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IMMATURE GRAIN [3 records]

Record 1 2023-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Grain Growing
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
CONT

Freshly harvested "green" wild rice is invariably on the damp side. It must commence drying, or "curing, "almost immediately, or souring and mold will develop, especially in broken or crushed grains. Another purpose of the curing period is to give the immature grains a chance to ripen. Given this opportunity, a good number of the soft grains will get hard and gain the dark brown or black color of a ripe grain.

OBS

green: Not mature or ripe ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Culture des céréales
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
OBS

vert : Qui n'a pas encore atteint [...] la maturité.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Plant Biology
CONT

Some of the factors contributing to deterioration are impurity, too high or too low moisture content, immature and unfilled grain, cracked kernel, chalky grain, and red rice and other impurities.

CONT

During harvest, all essential agronomic data were gathered - including average panicle length and its corresponding number of grain, average number of filled and unfilled grain, average number of productive and unproductive tillers, and maturity from date of transplanting to harvesting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Biologie végétale
OBS

grain vide : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

In Canada, most mills produce bread flour entirely from hard red spring wheat. In doing this they combine percentages of the available grades to strike that all important balance between profit and quality. Some of the characteristics to be considered before wheat is purchased are: (...) presence of immature grains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

Au Canada, la plupart des minoteries produisent de la farine panifiable provenant entièrement de blés de force roux de printemps. A cette fin, elles mélangent les grades de blé dont elles disposent dans les proportions nécessaires pour réaliser l'équilibre primordial entre le profit et la qualité. Voici quelques-unes des caractéristiques dont on tiendra compte avant d'acheter un blé : [...] la présence de grains verts.

Spanish

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