Yields: Brazilian farmers usually express yields of grain crops such as soybeans, corn, and rice in sacks per hectare. For all crops, a sack is 60 kilograms or 132 pounds.

Soybean Yields: Quick conversion of sacks/ha to Bu/A: Reduce sacks per hectare by 10% to get bushels per acre (50 sacks/ha ~ 45 Bu/A).

Corn Yields: Quick conversion of sacks/ha to Bu/A: Reduce sacks per hectare by 5% to get bushels per acre (100 sacks/ha ~ 95 Bu/A).

Cotton Yields: Quick conversion of seed cotton arrobas/ha to lint cotton pounds/A: Multiply arrobas of seed cotton by 5.7 to get lint cotton yield in pounds per acre (250 arrobas/ha ~ 1,425 lbs/A).

Cattle Live Weight: One arroba live weight = 30 kilograms = 66 pounds.

Area: The typical Brazilian land area measurement is the hectare.

Quick conversion of hectares to acres: Multiply hectares by 2.5 to get acres. (1,000 hectares ~ 2,500 acres).

Conversions

Metric/Brazilian Measures to US Measures

Metric/Brazilian Unit	US Equivalent
1 kilometer	0.62 miles
1 square kilometer	0.386 square miles
1 hectare	2.47 acres
1 kilogram	2.2 pounds
1 metric ton	2205 pounds
1 metric ton of soybeans	36.75 bushels
1 sack (60 kilos)	132 pounds
1 arroba (15 kilos of cotton)	33 pounds
1 arroba live cattle (30 kg)	66 pounds
Degrees C to degrees F	C1.8+32

US Measures to Metric/BrazilianMeasures

US Measure	Metric/Brazilian Equivalent
1 mile	1.6 kilometers
1 square mile	2.6 square kilometers
1 acre	0.4 hectares
1 pound	0.45 kilograms
1 ton (2000 pounds)	909 kilograms
1 bushel of soybeans	27.2 kilograms
Degrees F to degrees C	(F-32)/1.8