page_title: Bushel
hierarchical_section_title: Bushel
caption_attribution_description: English: Government of Queensland No.1 Standard Bushel. Brass imperial bushel standard measure. Made in London in 1878 by L. Oertling.
context_page_description: A bushel is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. 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.
context_section_description: A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 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.
caption: Queensland Government Standard Imperial Bushel. Queensland Museum
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