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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-05-07 09:28 AM
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170. I think in the US, Canada, and the UK
at varying points, Farmers were the big lobbiers against going metric. Our farmers just seemed to be more successful, probably because we have a HUGE number of them. I don't know why a bushel is easier to label, but some things are just ingrained. They had instruments that measured the old fashioned way, and to update them would be costly and a pain in the ass.
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