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Measurement units used in USA
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"fb" wrote in : For the "translation" of an agricultural program from Dutch/English to American I am looking for units used by American farmers. - How do they measure length / width of a field (in yards or feet)? - How do they measure the area (size)? In acre with decimals? - How do they measure Yield? - How do they measure applied products (in fluid/dry ounces per acre)? Are there any other US units that are different from the metric (SI) units? Please reply to Area of a farm or fields is expressed in acres such as my place: 9.4 acres with 7.4 tillable (arable) acres. Some areas aof the US, the Midwest & Great Plains, we might talk about a section of land, which is 640 acres, or multiple sections. Depending on the product applied, the measurement may be gallons, pounds, tons, or ounces per acre. Manure usually is gallon or tons per acre, fertilizer will usually be pounds and herbicides or insecticides in ounces or pounds per acre. But be aware that the Yankee gallon is smaller than the Pommie one. See http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/appxc/appxc.htm "General Tables of Units of Measurement" In particular this section: quoting The present British gallon and bushel--known as the "Imperial gallon" and "Imperial bushel" are, respectively, about 20 percent and 3 percent larger than the United States gallon and bushel. The Imperial gallon is defined as the volume of 10 avoirdupois pounds of water under specified conditions, and the Imperial bushel is defined as 8 Imperial gallons. Also, the subdivision of the Imperial gallon as presented in the table of British apothecaries fluid measure differs in two important respects from the corresponding United States subdivision, in that the Imperial gallon is divided into 160 fluid ounces (whereas the United States gallon is divided into 128 fluid ounces), and a "fluid scruple" is included. /quoting Note: nist http://nist.gov/ is the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and has a lot of stuff that might be useful to frans. I suggest using Google (Advanced Search) to search the site by using the restriction Domain/Only/nist.gov in the search criteria. Cheers, Phred. -- LID |
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