Bale (weight)

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Bale [beil, engl. ] is a bale weight of light goods, such as cotton and hay . It is mainly used in the United States and Egypt .

1  cotton bale is equivalent to 480 lbs, or about 218  kilograms .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathias Metzger: Raw material trading and raw material derivatives . GRIN Verlag, April 5, 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-88478-0 , p. 83 (accessed August 15, 2013).