Old bulk grains historically get priced by the bushel. 200 years ago there were no scales available on every farm or even every town; but everyone could own a bu basket and fill sacks that way.
Apples or potatoes or such were sold individually to customers, and could be counted that way.
In the last 100 years every place has an accurate scale available; everything is actually sold by weight. The older grains are priced by bu still; so they take the weight, and apply the test weight and quality to the grain, and come up with an adjusted number of bushels you have in your truck.
Apples and newer crops like sunflowers they might just call per 100 weight now, or per 100 lbs.
A poor explanation of how pricing evolved.
Bushels is a measure of volume, lbs is a measure of weight. In the old days they could only accurately measure volume or count how many. Now nearly everything is actually weighed, and then some are converted back to 'good volume' amounts.
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