Seed wheat comes in many different varieties and each variety's seed is a little different in size. Farmers like to look at this size difference in terms of seed per pound. The variety that I am going to use in my example is Winter Hawk. Winter Hawk has approximately 18,000 seeds per pound. 18,000 seeds per pound times 60 pounds in a bushel gets us 1,080,000 seeds per bushel. On our farm we have a 1964 Chevy tandem axle truck that can hold approximately 500 bushels of wheat.
500 bushels of wheat times 1,080,000 seeds equals 540,000,000. So a couple truck loads of seed wheat is a over a billion kernels of wheat. Being by this truck has more visual impact than just seeing pictures but now when I think about a billion of anything I think about it terms of 1964 Tandems. So when I heard the lottery could be up to 1.5 billion dollars I thought of three trucks of wheat.
-Seed Wheat Billionaire Ryan
P.S. - Every time I wrote the word billion in this post I heard Dr. Evil from Austin Powers in my head.
