It's Easy To Order Another Copy! Just dial 1-800-999-6779. Toll free in the United States and Canada. Other areas, please call 1-301-725-7937. Ask for Weights, Measures, and Conversion Factors for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products (AH-697). The cost is $11.00 per copy. For non-U.S. addresses (including Canada), add 25 percent. Charge your purchase to your Visa or MasterCard, or we can bill you. Or send a check or purchase order (made payable to ERS-NASS) to: ERS-NASS P.O. Box 1608 Rockville, MD 20849-1608. We'll fill your order by first-class mail. Weights, Measures, and Conversion Factors for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products. Economic Research Service in cooperation with the Agricultural Marketing Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Handbook No. 697. Abstract This handbook is a compilation of weights, measures, and conversion factors used for agricultural commodities and their products. Several of the conversion factors and values shown in this handbook can be applied to many commodities. Some factors and values relate to specific commodities or products. This handbook supersedes Statistical Bulletin No. 616, Conversion Factors and Weights and Measures for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products (1979). When feasible, general purpose tables were updated to reflect changes in agricultural production and marketing. Considerable emphasis was given to metric measures. Keywords: Weights, measures, conversion factors, U.S. measures, metric measures. Supersedes SB-616, Conversion Factors and Weights and Measures for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products, 1979. Washington, DC 20005-4788 June 1992 Table Yield of trimmed, mostly boneless retail cuts and lean trim from steer beef carcasses by yield grade and degree of marbling, for two levels of fat remaining on cuts Veal and calf: Yield of bone-in cuts and boneless meat plus boneless to Choice beef: Yields of retail cuts per pound of carcass weight by yield grade Physical composition of raw retail beef cuts trimmed to 4-inch fat Fresh pork from barrows and gilts: Yields of selected cuts Lamb: Yields of bone-in cuts and boneless meat plus boneless to bone-in Estimated conversion factors for yields of liquid eggs and dried eggs and the moisture content of dried eggs, by type of product, 1991 . . . . Limits on content of selected ingredients for categories of processed poultry . Canned fish and shellfish: Net weight per standard case Factors relating to corn content of specified products Factors relating to whole grain and processed wheat. Factors relating to barley and malt content of specified products Soybean products: Factors relating to yields of selected items U.S. oilseeds: Average yield per harvested acre . Flaxseed products: Factors relating to yields of selected items 44 |