[SampleMan]

Because produce presents problems of both weight and volume, keeping bushels by weight is a good system.

If you go to an orchard and pay to pick your own, you will likely pay by volume. However, when that same orchard sells to a wholesaler by the truckload it makes far more sense to sell by weight.

Also, grain and produce can vary a great deal on size. Thus the amount of empty space in a bushel basket would vary greatly. A bushel basket of large kernels would make less wheat than a bushel basket of small kernels.

[IYAS9YAS]

I understand it fully. You need to have both measurements there.

I forgot my upbringing. Dang it.