novaman":r8plqsbx said:
I think I am going to have to disagree on the bushels being equal. Anyone that hauled both wheat and oats knows that you can haul far more bushels of oats then one can wheat. Most of you are arguing that a bushel is a measure of volume but that certainly isn't how the elevators see it. Bushels are calculated according to weight these days.
That may be true (at the elevator), but regardless of weight, Oats weighs 34 lbs and wheat 60 lbs. You can only fit 300 bushels of oats on that same truck. Regardless of the weight difference you can only fit 300 bu on that truck.
Think of it this way, 1.25 cubic = 1 bu. So if you take a box that is 1.25 cubic feet you can only fit 1 bu in it, no matter the weight the volume is the same. Whether you fill it with feathers or lead, it would still only hold 1 bushel. The weight would be different, but the volume is still the same. And a bushel is a volume measure.
So even though the truck would hold less weight when loaded with oats, it wouldn't hold more bushels.