Corn price per ton calculator

Bushels to tons

A ton of corn is 35.71 bushels: 2,000 pounds divided by the 56-pound bushel. Multiply a bushel price by 35.71 for the price per ton, and divide a ton price by 35.71 for the price per bushel. A metric ton is 39.37 bushels.

• $3.50 a bushel is $125.00 a ton
• $4.00 a bushel is $142.86 a ton
• $4.50 a bushel is $160.71 a ton
• $5.00 a bushel is $178.57 a ton
• $5.50 a bushel is $196.43 a ton
• $6.00 a bushel is $214.29 a ton

Where the corn price comes from

USDA's weekly Grain Co-Products report quotes the average price ethanol plants pay for corn in dollars per bushel. The Ration's corn price page converts it to dollars per ton at 56 pounds a bushel, so it sits on the same footing as the feedstuffs USDA quotes per ton, and charts it back to 2022. A local elevator bid differs from it by the local basis.

Per ton of dry matter and per pound of energy

Corn as sold is about 12 percent water. The dry-matter price is the price per ton divided by 0.879, and the cost of a pound of TDN divides that by 1,760 pounds, the TDN in a ton of corn dry matter. That cost per pound of TDN is the corn benchmark every energy feed on the cheapest-energy board is measured against; the corn and soybean meal benchmark guide explains why. A load wetter or drier than the book value carries a different amount of dry matter: run it through the feed cost-per-nutrient calculator with its own dry matter.