What is a harvest bushel?

Answer 1

The simple answer is that it has a volume of a bushel.

A bushel is about 35 liters or about one and a quarter cubic feet.

The imperial bushel is about 3% larger.

As for the actual dimensions of a bushel basket, I would have to get back to you on that, but I would guess about 18" diameter and a foot tall.

Answer 2

A bushel us a unit of dry volume, usually subdivided into eight local gallons in the systems of Imperial units and US customary unites. It is used for volumes of dry commodities, not liquids, most often in agriculture.

1 US bushel = 8 corn/dry gallons = 2150.42 cu in = 35.23907016688 litres ≈ 9.309177 wine/liquid gallons. The original definition was the volume of a cylinder 18.5 inches in diameter and 8 inches high, which gives an irrational number of cubic inches or litres, but later this bushel was redefined as 2150.42 cubic inches, about 1 part per million less.

1 Imperial bushel = 36.36872 litres = 8 Imperial gallons ≈ 2219.35546 cu. in.

1 bushel = 4 pecks

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.[2] 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 measured and the moisture content. Some of the more common ones are:

Oats: 32 lb = 14.51495584 kg (US)

Barley: 48 lb = 21.77243376 kg

Malted Barley = 34 lb = 15.42214058 kg

Shelled maize (corn) at 15.5% moisture by weight: 56 lb = 25.40117272 kg

Wheat at 13.5% moisture by weight and soybeans at 13% moisture by weight: 60 lb = 27.2155422 kg

Other specific values are defined (and those definitions may vary within different jurisdictions, including from state to state in the United States) for other grains, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables, coal, hair, and many other commodities.

Under the America COMPETES Act, the United States is to phase out units such as the bushel and replace them with the metric system as used for all purposes in the rest of the world, and for all scientific and technical purposes world wide. It is therefore important to know how the bushel relates to the metric equivalent, and whether the bushels are used as units of mass or units of volume.

The name "bushel" has also been used to translate non-US units of a similar size and sometimes shared origin, like the German "Scheffel".

Answer 3

A bushel basket is a basket that will hold a bushel (64 pints) of goods. Bushel baskets are commonly woven out of thin strips of wood and has either handles on the side or a looped handle over the top to make it easy to carry.

Answer 4

A bushel is not a unit of length, rather it is a measure of dry volume, usually used in agriculture for the measurement of fruits, vegetables and grains. A bushel in the US measure is 2150.42 cubic inches, but is more typically measured in a bushel basket or box.

1 bushel =4 pecks = 8 dry gallons

On the commodity or trading markets, standard weights are now assigned to bushels of each individual item. For example: a bushel of soybeans is assigned the weight of 60 lbs, whereas a bushel of oats is 32 lbs. These standards may vary from market to market and from state to state, but each area has a standard.

Answer 5

A bushel is a measure of volume equal to about 36 litres.

A bushel of corn would be enough corn to fill a container one bushel in size.

Answer 6

A bushel of rice is 45 pounds

Answer 7

56 lbs