According to the folks at the local Farmer's Market a bushel of shelled peas is 10lbs or should I say that's what they sell it as.
Thirty five pounds of shelled peas per bu of unshelled. Approx 8 quarts per bu of shelled peas from a bu of unshelled.
a bushel is 56 lb
56 lb
About $12.
one hamper of picked peas yields how many pound of shelled peas
I'm not sure about a gallon but I am currently growing purple hull peas and I have been selling then by the bushel and have been getting $18 for unshellled and $22 for shelled. Some people in my area (Alabama) have been getting as much as $24 and $25 a bushel. Hope this helps......Lori :)
It takes about 7.5 pounds of peas to make a bushel of peas. This means that it takes about 1 1/2 five gallon buckets of peas to make a whole bushel of peas.
Check out this website: http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/bushels.html I would think purple hull peas should be around the same as field peas. If I find out differently, I will come back and try to correct this entry.
37.27 quarts Given that 37.27 quarts does indeed make a bushel of peas, there is another point of view that needs to be considered. If you are purchasing peas directly from a farmer, you normally buy them unshelled. A bushel of unshelled peas will not give you 37.27 quarts after you shell them, far from it. Normally you can expect only about a gallon of peas (4 quarts) after shelling a bushel of peas. If however the farmer is generous, you might actually get 5 to 6 quarts. This is what is called a 'round' bushel. That is, heaped until peas fall out of a bushel basket.
25 pounds is equal to a bushel of peas that are still hulled.
I would not give my goldfish any shelled peas. The best food for them is Earthworms.
A bit of both. It used to be a volume measurment, but today its used as a weight measurment of 56 lb. The above answer is absolutely wrong. I own thousands of acres of fruit in the Indian River Fruit area and the domain name indianriverfruit.com so i should know. a 1/4 bushel of fruit as are all peck and bushel measurements is a volume thing. a 1/4 bushel of fruit will weigh 10 to 11 pounds a 1/2 bushel 20- 22 pounds a 3/4 bushel is 30 to 33 pounds and a bushel is approx 40 to 44 pounds. take a bushel basket of oranges and weigh them and you will find I am right! Hope this helps! Depends on what you are measuring or weighing---ie bushel of shelled corn is 56 lbs. bushel of southern peas is 25 lbs etc.---my 2cents.