How much does a bushel weight?

Answer 1

A bushel of shelled corn weighs 56 pounds (25.401 kilograms).

A bushel actually used to be a volumetric measurement but due to inconsistency in volumes between crops like corn, wheat or soybeans, it was changed to 60 lbs, then 56 lbs.

Somewhere between 50 and 100 pounds. Yeah, that sounds like a pretty big variance, and it is. The key variable here is the moisture content of the corn. At 5% it would weight 49.81 pounds. At 50% moisture, it would weight 94.64 pounds.

But for marketing purposes, the USDA specifies one bushel of dried, shelled field corn weighs 56 pounds and is at 15% moisture content. All values are based on that measurement.

Answer 2

Actually, a bushel of apples weigh's in at about 42 lbs. This is depending on the apple variety, i.e. smaller apples will weigh more per bushel volume and some apples are actually more dense, etc. but 42 lbs per bushel is about average. Take Care! -M Do you want to know how much it costs?  Do you want to know how much it weighs?  Do you wish to know about how many apples a bushel contains?  Please be more specific in phrasing your question.

Answer 3

The understanding, from working on fruit and vegetable farms, is that a bushel is more of a volume than a weight. There is such a thing as a standard bushel, or half bushel basket that you can get from agricultural supply companies. A bushel basket is about three feet tall by about two feet wide at the top, and it gets narrower towards the bottom.

Answer 4

The weight in a bushel depends on what is in the bushel. A bushel is a measurement of volume and not of weight. There have been standardized numbers of how much bushels of individual types of produce weigh for marketing purposes, which makes it important to know what is contained in the bushel.

Answer 5

Depends on the grain or product you are measuring in bushels.

Try this, it is accurate.

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/bushels.html

Answer 6

A bushel is a measurement used for wheat, not flour. However, a bushel of wheat weighs about sixty pounds. This would make about sixty pound of wheat flour, but only 42 pounds of white flour.

Answer 7

Shelled corn which meets the US minimum standard weighs 56 pounds or more per bushel, while having a moisture content of 15% or less.

Answer 8

54 pounds is the average weight.

Answer 9

2 pounds

Answer 10

58 pounds