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This is done by assigning a standard weight to each commodity that is to be measured in bushels. These bushels depend on the commodities being measured, and on the moisture content of the commodity. Some of the more common ones are: Oats: US: 32 lb [7] (14.5150 kg) Canada: 34 lb [8] (15.4221 kg) UK: 38 lb [9] (17.2365 kg) Barley: 48 lb [7] (21. ...
A coomb was 16 stone (100 kg) for barley and 18 stone (110 kg) for wheat. The US grain markets quote prices as cents per bushel , and a US bushel of grain is about 61 lb (28 kg), which would approximately correspond to the 4-bushel coomb (4 × 61 lb = 244 lb ≈ 111 kg).
The following international wheat production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT database, older from International Grains Council figures from the report "Grain Market Report". The quantities of wheat in the following table are in million metric tonnes. All countries with a typical production ...
U.S. wheat production for 2024-2025 is projected at 1.971 billion bushels — up 9% from the previous year and the highest in eight years, according to the USDA. ...
The annual wheat production of the United States more than tripled in the fifty years between 1871 and 1921; it increased from about 250 million bushels in 1869–1871 to over 750 million in 1919–1921. [12]
Grown by the Pima and Maricopa tribes during the Civil war, Native Americans would sell wheat to soldiers who later constructed granaries for it, resulting in its bigger industry today. Wheat produces 100 US bushels per acre (8,700 litres per hectare) and earns the state $200–350 million annually.
In the 1870 census, he was listed as a farmer with personal property worth #300. His 159-acre farm, with 120 improved acres, was valued at $800 and produced 160 bushels of oats, 150 bushels of corn, 75 bushels of wheat and 37 bushels of rye; his livestock consisted of a horse, 3 cows,7 sheep and 8 swine.
That year, the farm produced 100 bushels of Indian corn, from the 40 acres (16 ha) cultivated. 9 acres (3.6 ha) of Indian corn produced 100 bushels. 3 acres (1.2 ha) of oats produced another forty bushels and 1-acre (0.40 ha) of rye produced fifteen bushels. One hundred and twenty-two bushels of wheat came from 9 acres (3.6 ha).