drill conversion quarts to lbs

Suitera

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Hello,
I am using an old McCormick drill to plant annual rye grass along with other grasses and legumes. The rye grass rate is roughly 10-15lbs per acre drilling. The manual gives me quarts and bushel peck and gallon. I know rye grass is about 56lbs per bushel and there are 32 quarts in a bushel. I figure 4 quarts is 7 lbs 8 quarts is 14lbs. Am I on the right track or not really? Any help would be appreciated.
 
Sounds good, but in my experience with many different drills over many years, once you drill out some seed over a test strip of known acres and figure the seed used the feed rate will need some finessing.

And if the drill has two or more feed rate settings likely they will be "off" from each other by more than you might think when the seeding rate is well calibrated, in many cases.
 

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