About half of the wheat grown in the United States is used domestically. In , the state of Kansas was the largest wheat producer in the United States with North Dakota a close second. Kansas is number one in flour milling in the United States. Kansas produces enough wheat each year to bake 36 billion loaves of bread and enough to feed everyone in the world, over six billion people, for about 2 weeks.
An acre of Kansas wheat produces enough bread to feed nearly 9, people for one day. One bushel of wheat contains approximately one million individual kernels. One bushel of wheat weighs approximately 60 pounds. One bushel of wheat yields approximately 42 pounds of white flour OR 6 0 pounds of whole-wheat flour. A bushel of wheat yields 42 one-and-a-half pound commercial loaves of white bread OR about 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread. There is approximately 16 ounces of flour in a one-and-a-half pound loaf of bread.
The first bagel rolled into the world in when a baker from Vienna Austria was thankful to the King of Poland for saving Austria from Turkish invaders. Never refrigerate bagels or any bread product. If that sounds like a lot of gluten — it is! The average American eats sandwiches in a year. By that math, the entire population of the United States more than If you prefer Wheaties to toast in the morning, one bushel of wheat can make approximately 45 boxes of wheat flaked cereal.
The entire Kansas wheat crop could then make 15 billion boxes of cereal. That means each of the 2, athletes at the Winter Olympics could be featured on more than 5 million boxes of Wheaties. Better yet, the approximate 60, Kansas farmers could have more than , of their own boxes of Wheaties!
Like math? While the United States uses bushels to measure wheat, many other countries use metric tons. One metric ton equals Have fun calculating! Posted July 22, A Bushel, A Basket At its simplest, a bushel is a unit of measurement. The Numerical Grind. Some other examples are: Rye at 56 pounds per bushel, barley at 48, oat and fescue at 32, etc. When grain density is lower than the accepted standard low test weight , more volume is needed to store and transport a given weight of grain, thus increasing storage and transport costs.
Different grades of each grain have different standard test weights. For example, No. Test weight is determined on each load of grain sold by weighing a known volume of the grain. If the weight is lower than the acceptable range, the sale is "docked" on a percentage basis. The seller of grain with test weight greater than the acceptable range is usually not rewarded for a superior product. The test weight is also used in quality standards for small grains like soft red winter wheat, barley, and oats, but soybean grades are not impacted by test weight.
Other factors, such as cracked kernels, foreign materials, splits, and heat damaged kernels also contribute to grading standards.
The details of how test weight differs between grades for corn and more common small grains can be seen in Table 1. Varieties of a crop often vary in their inherent test weight.
Two common causes of low test weights are:. Grain is seldom sold at the standard moisture content soybean—13 percent, corn— Multiplying the weight of the wet grain by 0. For example: pounds of soybeans at 18 percent grain moisture would become pounds of grain at 13 percent moisture X 0. While the 56 pound per bushel test weight for corn is based on a moisture content of If grain is dryer than the standard, that same equation can be used to calculate the increased weight that should be credited to the seller, although that calculation is seldom made and the seller is not usually rewarded for the low moisture content.
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