YSYB Math: How many soybeans in a MT?
Well, we flew over to Heilongjiang Province & drove out to Yanglin Soybean to help count to find out. NOT!
KNOWNS:
140,000 (GMO pesticide SEEDS ) per 50 pound bag for Pioneer's pesticide poison 'Glyphosate' seeds, which is irrelevant anyway.
1 soybean plant has 220 pods/10 = 22 'average' seeded X 2.5 seeds grows equals (~ means approx) 55 soybeans per plant.
1 Metric Ton = 2204.623 pounds
1 bushel of soybeans = 60 pounds
= 10.7 pounds of crude soy oil
= 47.5 pounds of soybean meal
= 39 pounds of soy flour
= 20 pounds of soy protein concentrate
= 11.8 pounds of isolated soy protein
1 metric ton of soybeans = 36.74 bushels
1 short ton of soybeans = 33.33 bushels
= 0.907 metric tons
1 metric ton of soybean meal = 46.39 bushels of soybeans
1 short ton of soybean meal = 42.08 bushels of soybeans
1 metric ton of soybean oil = 206 bushels of soybeans
Soybeans = 79.2% soybean meal
= 17.8% soybean oil
= 3.0% waste
YSYB Scribbles:
1000kg×(1000g/kg)=1000×1000×(1/0.0753)cm3
Is that right? Yup, quite correct, so far.
1000kg×(1000g/kg)=1000×1000×(1/0.0753)cm3
=1/0.753m3=1.33m3
Therefore ONE METRIC TON OF SOYBEANS EQUALS a ( ONE & A THIRD VOLUME METER CUBE. )
Double checking
Weight = Volume * Density
Density of soybeans more or less approx = 720 kg/m3
Then 1 cubic meter of soybeans = 0.72 metric tonne (or 0.79 ton in US)
Another density - another answer, but BOTH computations correlate correctly.
Thus, solving for the number of YSYB soybeans in a Metric Ton (2,204.623 lbs )
So, 35,273.96 ounces in one Metric Ton.
1 MT / .03 ounces of soybean each equals a cross conversion of ( 1,175,799 soybeans ) roughly rounded.
Double checking rough approximation brings 35,273.96 ounces X 33 = 1,164,040 soybeans per MT.
Close enough for those rounded calcs anyway.
Wa-La!
Roughly 1.17 million ( one point one seven million) soybeans in a Metric Ton.
That's 1.17 Million ( 1,170,000) beans X 60 seconds (one per sec counted) X 60 minutes equals
4.212 trillion seconds = equaling 48,750 days of work; again equaling 133.5 years labor ~ of by that time being a professional beancounter, worthy of re'sume virtuoso par excellence.
OK, what did YOU do with mindfulness for the last hour?
Valuable YSYB is worth pondering!
