Could someone tell me the weight in pounds of a cubic foot of wheat, oats, or soybeans. I'm trying to figure the capacity in bushels of a grain truck bed.

-- Red Neck (sesch@csa.com), February 08, 2002

Answers

Response to wheat weight

A bushel is right at 1.5 cubic feet.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), February 08, 2002.

Response to wheat weight

Wheat is around 60 #'s per bushel...so 40 #s per square foot. Oats are around 32 to 34 #'s so 21 or so #s per square foot. Don't know soybeans. We usually get those per cwt.

-- Nan (davidl41@ipa.net), February 08, 2002.

Response to wheat weight

Soybeans are 60# per bu, like wheat. Shell corn is 56#. They say about 70-72# of ear corn gives you 1 bu of shell corn.

Oats is legally at 32#. However, you often get docked unless it is 38# or more per bu. Oats can be all over the place, from 28-42# bu, so the weight per volume can change a lot! The other crops are generally withing a couple lbs of the norm.

--->Paul

-- paul (ramblerplm@hotmail.com), February 09, 2002.