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North Central Indiana | That’s okay, you can cringe! I cringe at the other side of the argument! You can try to convince me otherwise but then I’ll point to the fact that your combine mass flow sensor also measures bushels harvested by the weight not volume and a well calibrated yield monitor will display an accurate yield by weight not volume. In fact I’ll point to sprayer rate controllers that work the opposite way as proof. If I spray 20 gallons of water at 8 pounds and change or 20 gallons of 28 at 10 pounds and change did I spray the same amount or different? The same of course because that’s a volumetric meter. Regardless of weight a gallon takes up the same space. In the same vein, regardless of volume a bushel always weighs 56#.
Unless you sell your corn at the local farmers market in bushel baskets and always fill the baskets to the same level. Then you would want lower test weight corn so you can sell more volume of corn. But since the elevator buys pounds of corn test weight doesn’t change your bushels | |
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Part two on corn characteristics
