Specialty Wheats
Australian Premium Durum (ADR)
ADR is ideal for a wide range of wet and dry pasta products with excellent colour and shelf life and is also used in the production of North African and Middle Eastern products such as couscous, hearth and flatbreads.
- ADR1
- ADR2
- ADR3
| Commodity: Wheat Grade: DR1™ | Season: 2022/23 Standard Reference No.: CSG-130 | ||
| QUALITY PARAMETER | SPECIFICATION | COMMENT | |
| Variety Restrictions | Yes | Approved varieties only | |
| Protein Min (%) | 13.0 | N X 5.7 @ 11% Moisture Basis | |
| Protein Max (%) | n/a | ||
| Moisture Max (%) | 12.5 | ||
| Test Weight Min (kg/hl) | 76.0 | ||
| Unmillable Material Above the Screen Max (% by weight) | 0.6 | Includes whiteheads (with grains removed), chaff, backbone, Wild Radish pods, Milk Thistle pods, Skeleton Weed Flowers (Seed Heads) or other seedpods not otherwise listed. Excludes contaminants where tolerances already exist. | |
| Screenings Max (% by weight) | 5.0 | All matter passing through a 2.0mm slotted screen – 40 shakes in the direction of the slots | |
| Falling Number Min (sec) | 300 | Falling Number result overrides the visual assessment for Sprouted grains | |
| Defective Grains Max - (% by count, 300 grain sample [500 grain sample for WA], unless otherwise stated) | |||
| Sprouted | Nil | Distorted | 1.0 |
| Stained | 3.0 | Severely Damaged (count per half litre, grain remaining above the screen) | 1.0 |
| Pink Stained | 2.0 | All Smuts except Loose Smut (entire load) | Nil |
| White Grain Disorder / Head Scab | 1.0 | Insect Damaged | 1.0 |
| Field Fungi (count per half litre) | 10.0 | Over-Dried Damaged | Nil |
| Dry Green or Sappy | 1.0 | Vitreous Kernels Min (using an approved method) | 80 |
| Foreign Seed Contaminants Max - (count of seeds in total per half litre, unless otherwise stated) | |||
| Type 1 (individual seeds) | 8 | Colocynth, Double Gees/Spiny Emex/Three Cornered Jack, Jute, Long Head Poppy, Mexican Poppy, Opium Poppy, Field Poppy, Horned Poppy, Wild Poppy, New Zealand Spinach, Parthenium Weed (QLD only) | |
| Type 2 | Nil | Castor Oil Plant, Coriander, Crow Garlic/ Wild Garlic, Darling Pea, Parthenium Weed (NSW/VIC/SA), Peanut seeds and pods, Ragweed, Rattlepods, Starburr, St. John’s Wort | |
| Type 3a | 2 | Bathurst Burr, Bellvine, Branched Broomrape, Bulls Head/Caltrop/Cats Head, Cape Tulip, Cottonseed, Dodder, Noogoora Burr, Thornapple | |
| Type 3b | 4 | Vetch (Tare), Vetch (Commercial) | |
| Type 3c | 2 pods / 8 seeds | Heliotrope (Blue), Heliotrope (Common) | |
| Type 4 | 20 | Bindweed (Field), Cutleaf Mignonette, Darnel (Drake Seed), Hexham Scent/Meliot (only acceptable if no tainting odour is present), Hoary Cress, Mintweed, Nightshades, Paddy Melon, Skeleton Weed, Variegated Thistle | |
| Type 5 | 40 | Knapweed (Creeping/Russian), Sesbania Pea, Patterson’s Curse/ Salvation Jane | |
| Type 6 | 10 | Colombus Grass, Johnson Grass, Saffron Thistle | |
| Type 7a | 1 | Adzuki Beans, Broad Beans, Chickpeas, Corn (Maize), Cowpea, Faba Beans, Lentils, Lupins, Peas (Field), Medic Pods, Safflower, Soybean, Sunflower and any other seeds or pods greater than 5mm in diameter. Includes Onion Weed Pods regardless of size | |
| Type 7b | 50 | Barley (2 & 6 row), Bindweed (Australian), Bindweed (Black), Bread wheat, Brome Grass, Carrot Weed, Red/Spring Feed Wheats, Oats (Black/Wild), Oats (Sand), Oats (Common), Rice, Rye (Cereal), Ryegrass on Stalk, Sorghum (Grain), Triticale, Turnip Weed Pods and any other Foreign Seeds not specified in Types 1-7(a), in SFS or in Unmillable Material Above the Screen that remain above the 2.0mm screen following the Screenings process | |
| Small Foreign Seeds (% by weight) | 0.6 | All Foreign Seeds not specified in Types 1-7(b) that fall below the 2.0mm screen during the Screenings process | |
| Other Contaminants Max - (count per half litre, unless otherwise stated) | |||
| Pickling Compounds (entire load) | Nil | Pickled grain or artificial colouring | |
| Chemicals Not Approved for Wheat (entire load) | Nil | Residues of any chemical compound not approved for wheat, used in contravention of the labelled instructions or chemicals in excess of the MRL | |
| Ryegrass Ergot (length in cm) | 2.0 | Length of all pieces present aligned end on end | |
| Cereal Ergot | 1 | Pieces or whole affected kernel | |
| Stored Grain Insects & Pea Weevil – Live (entire load) | Nil | All life stages | |
| Insects – Large, dead or alive | 3 | Includes Rutherglen bugs, ladybirds, grasshoppers, locusts, sitona weevils, wood bugs & pea weevil (dead only) | |
| Insects – Small, dead or alive | 10 | Includes all species of aphid, mites & stored grain insects (dead only) | |
| Earcockle | 10 | Number of galls | |
| Snails | 1 | Dead or alive | |
| Loose Smut | 3 | Pieces of backbone | |
| Sand | 20 | Individual grains | |
| Earth | 1 | 5mm maximum in diameter | |
| Stones (g per 2.5L) | 4.0 | Maximum weight of all Stones retained above a 2.0mm screen per 2.5L | |
| Objectionable Material (entire load) | Nil | Presence of meat meal, blood meal, fish meal, poultry offal meal or other animal proteins. Stick/Stubble (>3cm in length and 1cm in diameter), glass, concrete, metal, animal excreta, animal carcasses, tainting agents or any other commercially unacceptable contaminant, smell or taste. | |
| Other Foreign Material (% by weight) | 0.1 | Fine material (eg., Soil, dust and minerals), pieces of snail shell (< half), pieces of stored grain insects | |
| Bread Wheat (% by count) | 3.0 | 300 grain sample (500 grain sample for WA) | |