Turkey Talk: Bird is the Word
With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I’m Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
It’s turkey week and we’ll be taking slightly little bit of time right here every day to acknowledge the contributions of agriculture to this vacation. It’s a reasonably straightforward dialogue in the case of a vacation with an elevated highlight on an attractive meal.
So let’s speak turkey!
In 2022, farmers within the United States produced 210 million turkeys. That’s valued at $7.1 billion. Who is the state most acquainted to the gobble gobble? Tuns out Midwest is greatest in the case of elevating that feathered a part of the feast with Minnesota main the U.S. in turkey manufacturing.
Cost of that turkey this 12 months? According to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual synopsis, the turkey has accounted for a mean of 43% of the worth of the Thanksgiving dinner during the last 20 years. In 2023, a 16-pound frozen entire turkey accounts for about 45% of the meal. While its share of the invoice has gone up, at $27.35, the worth of the fowl is down 5.6% in comparison with 2022.
That’s proper, a meals value that has gone down! This 12 months’s drop in turkey costs, based on AFBF, is attributable to a lower in avian influenza circumstances and the ensuing restoration within the turkey flock.
