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Conversion Tools

Worksheets and calculators are useful tools for making coversions.

Conversions Between Metric and English Units are often used by businesses with an international focus.  Metric Conversions for Agriculture also provides you with conversions.

Storage Capacity for Grains and Forages assists you with computing storage needs.  More information on Test Weights and Capacity is available.

For more information on this topic, see the links listed below of articles posted on related Web sites.

Metric Conversions

  • Metric and Other Conversions -- Online Conversion -- Convert just about anything to anything else.  Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions.
  • Online Metric Converter – Sciencemadesimple.net – Online conversion of a wide range of measurements.
  • Ag Calculator – Chicago Board of Trade – Bushel to metric ton conversions.
  • The Everyday Metric System – A listing of common metric conversations -- U.S. Metric Association.
  • Metric Symbols – U.S. Metric Association -- Commonly-used metric system units, symbols, and prefixes.
  • Area Calculator - Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts square inches to square centimeters, square feet to square meters, square yards to square meters, square miles to square kilometers, square acres to square hectares and vice-versa.
  • Capacity Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Aberta Government -- Converts gallons to liters and vice-versa.
  • Length Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts inches to centimeters, feet to meters, yards to meters, miles to kilometers and vice-versa.
  • Mass Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts ounces to grams, pounds to kilograms and vice-versa.
  • Volume Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts cubic inches to cubic centimeters, cubic yards to cubic meters, cubic feet to cubic meters and vice-versa.

Exchange Rate Calculators

  • Exchanges Rate Conversion – Oanda.com -- A multi-lingual Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity.
  • Currency Calculator – x-rates.com – A calculator to compare the value of one currency to another.
  • On-line Currency Converter – Science made simple – Converts the value to one currency to another.
 

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