It’s Not Just Inflation: Avian Flu Will Pump Up Prices Of Thanksgiving Turkeys

Sky-high inflation and a persistent outbreak of the viral avian flu is driving up the costs to produce turkey this year while threatening the supply.

-- Forbes, --October 11, 2022

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In Meeker County, Minnesota, at the end of August, 180,000 turkeys infected with avian flu had to be killed. Farmers were raising the birds for Hormel’s Jennie-O brand, the country’s second-biggest turkey supplier. The outbreak in the rural community, 70 miles west of Minneapolis, is still ravaging flocks.-- More...

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