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| Get your wife's measuring cup and put 16 ounces of unpoped popcorn in it. Then fill it up to 16 ounces of popped. You see that weight ounces don't match fluid/volume ounces. Same with bushels, gallons, etc. Test weight is only a measure of how much weight per volume, which is a variable figure. When you scale in at the coop they aren't measuring volume, they are measuring weight. Your combine yield monitor and auger cart also. The coop only wants weight and figures it for you LAST on the bottom of your scale sheet to a standard 56# bushels at 15%. They only put test weight on your tickets to give you a warm fuzzy, or to give you a dock if it's too low. It would be a lot less confusing figuring yield by pound at specified moisture.
Measuring a bin gets you volume bushels, that would be taken x test weight to get total weight, that could then be divided by 56 # to get coop standard bushels in the bin. So your 10,000 bushel bin level may have more or less than 10,000 coop bu. at 15%. You could have 70# TW corn, but the coop is gonna call that more than a bushel... 70/56 and should pay you accordingly.
math problem for you guys: assuming 15%, which one will the coop pay me more for:
#1 200 volume bushels @ 56#/bu
or
#2 186.666 volume bushels @ 60 #/bu
Not trying to sound arrogant with this, just trying to put this baby to bed.
Edited by NC Iowa 8/24/2017 16:04
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