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martin
Posted 9/17/2020 16:22 (#8500976 - in reply to #8499854)
Subject: RE: Need a little help with silage math.


I am going to take issue with this statement:

"lets say the field averaged 175bpa/7.5tpa= 23.3 tons per acre. The field should have made 151 loads. So we are off 59+- load"

I disagree with your conclusion.  When I learned math in school, I learned if you divide by a number, that is the same as multiplying by the inverse.  So,

175 bu/acre  /   7.5 ton/acre is the same as   175 bu/acre x 1 acre/7.5 tons.  

Cancel the acre units, as they offset each other, and you come up with 175 bu/7.5 tons

which =  23.3 bu/ton. 

Okay,  23.3 bushels x 56 lbs/bushel = 1305 lbs..... which surely does not = 1 ton.

?????

 

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