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bushel

[boosh-uhl] / ˈbʊʃ əl /


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The corn and soybean farmer watched as prices fell from $7 a bushel for corn in early 2022 to just $4.29 three years later.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

By 1935, Ford was using roughly a bushel of soybeans in the manufacture of every automobile.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Wheat prices surged to record highs above $13 per bushel in early 2022.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

Chicago wheat futures were up 1.1% at $6.24 a bushel in morning European trade, after rising above $6.41 earlier in the session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

“We caught less, but we made more per bushel, didn’t we?”

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

The very night he died, in 1935, his widow and her sister shoveled bushels of his private papers into their West Adams mansion’s basement incinerator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

U.S. farmers will produce a record-breaking harvest of 4.52 billion bushels of soybeans in 2026, according to projections from the U.S.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

That’s down 5 million bushels from the agency’s projection last month, and remains the smallest wheat crop grown in the U.S. since 1970.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Wheat production was cut to 1.54 billion bushels, down nearly 20 million bushels due to lower output of hard red winter wheat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

“Off with you to Dr. Westminster, then. Come straight back to the Incorrigible dormitory when you are done. Remember, you will have important responsibilities to attend to later! Careful with your bushels, please.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

So his third evil is the busheling and harrying of genius….

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort


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