What is a centner? Yesterday, at 1:30 am, I checked Miriam-Webster, which came up with this definition: “Any of various units of weight used especially in Europe and usually equal to about 110 pounds (about 50 kilograms).
A few hours later, several early rising farm readers pounded out emails to me saying, essentially: ‘Dummy! It’s 100 kilos!’
Yes, and no. Both definitions are correct. It depends on where you are.
Wiki writes: centner (plural centners)
- A unit of weight with different actual definitions in parts of Germany and Scandinavia, typically 100 local pounds.
- A nonstandard metric unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms, commonly used as an agricultural measure in Eastern Bloc countries
Since, I am not writing the Denmark Business News, it should have been 100 kilograms in the Ukraine Business News. With best regards, Jim Brooke