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bushel

[boosh-uhl] / ˈbʊʃ əl /


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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

Wheat futures rose more than 20% in the first quarter to around $6 a bushel.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

Benchmark corn prices, a key commodity for U.S. farmers, traded below $3.50 per bushel in 2017 before rising above $8 in 2022.

From Barron's Feb. 23, 2026

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

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

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

That crop is now seen at 1.05 billion bushels, down roughly 350 million bushels from last year and roughly 100 million lower than forecast by surveyed analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

The Department of Agriculture lowered its 2026 U.S. wheat production outlook to 1.56 billion bushels amid drought conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

And the harvest was a big one—close to two hundred bushels per acre.

From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner

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




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