what is bushel

A bushel is a unit of volume used to measure agricultural products such as wheat, corn, and beans. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings, 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agricultural products, such as wheat. In modern usage, the volume is nominal, with bushels denoting a mass defined differently for each commodity. The name "bushel" is also used to translate similar units in other measurement systems. Bushels are commonly used for units of mass or weight rather than of volume. Some of the more customary items where you will see bushels used to measure weight are oats, barley, malted barley, corn, wheat, and soybeans. The modern American or US bushel is a variant of the Winchester bushel, which is the volume of a cylinder 18.5 in (470 mm) in diameter and 8 in (200 mm) high, and is rounded to exactly 2150.42 cubic inches.