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Aberdeen MS | I've pushed the local elevator manager many times on the "bushels" I get credited for at the scale.
He is on a 56# unit calling it a bushel, I'm on the "bushel basket" bushel saying it weighs what the test weight says it should weigh. A bushel is volume measure, not weight measure.
Last time I got into it with him, he closed the convo by saying it won't be long before all is sold by the 100# weight. That was 5 years ago...LOL. I wish it would happen, IMO would then take away a little of the "nibbling" the grain industry does coming up with ways to say your grain needs to be docked $X.XX because it didn't do YY per bushel.
I think like you do Ron...... a bushel is a bushel is a bushel. Those bushels will weigh differently from year to year and field to field. I just have to forget my "school learnin" for years back and get with the program on the "new school". A bushel of corn weighs 56# and has test weights that vary.
Only thing about the test weights, it provides a means for dockage like I mentioned before, but it does nothing for a premium. | |
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corn yield estimate?
