All 18 Uses of
bushel
in
The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Hybrid corn quadrupled the yields of farmers, from about twenty bushels per acre to about eighty bushels per acre.†
Chpt 1.2
- Hybrid corn quadrupled the yields of farmers, from about twenty bushels per acre to about eighty bushels per acre.†
Chpt 1.2
- New hybrids have increased farm yields to about 180 bushels per acre.†
Chpt 1.2
- One bushel holds 56 pounds of kernels, so 180 bushels is slightly more than 10,000 pounds of food per acre.†
Chpt 1.2
- One bushel holds 56 pounds of kernels, so 180 bushels is slightly more than 10,000 pounds of food per acre.†
Chpt 1.2
- Add it all up and you find that every bushel of corn from an industrial farm requires about half a gallon of oil to grow.†
Chpt 1.3
- 50 to grow a bushel of corn.†
Chpt 1.3
- But that year, the price the grain elevator co-op paid for a bushel of corn was only about $1.†
Chpt 1.3
- At that price Naylor would have lost more than a dollar on every bushel of corn.†
Chpt 1.3
- When George Naylor delivers his truckload of corn, it is weighed and graded and his account is credited with that day's price per bushel.†
Chpt 1.4
- That car was joined to a train more than a mile long, holding 440,000 bushels of corn.†
Chpt 1.4
- American farmers produce thirteen billion bushels of corn a year.†
Chpt 1.4
- That's up from four billion bushels in 1970.†
Chpt 1.4
- I should have known that tracing a single bushel of industrial corn is as impossible as tracing a bucket of water after it's been poured into a river.†
Chpt 1.4
- NINETY THOUSAND KERNELS Let's imagine a bushel of number 2 field corn.†
Chpt 1.4
- One bushel holds about ninety thousand kernels.†
Chpt 1.4
- Looking at it one way, each American eats only about a bushel of corn per year.
Chpt 1.6 *bushel = a unit of measure used for dry goods (filling an 8 gallon container)
- At one end it eats millions of bushels of corn fed to it every day by the trainload.†
Chpt 1.6
Definition:
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(bushel) a unit of measure used for dry goods (filling an 8 gallon container)
or:
a large amount -- as in "bushels of fun"