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From January through August of this year, Chinese buyers purchased just over 200 million bushels of U.S. soybeans, compared with almost 1 billion bushels over the same period last year.

That demand drop led to the price of soybeans sinking to around $10 per bushel, not enough for farmers to break even.

Last week, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick repeated his earlier criticism of India's fierce safeguards, asking why a country of 1.4 billion people wouldn't "buy one bushel of US corn".

Then he straight-up swiped “The Tonight Show” from under O’Brien, yielding bushels of acrimony in doing so.

My sister and I, along with our four cousins, spent many afternoons throughout the summer with our grandmother shelling bushels of peas and shucking corn.