Yield in accounting weight
The net weight of agricultural produce after cleaning and drying, adjusted to meet standard moisture and impurity levels.
Также говорят: net yield, adjusted weight, clean weight
This metric represents the actual merchantable product available for sale or storage. Since crops are harvested with varying moisture content and debris, the initial 'field weight' must be reduced to the standard 'accounting weight' to determine the true yield performance of a crop season.
Agricultural managers use specific conversion factors based on moisture content and impurity percentages to calculate the net output. A common error is failing to accurately measure these variables across the entire field, which leads to discrepancies between predicted and actual revenue.