Convert between all major agricultural units — land area, crop weight and bushels, grain storage volume, irrigation flow and pressure, application rates, and livestock units. Dynamic bushel weights adjust by commodity.
Convert between all major agricultural and metric units — land area, crop weight and bushel equivalents, liquid volume, length and distance, temperature, and application rates. Covers the unit conversions most commonly needed in farming, grain merchandising, irrigation, and agronomy: acres to hectares, bushels to metric tonnes, gallons per acre to litres per hectare, and more. Useful for farmers, students, agronomists, and international grain traders.
Convert between all major agricultural area units
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Agriculture developed separately across different countries and centuries, leading to a patchwork of measurement systems. The US uses acres, bushels, pounds, and gallons — all pre-metric units with deep historical roots. Most of the world uses hectares, tonnes, kilograms, and liters. Even within the US, different commodities use different units: potatoes are sold by the hundredweight (CWT), corn by the bushel, hay by the ton, and irrigation water by acre-feet. This converter bridges those systems for farmers, students, and international users working across unit conventions.
1 hectare = 2.47105 acres. Conversely, 1 acre = 0.404686 hectares. A standard quarter section of 160 acres equals 64.75 hectares.
A bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds (25.40 kg) per USDA standard test weight. Soybeans and wheat are 60 lbs/bu (27.22 kg). Barley is 48 lbs/bu. Oats are 32 lbs/bu. Use the commodity selector in this converter to apply the correct weight automatically.
1 liter per second = 15.85 US gallons per minute (GPM). Center pivot irrigation systems in the US are typically rated in GPM, while metric regions use L/s or m³/h. 1 m³/h = 4.40 GPM.
A short ton (US ton) = 2,000 pounds = 907.18 kg. A metric tonne = 1,000 kg = 2,204.62 pounds. A long ton (UK) = 2,240 pounds = 1,016.05 kg. When trading grain internationally, metric tonnes are the standard. Always confirm which ton is being used in contracts.
Multiply lb/acre by 1.12085 to get kg/ha. For example, 100 lb/acre × 1.12085 = 112.09 kg/ha. To convert kg/ha back to lb/acre, multiply by 0.89218.
1 acre-foot = 12 acre-inches. An acre-foot is the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot (325,851 US gallons / 1,233.48 m³). Irrigation is commonly measured in acre-inches per season or per application.
One Animal Unit (AU) is defined as a 1,000-pound mature beef cow. Other livestock are expressed as fractions or multiples: 1 dairy cow ≈ 1.4 AU, 1 horse ≈ 1.25 AU, 1 sheep ≈ 0.2 AU, 1 market hog ≈ 0.4 AU. AU is used in grazing management to calculate stocking rates and carrying capacity.
1 L/ha = 0.1069 US gal/acre. Conversely, 1 gal/acre = 9.354 L/ha. This conversion is commonly needed when calibrating sprayers using metric application rates for US equipment or vice versa.