Posted by john in la on October 07, 2022 at 17:13:19 from (97.80.68.11):
First let me say I am not to worried about the weights so if I am a little off on my figures bear with me.
When I think of a bushel I think of this. Its only a measure of volume. Usually 5.5 to 7 dozen blue crabs depending on what size the crabs are.
From reading here I have learned a bushel of shelled whole corn is 56 lbs. I realize the moisture content of the corn can change the weight. So this tells me when I go to the feed store and buy a 50 lb bag of corn I am getting a little less than a bushel and will not quite fill this basket.
Now here is where I get confused.
If I go to the feed store and buy a 50 lb of cracked corn. Still a little less than 56 lbs and we did not add or subtract any thing so it should still be a little less than a bushel. But how does cracking corn change the volume. Will this 50 lb bag of cracked corn over fill the basket or be less than the whole corn because of less air space. I'm thinking the basket will be less full.
Now we move to ear corn. I'm picking corn out my garden or I go to the farmers market and buy a bushel of corn. It is my understanding you guys figure corn on the cob in the amount it would take to make a bushel of shelled corn. So we are talking may more than a bushel of ear corn by volume.
But lets convert it the other way. If I got a bushel of husked ear corn by volume how much corn do I really have. A third of a bushel by volume or 18 lbs of corn.
How about corn sold at the farmers market with most of the husk still on the ear. Less than a quarter of a bushel of corn I can eat or maybe 10 lbs of corn.
I realize you may only be guessing at the answers because most of you do not figure corn this way.
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