bushel
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The corn and soybean farmer watched as prices fell from $7 a bushel for corn in early 2022 to just $4.29 three years later.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
By 1935, Ford was using roughly a bushel of soybeans in the manufacture of every automobile.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
One bushel holds 56 pounds of kernels, so 180 bushels is slightly more than 10,000 pounds of food per acre.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
The very night he died, in 1935, his widow and her sister shoveled bushels of his private papers into their West Adams mansion’s basement incinerator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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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