Posted by paul on October 18, 2012 at 09:26:05 from (76.77.196.231):
In Reply to: Grain bin capacity? posted by Dave from MN on October 18, 2012 at 07:43:24:
That 1400bu would sound about right for that size bin.
Typically you will get less that bu of beans in that bin - here in MN beans tend to test lightweight.
This year esp, you cold have gotten more corn than that in the bin, as corn was testing 61-62.5 testweight for me. _However_ the volume calculation of the bin won't account for heavier corn, so unless the took a test weight & accounted for that, it won't show up.
I got 375 bu of corn on my truck this fall, had it piled higher & got 333bu of beans on the truck. Couple years ago when corn test weight was barely 50, I couldn't hardly get 300bu on the truck..
We live in an odd world where a bu is a volume measurement, but any time you sell grain the take the weight & moisture of it and convert to an 'ideal' bu.... So we never really know what we have.
If you are familiar with your wagons then you can guess what they hold. If you are new at this, typically you can't get on a wagon what the manufacturer rates it at based on volume - they get them heaping full to the corners in their rating.
Oneyear I filled my bin - about the size of yours - with beans, the govt guy measured it and said so & so many bu. I hauled it to the elevator in spring, and the coop guy was nice to me, the beans were weighing light enough to dock but they wanted beans that summer so he gave me the accepted weight on the ticket.
Well, when you did the math, it got all messed up, I came up with less bu that the govt guy estimated - because of the weight difference of what my beans really were vs what the coop wrote down. FSA wasn't worried about it, they said happens all the time, but had me a little anxious there for a bit.
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