bushel
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In another potential inflationary development, corn for December delivery rose 4.5% to $4.81 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade after the Department of Agriculture slashed its estimates for domestic yields.
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
Wheat futures rose more than 20% in the first quarter to around $6 a bushel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The boys each balanced a bushel on their soup-bowl helmets; the third bushel they carried between them by its handles.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
The eldest is Kenny Heath, 63, a commercial fisherman who hauled in 32 bushels of crabs the day he put his 40-foot boat to the test in Pocomoke City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
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
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
Every summer Miss Katherine would pick bushels of peaches and preserve them in jars with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and other spices which she kept secret.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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
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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