Talk:Bushel/@comment-3346101-20110116061941/@comment-70.248.117.146-20110116094807

Becky, bushels are "found" while harvesting your crops. The number of bushels that you find is equal to the number of mastery stars you have for that crop plus one. Example: You have a One Star Mastery of a certain crop that yields bushels (not all crops give bushels when harvested, but most do.)  1 star + 1, yields 2 bushels when bushels are found. These imediately post to your Market Stall Inventory, up to a total number of 100 bushels. If you find more bushels after your market stall is full, no additional bushels will be added. You will get an opportunity to share bushels from your market stall (if it is currently selling the same crop OR if it was previously closed, then opened with the finding of the curent crop.)

Be careful not to gather too many bushels of crops that you won't use. Keeping one of each crop that you use for for crafts will give you a bushel to use while harvesting the next "field" of these crops, thus giving you a mastery bonus. This doubles the points applied towards your mastery. (It actually increases mastery by one, as oppose to "doubling" it. You'll see that, during a double mastery weekend, this too is added and not multiplied, so the name is confusing. "Double" in FarmVille means "add one."  So if you "use" a bushel while harvesting a crop on a "Double Mastery Weekend," you'll get 1 (mastery) + 1(bushel) + 1(double mastery) = 3 points applied towards mastery of that particular crop.