bushel
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The most-active contract is now up 2.9% to $6.49 a bushel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Wheat prices surged to record highs above $13 per bushel in early 2022.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Corn futures rose above $7 per bushel in early 2022 as commodities traders weighed fertilizer shortages and supply disruptions.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Corn Prices are currently about $4.40 per bushel, better than 2017, but farmers’ costs have also risen.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
I turned straight to the market report and learned that flax was going for $3.66 a bushel.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Projected yield for this year was reduced to 52.7 bushels an acre from 53 bushels an acre forecast last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal on average projected U.S. wheat output at 1.52 billion bushels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
For corn, that is slightly higher than analyst estimates of 15.95 billion bushels, while for soybeans, it is lower than expectations of 4.45 billion bushels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Joe Sinclair, president of Iowa farm retailer Quality Ag Services, said he recently sold corn seed to a grower who had projected his fields would yield 200 bushels of corn an acre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
“The Swanburne girls had a treasure hunt this morning, and these are the treasures. As you see by our bushels, we are tidying up right now.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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So his third evil is the busheling and harrying of genius….
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
He did mostly cutting and fitting, but some "busheling."
From The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress by George Edmund Haynes
They got enough to keep 'em busy busheling the jobs them war correspondents turns in on them.
From Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass