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Corn prices are now up about 10% over the past month. Iowa farmer Caleb Hamer grabbed his phone and dialed a local corn buyer this week, eager to sell his grain as prices climbed to their highest ...
The Assize of Bread and Ale credited to Henry III, c. 1266, defined this bushel in terms of the wine gallon, [2] while the c. 1300 Assize of Weights and Measures usually credited to Edward I or II defined the London bushel in terms of the larger corn gallon. [3]
The dry gallon's implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches (469.9 mm) in diameter and 8 inches (203.2 mm) in depth, making it an irrational number of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an ...
Cornmeal is a meal (coarse flour) ground from dried corn (maize). It is a common staple food and is ground to coarse, medium, and fine consistencies, but it is not as fine as wheat flour can be. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Mexico and Louisiana, very finely ground cornmeal is referred to as corn flour .
Food prices in the U.S. rose nearly 11% from 2021 to 2022, the largest year-to-year increase in more than 40 years. Although food inflation has somewhat leveled off at nearly 4% in 2023, many...
In Scotland, the peck was used as a dry measure until the introduction of imperial units as a result of the Weights and Measures Act 1824.The peck was equal to about 9 litres (1.98 Imp gal) (in the case of certain crops, such as wheat, peas, beans and meal) and about 13 litres (2.86 Imp gal) (in the case of barley, oats and malt).
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said it seized more than 13 pounds of suspected fentanyl after a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper stopped a vehicle in Carson County.
By the end of the 18th century, there were three definitions of the gallon in common use: The corn gallon, or Winchester gallon, of about 268.8 cubic inches (≈ 4.405 L), The wine gallon, or Queen Anne's gallon, which was 231 cubic inches [54] (≈ 3.785 L), and; The ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (≈ 4.622 L).