Bushel

[quattro]

What’s the American bushel equal to in kilos? Tia

 

[R J]

I think it is about 25 kg
Not 100% sure though

 

[Pilatus]

A bushel is a volume.
So a bushel of barley will weigh differently to a bushel of wheat.
Google “Bushel weights of crop table”.
Just to make it more complicated for us Europeans to understand, the bushel weight is measured in “lbs”.!!!!!

 

[An Gof]

What’s the American bushel equal to in kilos? Tia

Depends what its a bushel of

 

[farenheit]

What a ridiculous way of doing yields

 

[T Hectares]

Converting Grain Units - U.S. GRAINS COUNCIL

Conversion Factors BARLEY (48 lb/bu) 1 bushel = .021772 metric ton 1 metric ton = 45.9296 bushels CORN & SORGHUM (56 lb/bu) 1 bushel = .0254 metric ton 1 metric ton = 39.368 bushels WHEAT & SOYBEANS (60 lb/bu) 1 bushel = .0272155 metric ton 1 metric ton = 36.7437 bushels Note on Tons: British...

grains.org

Different crops = different weights

 

[T Hectares]

What a ridiculous way of doing yields

Much simpler to use cwt/acre

 

[goodevans]

What a ridiculous way of doing yields

But to be fair most people quote bales per acre as opposed to tons per acre

 

[Pilatus]

What a ridiculous way of doing yields

You had better tell all North American farmers that.

 

[Wombat]

You had better tell all North American farmers that.

I have some American farming friends and tell them it regularly

 

[PSQ]

Wheat: 27.2kg.

And Americans think the Amish are living in the past

 

[Lowland1]

A bushel of green beans weighs 24lbs. 400 bushels is a good yield if anyone wants to know.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

But to be fair most people quote bales per acre as opposed to tons per acre

thats because you can stand and count them, unless you have a weigh bridge its tricky to work out tonnes per acre of hay.

 

[Hindsight]

What a ridiculous way of doing yields

Better get used to it. Apparently as part of the USA UK post Brexit trade talks the UK will be required to adopt USA measurements.

 

[Lowland1]

Better get used to it. Apparently as part of the USA UK post Brexit trade talks the UK will be required to adopt USA measurements.

Oh no pounds and tons and acres.

 

[Hindsight]

Oh no pounds and tons and acres.

Short tons. USA gallons. Be great fun though.

 

[Lowland1]

Short tons. USA gallons. Be great fun though.

I know I just remembered that 2000 lbs a ton and 3.89 liters a gallon. Still best to start quoting yields in US tons.

 

[Pilatus]

What yield weight is displayed on ,on combine weighers in North America , bushels per acre/ha,lbs acre/ha,tons acre/ha or tonnes acre/ha

 

[Lowland1]

What yield weight is displayed on ,on combine weighers in North America , bushels per acre/ha,lbs acre/ha,tons acre/ha or tonnes acre/ha

Bushels per acre. When you weigh it in at an elevator the weight is always converted back to bushels.

 

[Dead Rabbits]

You are paid at the elevator for bushels corrected by the test weight of your crop. Don’t know why but that’s the system.

On a modern combine you can set it to whatever you want. Bushels, cwt, bags, kg