A bushel of shelled corn weighs 56 pounds (25.401 kilograms).
A bushel actually used to be a volumetric measurement but due to inconsistency in volumes between crops like corn, wheat or soybeans, it was changed to 60 lbs, then 56 lbs.
But for marketing purposes, the USDA specifies one bushel of dried, shelled field corn weighs 56 pounds and is at 15% moisture content. All values are based on that measurement.
Actually, a bushel of apples weigh's in at about 42 lbs. This is depending on the apple variety, i.e. smaller apples will weigh more per bushel volume and some apples are actually more dense, etc. but 42 lbs per bushel is about average. Take Care! -M Do you want to know how much it costs? Do you want to know how much it weighs? Do you wish to know about how many apples a bushel contains? Please be more specific in phrasing your question.
The understanding, from working on fruit and vegetable farms, is that a bushel is more of a volume than a weight. There is such a thing as a standard bushel, or half bushel basket that you can get from agricultural supply companies. A bushel basket is about three feet tall by about two feet wide at the top, and it gets narrower towards the bottom.
The weight in a bushel depends on what is in the bushel. A bushel is a measurement of volume and not of weight. There have been standardized numbers of how much bushels of individual types of produce weigh for marketing purposes, which makes it important to know what is contained in the bushel.
Depends on the grain or product you are measuring in bushels.
Try this, it is accurate.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/bushels.html
A bushel is a measurement used for wheat, not flour. However, a bushel of wheat weighs about sixty pounds. This would make about sixty pound of wheat flour, but only 42 pounds of white flour.
Shelled corn which meets the US minimum standard weighs 56 pounds or more per bushel, while having a moisture content of 15% or less.
54 pounds is the average weight.
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the answer is the weight of an individual acorn multiplied by the number of acorns in a bushel.
it depends on the moisture content, but at 13% moisture a bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds.
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The weight of a bushel of Cornmeal is 50 lbs.
A bushel is determined by weight not by the number. The weight for a bushel of pears is 50 pounds and a bushel of peaches is 48 pounds.
. . . is that a bushel of feathers, a bushel of cotton, a bushel of wheat, or a bushel of lead pellets? (A bushel is a volume, not a weight.)
No official weight but most common weight used is 56 lbs.
1 bushel of rough rice = 45 lbs. Rough rice is rice that has been harvested, but not milled.
A bushel is a measure of volume, not weight. a bushel of gold weighs a lot more than a bushel of cotton. It does depend on the product. International agreement has determined ... for Rye, 56lbs per bushel for Barley 48lbs for Oats, 32lbs Yellow corn, 56lbs Soya Beans, 60lbs A bushel is considered to be 1.5 cubic feet, a size which can be translated into weight according to the product
The weight of a bushel of carrots is weighted at 50 pounds.
60 pounds http://www.sizes.com/units/bushel_US_as_mass.htm
A bushel is primarily a measure of volume but can be used as a measure of weight although in the US this can vary from state to state depending on the commodity involved