Bushels is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bushels meaning
plural of bushel
Using Bushels
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bushel
- In the example corpus, bushels often appears in combinations such as: million bushels, bushels per, bushels of.
Context around Bushels
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 15 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bushels
- In this selection, "bushels" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 000, soybean, corn, per, split and down stand out and add context to how "bushels" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at 47 bushels per acre and 0 million bushels. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bushels" sits close to words such as abbie, acoustics and adequacy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bushels
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
China was the No. 1 destination, with 11.0 million bushels. (11 words)
China accounted for around half of the total, with 58.5 million bushels. (13 words)
Yield is forecast at 47 bushels per acre, up 3 bushels from last year. (14 words)
China was the No. 1 destination for U.S. soybean export inspections last week, with 13.5 million bushels, but there were plenty of other buyers of the commodity from a variety of geographies. (34 words)
This might be feasible in the case of precious or even industrial metals, but livestock, bushels of corn, frozen orange juice, and barrels of crude oil are more complicated,” it said. (31 words)
That tally roughly tripled the prior week’s total of 19.6 million bushels and moderately exceeded the average trade guess of 43.3 million bushels. (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
Yield is forecast at 47 bushels per acre, up 3 bushels from last year.
Pakistan importers have purchased 2.2 million bushels of wheat from optional origins, following purchases of 11.0 million bushels in late July.
AccuWeather predicts a 7.9% drop in soybean bushels per acre from 2018 and a 5.3% drop in corn bushels per acre.
Japan was the only other country of note, taking 1.9 million bushels, with the remaining 4.2 million bushels split among other destinations.
Sorghum yield is estimated at 111 bushels per acre, an increase of 28 bushels.
That tally roughly tripled the prior week’s total of 19.6 million bushels and moderately exceeded the average trade guess of 43.3 million bushels.
The yield, forecast at 47 bushels per acre, is up 5 bushels from last year.
Exports have been increased to 125 million bushels, and stocks have been lowered 125 million bushels from the January report.
Ideally, Swanson says Monsanto aims to help corn growers improve output from 185 bushels of corn per acre to closer to 500 bushels.
With oats, Canada uses 34 lb bushels and the USA uses 32 lb bushels.
Crush volumes are still expected to rise from the previous month, when 179.184 million bushels of soybeans were processed.
Private exporters also announced the sale of 5.9 million bushels of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the current marketing year.
This might be feasible in the case of precious or even industrial metals, but livestock, bushels of corn, frozen orange juice, and barrels of crude oil are more complicated,” it said.
Farmers are raising more and more soybeans every year — about 10,000 bushels each year — thanks to advancements in technology.
Sorghum off-farm stocks totaled 789,000 bushels, down 18% from a year ago.
April’s total blew past the previous record of 453.7 million bushels set in May 2018.
As it has most weeks this marketing year, soybeans led the way in total volume after churning out another 41.8 million bushels this past week.
China accounted for around half of the total, with 58.5 million bushels.
China was the No. 1 destination for U.S. soybean export inspections last week, with 13.5 million bushels, but there were plenty of other buyers of the commodity from a variety of geographies.
China was the No. 1 destination, with 11.0 million bushels.
Common combinations with bushels
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- million bushels 54×
- bushels per 17×
- bushels of 17×
- billion bushels 11×
- of bushels 7×
- bushels and 6×
- bushels in 5×
- bushels from 4×
- bushels with 4×
- at bushels 3×