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Following Penelope’s instructions, the children found three empty bushels and packed them full of treasures; the lighter objects they placed in the wicker basket, which was smaller and easier for Cassiopeia to carry.

That’s down from the agency’s previous estimate of 16.81 billion bushels, but still the most corn ever produced by U.S. farmers in a marketing year by nearly 1.5 billion bushels from the previous record.

The Gospel of Matthew advises Christians to not hide their light under a bushel basket.

Brazil alone has shipped around 2.5 billion bushels to China this year, while U.S. exports have been relatively small, she noted.

Some farmers who have already sold bushels from this year’s crop are facing financial losses.