bushel
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By 1935, Ford was using roughly a bushel of soybeans in the manufacture of every automobile.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
At 60 pounds to the bushel, that is roughly 800 pounds of soybeans for every American.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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
But they remain roughly 80 cents to 90 cents a bushel off from what Purdue forecasts as “break-even levels” for farmers working on average productivity soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
He turned to face Aunt Sera, handing her a beautiful bushel of lavender.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
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
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 on average projected U.S. wheat output at 1.52 billion bushels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Every day they bestowed upon the statue of Bel twelve bushels of flour, forty sheep, and fifty gallons of wine.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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