Weights & Measures
Food Processing, Feed, Seed & Grain
| Weight of Bulk Materials | ||||
| 1 Bushel = 1.233 Cubic Feet - - - - - - 1 Bbl. Flour = 5 Cubic Feet | ||||
| Material | Lbs. per Cubic Foot |
Material | Lbs. per Cubic Foot |
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| Alfalfa Field Seed Alfalfa Meal Apple Seed Asparagus Seed Bakelite & similar plastics-minus 3/8" Barley - fine ground Barley Meal Barley - rolled Barley - scoured Barley Seed Beans - (all except below) - Lima - Castor - Soy - Velvet - White Beet Pulp Beet Beggarwood Blood Flour Brewers Grain-spent, dried Buckwheat - whole Buckwheat Flour Buckwheat Hulls Cabbage Seed Canary Seed Cane (see Sorghum) Carrot Seed Cauliflower Seed Celery Seed Clover Seed: - Burr - Crimson - Japan (Lespedeza) - Red - Scarlet - Sweet - hulled - Sweet - unhulled - White Dutch Cocoa - powdered Cocoa - Beans Coconut - shredded Coffee Beans - green or roasted Coffee - ground Corn: - Broom - Ground - Cracked - Field-on the cob - Field-shelled - Field-unhusked - Meal - Cob Meal - Feed Meal - Pop-ear - Pop-shelled - Sweet - Kaffir Corn Sugar Cotton Seed - dry, delinted Cotton Seed - dry, un-delinted Contton Seed - cake Cotton Seed - hulls Cotton Seed - meats Cowpeas Cranberry Seed Cucumber Seed Egg Plant Seed Egg Powder Emmer Seed Endive Seed Farina - wheat, fine Farina - wheat, fine Fescue Seed: - Chewings - Hard - Meadow - Red - Sheeps Feterita Seed Flax Seed Flax Seed Cake - linseed cake Flax Seed - meal Flour - patent - Semolina - First Clear - Second Clear - 196 lb. per Bbl. net Gelatin - granulated Germ Oil Meal Gluten Feed Gluten Meal Grass Seed: - Bent - Bermuda - Blue - Blue English - Bromus Inermus - Carpet - Dalis - Herds - Hungarian - Johnaon - Lawn - Orchard - Red Top-hulled - Red Top-unhulled - Rye-domestic - Rye-Italian - Rye-perenial, English - Sudan - Sudan-Kansas - Sudan-Texas #1 - Sudan-Texas #2 - Sudan-Texas #3 - Tall Meadow Oat - Timothy |
47-51 10-15 35-40 51 30-40 48 28 20 41 38 48 45 37 48 48 43-48 16-20 16 50 30 25-30 37-41 41 13 40 48 - 19 39 26 - 48 48 20 48 48 48 26 48 30-45 35-40 20-22 22-32 25 - 24-46 50 37-45 54-58 45 56-60 40 36 34 56 45 36-40 40-45 21 25 18-25 40-45 12 35-45 48 26-32 38-40 28 16 32 19 20 30 - 11 11 19 11 11 45 45 50 25 36 48 34 32 34 32 36 33 44 - 20 28 11-14 11-18 11 14 12 36 38-40 20-22 20 11 26 11 19 16 19 28-32 32 26 24 22 9 36-48 |
Hempseed Hominy Feed Hominy Meal Kaffir Corn & Milo Kale Seed Lentils Lespedeza: - Japan - Kobe - Sericea - hulled Lettuce Seed Malt - dry, crushed Malt - dry, whole Malt - wet or green Malt - meal Meat Meal Mill Feed Mill Run Feed - loose Millet: - Japanese - Hungarian - Tennesse Golden - Foxtail - Siberian Milo Maize - Kansas Milo Maize - Texas Muskmelon Seed Mustard Seed Oat Feed Oat Flour Oat Hulls Oatmeal Oats - crushed Oats - ground fine Oats - rolled Oats - steel cut Okra Seed Onion Seed Parsley Seed Parsnip Seed Peameal Peanut - meal Peanut - shelled Peanut - unshelled Peas: - Dried - English-smooth - English-wrinkled Pepper Seed Pumkin Seed Radish Seed Rape Seed Red Dog - wheat Rice: - Bran - Clean - Hulls - Rough - Unhulled Rutabaga Seed Rye: - Spring - Winter - Bran - Feed - Flour - Middlings - Meal Salsify Seed Soybean: - Cracked - Whole - Cake - Flakes - Hulls-ground - Meal Spinach Seed: - Bloomsdale - New Zealand Squash Seed: - Summer - Winter Sugar Beet Pulp - dry Sugar Beet Pulp - wet Sugar Cant or Beet - refined Sugar - raw Sunflower Seed Tobacco - scraps and stems Tomato Seed Turnip Seed Vetch Seed Watermelon Seed Wheat - Bran - Chaff - Cracked - Flour-loose Wheat Germ - Ground Fine - Middlings-coarse - Middlings-standard - Screenings - Shorts |
35 27 44 40-45 38 48 - 20 20 48 22 20-22 27-30 60-65 36-40 41 35 19 - 28 38 40 40 40 45 40 19 48 28 34 8 45 22 30 19 30 32 26 19 16 28 30 20-25 15-20 - 48 48 45 26 14 39 40-45 22-28 - 21 48 20 32 36 40 - 45 15-20 33 40 42 40 19 - 32-36 45-50 40-45 18-26 20 40 - 32 16 - 32 23 12-15 25-45 50-55 55-65 19 15-25 16 39 48 26 48 11-15 17-25 35 31 28 38 30 20 17-25 15 |
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| Bushel Weights | ||
| Bushel weights are shown in pounds. To obtain pounds per cubic foot, multiply bushels x .8036 To obtain cubic foot per bushel, multiply x 1.25 |
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| Alfalfa - 60 Barley - 48 Bermuda Grass - 35 Blue Grass - 22 Bluegrass Seed - 44 Bran - 20 Brome Grass - 14 Buckwheat - 52 Cane Seed - 50 Carrot Seed - 50 Castor Bean - 46 Chickpea (Garbonzo) - 58 Clover Seed - 60 Clover-Sweet - 60 Coca Bean - 38-50 Corn - 56 Corn-Ear Husked - 70 Corn Meal - 48 Cotton Seed - 33 Fescue - 20-27 Grain Sorghum - 56 Hemp Seed - 44 |
Kafir Seed Corn - 56 Kapok Seed - 40 Lentil Seed - 60 Lespedeza Seed - 25 Lima Beans - 60 Malt - 38 Meadow Fox Tail - 25-30 Millet - 50 Mustard Seed - 60 Navy Beans - 60 Niger Seed - 47 Oats - 32 Oat Groats - 50 Orchard Grass - 14 Peanut-Spanish Unshelled - 30 Peanut-Virginia Unshelled - 22 Peas-Dry - 60 Popcorn - 56 Poppy Seed - 46 Rape Seed - 60 Red Fox Seed - 40 |
Rice Bran - 20 Rice Hulls - 8 Rice Hulls-Ground - 16 Rice-Rough - 45 Rutabaga - 50 Rye - 56 Ryegrass - 20-27 Safflower - 56 Sesame Seed - 46 Sorghum Seed - 50 Soybean - 60 Soybean Hulls - 19 Soybean Hulls-Ground - 27 Soybean-Milled - 50 Sugarbeet Seed - 23 Sunflower Seed - 32 Sunflower Hulks & Meats - 15 Timothy - 45 Tomato Seed - 45 Turnip Seed - 42 Vetch - 60 Wheat - 60 |
