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Who would buy a bushel of popcorn? I would think only people who run kettle corn trailers could use that much.
 
My thoughts exactly. Or, perhaps only people that are going to plant a whole feild of popcorn. They probably wouldn't want to mess around with little seed packets from the garden section at Wal-Mart.
 
i think u mean popping corn. pop corn has no weight. who would buy a bushel anyway?? pop a cup full and you have all kinds of pop corn.
 
I brought 6500 lbs of shelled field corn today from the elevator. They divide 56 lbs, which is the standard weight that is used per bu of shelled corn, into 6500 lbs and times it their price per bu. I buy 6-7 loads a year from different sources and its always done that way. So I guess you could say I am buying by the lb, Thats the way its done everywhere as far as I know.
 
Within 3 miles of me there were 250 acres of pop corn. There were a couple of thousand acres of pop corn in this end of the county.
 
I planted a few rows of popcorn about 40 years ago. I remember that I picked it and brought some right in to pop. It was a miserable failure. I left the rest in burlap sacks out in the shop. It laid there for a few months, always intending to take it out and scatter it for the hogs to eat. One evening I loaded the sacks in the back of the truck, and on impulse took some in the house and tried again to pop it. It popped perfectly and was really good eating. Lesson learned - it needs to dry real good before it is popped.

I remember the old timers telling about a guy who raised a big patch of popcorn. His neighbor was clearing and burning some brush and had a nice fire going. The old guy was cultivating his popcorn, using a team of mules to pull the cultivator. The fire spread to the popcorn, the corn started popping, and the mules thought it was snowing and froze to death.
 
Where are you located? Ridgeway, Illinois was once considered the popcorn capital of the world.
 
When prepared why is popcorn regulated by USDA while a canned corn dish is not?
Same with apples, but not apple pie!
 
I remember the first popcorn Queen, popcorn ball I always attended, Popcorn day was always 2nd week of Saturday, later on they had tractor pulls. I marched to honor a buddy killed in Viet Nam.

Led
 
Last year we bought 3 LBS of popcorn. I've ate just over a pound of it already. I like popcorn. Can eat it by the grocery sack full.
 
Every farm harvesting video I watch, when they haul to the elevator they weigh in and out and get paid for the difference. The only time they refer to bushels is when they talk about bin storage or per/acre yield
 
When you haul grain to an elevator you get paid on the number of bushels you delivered. Your net weight is converted to bushels by dividing net weight by the standard weight for the grain you're selling, e.g. 56 for corn, 60 for soybeans, etc.

Once the number of bushels is determined the elevator makes deductions to the per bushel price for test weight, moisture, splits, and trash.
 
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