Barley Bushel Weight

Conversion value derived from canadian grain commission.

Barley bushel weight. Some other examples are. A bushel of wheat will weigh 60 pounds 27 kg. Standard grain moisture content. Or bu is an imperial and us customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity 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 in modern usage the volume is nominal with bushels denoting a mass defined differently for each commodity.

Conversion value derived from appendix a farmer s guide 1976. The equivalent test weight in the test weight conversion chart for barley is 48 8 pounds per avery bushel lb a bu. Easily convert units and weights for every type of grain bushels to pounds bu to lbs metric tons to bushels mt to bu and more. Weight crop unit avg weight lbs lbs barley bushel 48 apples bushel or carton 40 corn.

All conversion values are derived from the canada grains council 1999 statistical handbook except those noted below. Minimum weight to make no 1 grade. Rye at 56 pounds per bushel barley at 48 oat and fescue at 32 etc. A unit converter specifically for farmers.

Lbs per cubic foot at standard test wt and moisture barley. It will contain around 1 million kernels of wheat. Blueberries flat 12 pints 12 ear husked bushel 70 cranberries barrel 100 shelled bushel 56 strawberries flat 12 pints 12 hay square bale 40 50 oats bushel 32 potatoes carton sack 100 rye bushel 56 soybeans bushel 60 wheat bushel 60 asparagus crate carton 30. A bushel of barley is at the standard moisture content of 14 5 48 lbs or 1 244 ft3 of barley.

You could fit approximately 1000 bushels of wheat in a grain hopper truck which is around 60 000 pounds per load.