US Bushels to Liters (bu to L)

1 US bushel equals 35.23907017 liters (rounded).

1 US bushel = 35.23907017 liters

How to convert US bushels to liters

To convert US bushels to liters, multiply the number of US bushels by 35.23907017. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply liters by 0.02837759326 (rounded).

liters = US bushels × 35.23907017

Example: 10 US bushels = 352.3907017 liters.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

US Bushel (bu)

US customaryTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Exactly 2,150.42 cubic inches (35.239 L). A dry measure for grain and produce; commodity prices are quoted per bushel.

English statutes tied the bushel to the cylinder-shaped Winchester measure, 18.5 inches across and 8 inches deep, which holds about 2,150.42 cubic inches. The United States kept that volume, 35.239 L, when Britain did not: the Weights and Measures Act 1824 replaced it with an imperial bushel of 8 imperial gallons, about 36.37 L. As a result, an American and a British bushel differ by about 3 percent. The name probably comes from Old French boissiel, a little box.

The bushel entered England after the Norman Conquest as a step between the pound and the ton, and it was later redefined by weight, 56 avoirdupois pounds in the sixteenth century. Today it is largely a mass measure for grain, quoted in standard weights per commodity: 60 lb for wheat and soybeans, 56 lb for shelled maize, 48 lb for barley and 32 lb for oats in the US. Commodity futures prices on American exchanges are still quoted per bushel.

1 US bushel = 35.23907017 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Bushel; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

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