - Heat (part of total)
0.2
0.2
0.5
1.0
3.0
Damaged kernels - Total
2.0
4.0
7.0
10.0
15.0
Foreign material
0.4
0.7
1.3
3.0
5.0
Shrunken and broken kernels
3.0
5.0
8.0
12.0
20.0
Total 1/
3.0
5.0
8.0
12.0
20.0
Wheat of Other Classes: 2/
Contrasting classes
1.0
2.0
3.0
10.0
10.0
Total 3/
3.0
5.0
10.0
10.0
10.0
Stones
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
Maximum count limits:
1
2
3
4
5
Other material (1000 gram sample):
Animal filth
1
1
1
1
1
Castor beans
1
1
1
1
1
Crotalaria seeds
2
2
2
2
2
Glass
0
0
0
0
0
Stones
3
3
3
3
3
Unknown foreign sunstance
3
3
3
3
3
Total 4/
4
4
4
4
4
Insect-damaged kernels in 100 grams
31
31
31
31
31
U.S. Sample grade:
Wheat that:
(a) Does not meet the requirements for U.S. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; or
(b) Has a musty, sour or commercially objectionable foreign odor (except smut or garlic odor); or
(c) Is heating or of distinctly low quality.

1/ Includes damaged kernels (total), foreign material, and shrunken and broken kernels.
2/ Unclassed wheat of any grade may contain not more than 10.0% of wheat of other classes.
3/ Includes contrasting classes.
4/ Includes any combination of animal filth, castor beans, crotalaria seeds, glass, stones, or unknown foreign substance.
CROP QUALITY
Wheat Field

2012 U.S. Crop Quality Report

Every year, USW and its partnering organizations collect and analyze samples of all six classes of U.S. wheat, with all results compiled together in a single report. The 2012 Crop Quality Report is now ready as an important reference for wheat buyers, millers and wheat food manufacturers around the world. Find information by class and by regions within class.

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SUPPLY

How Much Wheat is Available

The latest USDA WASDE report lowered U.S. wheat exports on slow sales pace and increased foreign competition. Global wheat supplies projected lower on higher EU feed use and lower Chinese production. Global wheat production lowered, primarily on dry Australian weather. Exports raised for Ukraine, EU, Russia and India and lowered for the U.S. and Australia. Global wheat feeding lowered. At the projected 174.2 million tons, global stocks remain 46.0 million tons above the recent low in 2007/08.

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