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bushel

[boosh-uhl] / ˈbʊʃ əl /


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The most-active contract is now up 2.9% to $6.49 a bushel.

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

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

One demon even had a bushel basket full of trinkets.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Along with bushels of cash, the new investing powers will receive something else from these deals: new scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 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

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

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

We pulled out five bushels of brown razor clams, dumped them in our baskets, and carried them down to the workboat.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

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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