**TECHNICAL NOTES**

**USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service**

**Boise, Idaho**

TN AGRONOMY NO. 28 June 17, 1987

This Technical Note was prepared by Floyd G. Bailey, State Conservation
Agronomist, Boise, Idaho

Weight Per Bushel of Farm Crop Seeds

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  Crop                   Weight/Bushel   Crop                   Weight/Bushel
                         Pounds                                 Pounds

  Legumes                                Vegetables and Nuts    
                                         (Seed)                 

                                                                

  Alfalfa                60              Hickory Nut            52

  Birdsfoot Trefoil      60              Onion Seed             56

  Black Medic            60              Potatoes, Irish        60

  Clover (all except     60              Potato, Sweet          50
  Burr)                                                         

  Clover, Burr           12              Pecans                 

  Cowpeas                60              Walnuts                55

  Crownvetch             55                                     

  Crotaloria             40              Grasses                

  Lespedeza, Common                      Bermuda Grass          40
  (Unhulled)                                                    

  Lespedeza, Sericea     60              Bluestem, Big          10

  Lespedeza, Sericea     30-40           Blue Grass             14-32
  (Unhulled)                                                    

  Soybeans               60              Brome Grass (Smooth)   11-16

  Sweet Clover           60              Brome Grass (Field)    

  Velvet Beans           60              Crested Wheat Grass    22

  Vetch                  60              Dallas Grass           10

                                         Fescue, Meadow         24

  Grains                                 Fescue, Tall           24

                                         Fescue, Red            14

  Barley                 48              Fescue, Sheep          14

  Corn, shelled          56              Johnson, Grass         28

  Corn, Ear without      70              Millet, German         50
  husks                                                         

  Corn, Ear with husks   72              Millet, Hungarian      48

  Grain Sorghums         50-60           Millet, Japanese       35

  Oats                   32              Orchard Grass          14-24

  Rice, rough            45              Redtop                 14-40

  Rye                    56              Reed Canary Grass      30-44

  Wheat                  60              Reed Foxtail           7

                                                                

                                                                

                                                                

  Crop                   Weight/Bushel   Crop                   Weight/Bushel
                         Pounds                                 Pounds

  Grasses (Continued)                    Vegetables             

                                                                

  Ryegrass               24              Beets                  60

  Sudan Grass            40              Carrots                50

  Switchgrass            40              Cucumbers              48

  Tall Oat Grass         14              Parsnips               50

  Timothy                45              Peas                   60

                                         Tomatoes               56

  Miscellaneous Field                    Turnips                55
  Crops                                                         

                                                                

  Beans, Castor          46                                     

  Beans, Field           60                                     

  Beans, Lima            56                                     

  Broom Corn             48                                     

  Buckwheat              48-52                                  

  Cane Seed              50                                     

  Corn, Pop (Shelled)    56                                     

  Cotton Seed, Fuzzy     32                                     

  Flax                   56                                     

  Hemp                   44                                     

  Rape                   50                                     

  Sunflower              32                                     
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