Editing Bushel (section)

==Weight==

[[File:Bushel Table of States.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A table of weights from the secretaries of the different states, showing the number of pounds which their laws recognize as a bushel of different articles, {{circa| 1854}}.]]

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 elevator]]s, and for reports of grain production, are all units of weight.<ref name=G4020>{{cite web |url=http://extension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/crops/g04020.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525150336/http://extension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/crops/g04020.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 May 2007 |title=Tables for Weights and Measurement: Crops |author=William J. Murphy |publisher=University of Missouri Extension |access-date=18 December 2008 }}</ref> 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 on the moisture content of the commodity. Some of the more common ones are:

* [[Oat]]s:
** US: 32&nbsp;lb<ref name="G4020" /> ({{cvt|32|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})
** Canada: 34&nbsp;lb<ref>Marketing Oats in Canada http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/sis10952</ref> ({{cvt|34|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})
** UK: 38&nbsp;lb<ref>{{Google books|id=epEBAAAAQAAJ|title=Manual of Commerce|page=145|text=The Board of Trade rates are}}</ref> ({{cvt|38|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})
* [[Barley]]: 48&nbsp;lb<ref name="G4020" /> ({{cvt|48|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})
* [[Malted barley]]: 34&nbsp;lb ({{cvt|34|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})
* Shelled [[maize]] (corn) at 15.5% moisture by weight: 56&nbsp;lb<ref name="G4020" /> ({{cvt|56|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})
* [[Wheat]] at 13.5% moisture by weight: 60&nbsp;lb<ref name="G4020" /> ({{cvt|60|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})
* [[Soybeans]] at 13% moisture by weight: 60&nbsp;lb<ref>{{cite web |title=Calculating Harvest Yields |url=https://purr.purdue.edu/publications/1600/serve/1/3332 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=2021-09-25 }}</ref> ({{cvt|60|lb|kg|sigfig=6|disp=out}})

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.

Government policy in the United States is to phase out units such as the bushel and replace them with [[metric system|metric]] mass equivalents.<ref>{{cite web |title=48 CFR § 611.002-70 - Metric system implementation: US 1988 law on metrification |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/48/611.002-70 |website=Cornell Law School |location= Ithaca, New York |access-date=2021-09-25 }}</ref>