Muscatine

Are you arguing that it can't be done or that measuring it in the ship in the Gulf is the only (better) way to do it?

Or do you have another method?

I don't give a hoot about measuring your corn!

I don't care to do any more thinking for you.

I just enjoy pointing out your simple minded attempts at trouble making.

Oh dear Mallory.  Having trouble measuring corn?  Well in this old german kitchen the corn is measured the way old Aunt Freida used to do it.  Get yourself a five gallon bucket, fill it up a fifth of the way, and you've got yourself a gallon of corn.  Robert always used to ask which was heavier...a pound of feathers or a pound of lead.  Poor old fool never did figure out that riddle, but he surely could whip up a batch of creamed corn.  Which is why I know how to measure it.

This should help, unless the grain bin is moving (as in a Mississippi river flood, etc.):

How do I find the bushels my round bin will   hold?

(Diameter) x (Diameter )x (Depth )x (0.7854) = (cubic feet)   x ( 0.80385)= Standard Bushels

How about the peak in my round   bin?

(Diameter) x ( Diameter) x ( 0.7854) x ( 0.80385) = bushels   per foot

The height of the peak above the base divided by 3 and   multiplied times the bushels per foot = Standard Bushels

If you can not determine the height of the peak. Divide the   Diameter by 2 and multiply that times 0.4 for corn or 0.5 for soybeans. Divide   that number by 3 and multiply that times the bushels per foot = Standard   Bushels

How about my round bin which is pulled down   into a cone in the center?

Find the bushels per foot the same as the peak   above. Find the depth of the cone or use the rule of thumb given above and   multiply two thirds of that number times the bushels per   foot.

You can also take the depth at the side wall and add one   third of the height of the cone up or subtract one third of the depth of the   cone down. Then calculate the bushels as if the bin were level   across.

The rule of thumb of 0.4 times the radius of a bin for corn   or 0.5 times the radius of a bin for soybeans works for dry clean grain. If the   grain is wet or has a lot of fines the peaks and valleys will be higher and   deeper.

The test weight of the grain will affect the number of   bushels. The directions given above result in Standard (Winchester) Bushels.   Corn weighing more than 54 pounds and soybeans weighing more than 56 pounds per   bushels will have more bushels than the standard and if they weigh less there   will be less bushels. The Pack charts are too big to be placed here. If you need   that degree of accuracy talk to your County Extension office.

My grain does not lay in nice regular figures. Try to break   your bin down into several rectangles, triangles, or cones and calculate each   and add up the totals. Good luck!