"Joseph B. Reid" wrote:
>
> John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 21997:
>
> > The real odd thing is that food and other
> >commodities is measured in tonnes for the world and export markets, but
> >still in bushels in the US. If you check the newspapers for pricing of
> >corn, and other vegetables, you will see it is in dollars or cents per
> >bushel. It is another of those cases where unit confusion is desired.
> >
> >John
>
> The really odd thing is that volume in bushels was recorded at every
> stage from delivery to the grain elevator to loading on the export
> boat, but was measured by mass at every stage, and the mass converted
> to bushels using a different conversion factor for each grain. I
> assume that that absurd practice still goes on in the US grain trade.
That's the way it was in the US when I looked at it a year or two ago.
Then, from silos/elevators to railroad car or ship, it was done in tons
(of various types).
Jim
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