Grain weight converter
Convert bushels to tonnes and back. A bushel is a volume, so pick the crop: wheat and oats weigh very differently.
That's 1.09× as much as a truckload, while a rail wagon is 3.3× more. That is enough wheat for roughly 38,880 loaves of bread.
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Bushel weights are the trade standards at standard moisture. Wet grain weighs more per bushel and is discounted accordingly.
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Wheat: 36.74 bushels to the tonne
A wheat bushel is 27.22 kg, so a tonne is 36.74 bushels. Corn is 39.37 per tonne, and oats 68.9.
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A basket, then a law
The bushel began as a physical basket in medieval England. When grain went to market by weight, each crop got a legal bushel weight instead.
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The crop changes everything
Converting oats with wheat’s figure overstates the weight by 87%. Contracts always name the crop for this reason.
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About grain measures
American grain markets trade in bushels, a volume of about 35 liters. Since a volume of wheat and a volume of oats weigh differently, the trade fixes a standard weight per bushel for each crop: 60 lb for wheat, 56 for corn, 32 for oats.