bushel
Example Sentences
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He could shuck very nearly a hundred bushel a day.
From Literature
Joe Sinclair, president of Iowa farm retailer Quality Ag Services, said he recently sold corn seed to a grower who had projected his fields would yield 200 bushels of corn an acre.
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.
Jimbo couldn’t have been any more pleased than he would have been if he had just found a bushel of apples.
From Literature
His 600 bushels will likely end up in poultry feed in the South.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
