Allen, M., " How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Crunching the numbers on alternative fuels ", Popular Mechanics, May 2006, pp. 74-81.M. Allen: How far can you drive on a bushel...
So, imagine you have a farm that can produce and deliver 500 bushels of corn per quarter. The price for one bushel in the first quarter was $157.56. In the second quarter, one bushel was $159.25, and your farm produced and delivered 505 bushels. First, determine the percent change in p...
In 1965 great Britain changed its standards and units to decimals but before that time they used the standard of Imperial Conversions. The US standards ad units depend on the Imperial system of Britain. But the transformation and conversion are very much confused and problematic between both. Con...
Our example begins with a farmer planting winter wheat in the late fall. This wheat is not just a crop; it's the farmer's savings resulting from much labor and contains hopes for a future livelihood. However, the farmer knows that the price of wheat at harvest time next summer can chang...
How bent or flattened the corn is and whether a combine can harvest it. There are ways to harvest flattened corn but it can be tedious and tends to have higher bushel loss. Where and if breakage occurred. If breakage happened at the bottom of the stalk, then yield is likely fully lost...
a good, meaty stock with them. I ran two canners at a time which was all I could handle alone. I have a vision that, in the apocalypse, I’ll single handily can all the meat in my freeze. Well. Maybe not. This much canning is better done in a group. I am able to can at ...
If you say, "Hey, I'm trying this new thing. I know you're a little skeptical of this no-till stuff, but let me just show you how my yields have improved, how much my soil's improved." We've got to be more inclusive and kinder to one another. So that's rea...
Professor: Pay attention little Pigs. Porky, please tell us if a bushel of bright juicy corn is $1.50 a bushel, how much are four bushels? Porky!Porky: (wakes up from sleeping) Oh, I am sorry teacher. What was the question?Professor: Porky, will you ever learn to pay attention? (...
One little trick regarding using the caulking. If you mix a little cornflour into it, it will go off in the mould much quicker. With a larger or well seaed mould, the caulking could take weeks or never go off in the centre. The cornflour doesn't affect durability but it does carry...
Next, look inside the furrow. The good thing about carrying this amount of weight is you’re achieving a very clean open seed furrow environment. You’re going to have a good consistent environment for each seed in that furrow. The problem with carrying this much weight is that when you...