How to calculate pounds to bushels?
Conversion Factors
- barley BARLEY (48 lb/bu)
- corn CORN & sorghum SORGHUM (56 lb/bu)
- wheat WHEAT & soybeans SOYBEANS (60 lb/bu) British Tonne or Long Ton = 2240 lbs. American or Short Ton = 2000 lbs. Metric Ton = 1000 kg, approximately 2204 lbs.
How do you convert bushels to pounds?
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How to convert bushels to hundred weights?
cwt (hundred weight) = 100 lbs = 0.0453 metric tons = 2.22 bushels bushel = 0.45 cwt = 0.0204 metric tons metric ton = 48.992 bushel = 22.046 cwt cwt rough rice = 0.032659 metric ton milled rice
Can you convert bushels to pounds?
You want to convert it to pounds at 85% dry matter, as in Step 2. Use the math from Step 3: 80,000 pounds of initial dry matter content divided by 85% ending dry matter equals 94,118 pounds of corn at 15% moisture. Step 4. Make the bushel comparison: If you divide 100,000 pounds of 20% corn by 56, you would have 1,786 bushels.
How many gallons are in a bushel?
The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agricultural products, such as wheat.
What is the difference between a Polish bushel and a Spanish bushel?
The Polish bushel ( korzec) was used as measure of dry capacity. It is divided into 4 quarters ( ćwierć) and in the early 19th century had a value of 128 litres in Warsaw and 501.116 litres in Kraków. The Spanish bushel ( fanega) was used as a measure of dry capacity. It is roughly equal to 55.5 litres in Castille .
How big is a Winchester bushel?
The Winchester bushel is the volume of a cylinder 18.5 in (470 mm) in diameter and 8 in (200 mm) high, which gives an irrational number of approximately 2150.4202 cubic inches. The modern American or US bushel is a variant of this, rounded to exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, less than one part per ten million less.
When was the bushel abolished?
When the Tower system was abolished in the 16th century, the bushel was redefined as 56 avoirdupois pounds .
Is a bushel a mass?
Bushels are now most often used as units of mass or weight rather than of volume . The bushels in which grains are bought and sold on commodity markets or at local grain elevators, and for reports of grain production, are all units of weight. This is done by assigning a standard weight to each commodity that is to be measured in bushels.
How many gallons are in a bushel?
A bushel is 32 quarts, or 8 gallons, in the United States. The government has standard weights for bushels of various agricultural products.
How many pounds are in a bushel of peanuts?
How Many Pounds Are There in a Bushel of Peanuts? A bushel of green peanuts is 22 pounds, according to the Illinois General Assembly. The University of Florida states a bushel of Valencia peanuts is between 30 and 35 pounds. The weight of peanuts depends on various factors, including moisture content, size of shells and weight of the pods.
Overview
History
The bushel is an intermediate value between the pound and ton or tun that was introduced to England following the Norman Conquest. Norman statutes made the London bushel part of the legal measure of English wine, ale, and grains. The Assize of Bread and Ale credited to Henry III, c. 1266, defined this bushel in terms of the wine gallon, while the c. 1300 Assize of Weights and Measures usually credited to Edward I or II defined the London bushel in terms of the larger corn ga…
Name
The name comes from the Old French boissiel and buissiel, meaning "little box". It may further derive from Old French boise, thus meaning "little butt".
Weight
Bushels are now most often used as units of mass or weight rather than of volume. The bushels in which grains are bought and sold on commodity markets or at local grain elevators, and for reports of grain production, are all units of weight. This is done by assigning a standard weight to each commodity that is to be measured in bushels. These bushels depend on the commodities being …
Other units
The German bushel is the Scheffel. A Prussian scheffel was equal to 54.96 litres.
The Polish bushel (korzec) was used as measure of dry capacity. It is divided into 4 quarters (ćwierć) and in the early 19th century had a value of 128 litres in Warsaw and 501.116 litres in Kraków.
The Spanish bushel (fanega) was used as a measure of dry capacity. It is roughly equal to 55.5 lit…
See also
• Coomb (unit)
• Lamp under a bushel
• Winchester measure
External links
• U.S. Commercial Bushel Sizes for Agricultural Crops at the Wayback Machine (archived July 9, 2018)