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bushel

[boosh-uhl] / ˈbʊʃ əl /


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Wheat last traded up 0.9% for the session at $7.55 a bushel, on pace for its highest close since July 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 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 prices surged to record highs above $13 per bushel in early 2022.

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

In paper money, two thousand dollars would not buy a bushel of corn.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

U.S. corn yield forecast, in bushels an acre, for the 2026/27 season, down from the Agriculture Department’s projection in July for 183 bushels an acre.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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

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

Now the farmer expects 160 bushels an acre, Sinclair said, since he plans to cut back on fertilizer.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

A whole row of unstrung bows in varying stages of repair or build rested on a worktable, and hundreds of bushels of arrows were stacked into pyramids on the floor beside them.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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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