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“I wanted to have kids for a long time. I just want one kid. I don’t need a whole bushel of kids. I just want one,” she said.

Cone collection, done by local residents who are paid by the bushel, is a catch-as-catch-can kind of business.

There is a market for rye here, Syburg notes, with the U.S. importing up to 13 million bushels yearly, mostly from Canada.

He turned to face Aunt Sera, handing her a beautiful bushel of lavender.

The price of corn — in terms of minutes worked to produce a bushel — has been declining for a couple of centuries as agricultural productivity has improved.