bushel
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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
At about $4.67 a bushel, the price is in line with that of a year ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 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
I reported each night at ten, got a huge pail of water, a bushel of soap flakes and, with a gang of moppers, I worked.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
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
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
Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had forecast 2026 total wheat production to total 1.73 billion bushels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Now all the rest, their bushels ground, were sleeping; one only, frail and slow, kept at it still.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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