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bushel

[boosh-uhl] / ˈbʊʃ əl /


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At 60 pounds to the bushel, that is roughly 800 pounds of soybeans for every American.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Chicago contracts rose by their daily limit of 45 cents a bushel Wednesday, before rising further Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

When George Naylor delivers his truckload of corn, it is weighed and graded and his account is credited with that day’s price per bushel.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

Surveyed analysts had forecast corn production to fall from last month to 15.97 billion bushels, and soybeans to climb from the previous month to 4.46 billion bushels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The outlook for U.S. ending stocks was also adjusted for 2026, pegging corn at 1.79 billion bushels, soybeans at 310 million bushels, and wheat at 722 million 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

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

From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner

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

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




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