Volume (Dry) converter

The liter is the reference unit for this converter. A US dry pint equals 0.5506104714 L, a US dry quart (two dry pints) equals 1.101220943 L, and the larger US dry units scale up from there: a peck equals 8.809767542 L and a bushel, four pecks, equals 35.23907017 L.

The pair used most often is bushel (US) to liter. The conversion is a direct multiply: L = bu × 35.23907017. Reversing it means multiplying by 0.02837759326, or dividing by 35.23907017.

A grain order of 4 bushels converts to 4 × 35.23907017 ≈ 140.96 L. A single US peck, a common size for a bag of apples at a farm stand, converts to 8.809767542 L, just under nine liters.

Bushels and pecks are still the working units of American and Canadian grain trading: corn, wheat and soybean prices on commodity exchanges are quoted per bushel, and a combine harvester's yield monitor reports bushels per acre. Produce markets use pecks and bushels informally for apples, tomatoes and other bulk produce sold by volume rather than weight. The UK kept its own, slightly different peck and bushel for historical grain and produce measurement, and the Biblical cor and omer survive mainly in religious texts and historical or archaeological discussions of ancient measurement systems.

Two mistakes recur in this category. The first is assuming a US bushel and a UK (Imperial) bushel are the same size: the Imperial bushel (36.36872 L) is about 3.2% larger, which matters when comparing historical British and American grain records. The second is confusing this converter's dry pint and quart with the more common liquid pint and quart: a dry US pint (0.5506 L) is about 16% larger than a liquid US pint (0.4732 L), because the two were standardized from different historical reference volumes.

The Biblical cor and omer are included for historical and religious reference rather than everyday cooking or shopping: traditional sources describe a cor as equal to 100 omers, matching the 220 L versus 2.2 L ratio used here, and both units appear mainly in historical and religious discussions of ancient grain measurement rather than in any modern trade context.