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As you can see, there is a lot of variation in this. :) Corn is supposed to be sold by volume, a bu. However, most weigh the load, and convert it to a 'standard' bu, which is 56 lbs of shell corn, at good test weight (54 lb or better), at 14.5% moisture (sometimes 15, sometimes 15.5%). Ear corn is figured the same, but at 70lbs per bu to make up for the weight of cobs to get back to the 56 lb bu. However, ear corn really isn't figured out by the volume so well. It depends a lot on the settling and such, size of the ears, how full the ears are, etc. So, are you starting from selling this corn by weight, or by volume? When I put shell corn on my 210 bu gravity box, with wet 22% moisture shell corn, 52# test weight, it figures out to 180 bu of 'real' corn if I'm lucky - and that is peaked pretty high, as the damp corn stacks higher. With 15% moisture, 60lb test weight shell corn, it will figure out to 225bu per wagon sometimes. Yet, both loads of ear corn are, by _volume_, a 210 bu load..... ... Big difference on actual, weighed corn vs the 'bu' of corn.... Ear corn is just the same, there is a lot of variation depending on the quality of the corn. Not sure I answered any questions, but probably gave you more to consider as you try to value a product sold by volume, but priced on a weight/quality basis..... Very hard to make it a level playing field. --->Paul
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