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Interesting, is the term "bushel" still used? I'd have thought it was somewhat archaic by now (having only read it in that context in children's stories, as a k
by vram22 11y ago
Interesting, is the term "bushel" still used? I'd have thought it was somewhat archaic by now (having only read it in that context in children's stories, as a kid), but what do I know.
- saalweachter 11y agoIn the US, bushels are the standard measurement of grains, at least as far as farmers are concerned. Whenever I hear about relief being sent to a place with a famine, it is always tons of grain, so it definitely isn't a universal measurement. But prices and yields are still discussed in bushels. Hilariously, while the bushel started out as a volume -- 8 dry gallons, which are totally different from liquid gallons -- they are now a measurement of the weight of a specific grain at a specific moisture content. So to measure a grain, you need to measure its weight and its moisture content, convert it to its weight at the specific moisture content, and then divide it by the standard weight for the grain. So if you have a thousand pounds of corn at 20% moisture, it is just under 17 bushels, but if it were soybeans, just over 15.