AG Week

How Minnesota got a (turkey) leg up in the industry

ST. PAUL — Erica Sawatzke, a sixth-generation turkey grower with Oakdale Farms in Douglas County, said her family used to travel the state to “show” turkeys in the ’30s when the business first came to ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Pasture-raised turkeys from local producers a Thanksgiving favorite

Finding a homegrown Thanksgiving turkey in Ramona during the 1930s was relatively easy. The town was known as the “Turkey Capital of the World” at that time, with a large turkey farming industry. But ...
The Aspen Times

Let’s talk turkey: ACES partners with local farm for Thanksgiving dinners in Aspen

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies’ Rock Bottom Ranch is partnering with the Roaring Fork Valley’s Marigold Livestock Company to raise turkeys and process them for residents to use for ...
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Ind. bird flu outbreak not expected to raise turkey prices. Here’s why:

INDIANA (WANE) — Bird flu cases climb in Northeast Indiana counties, but this local outbreak may not raise the price of your Thanksgiving meal. “Turkey prices should be pretty consistent with last ...
The Economist

What goes into raising the turkey on your holiday table

The first thing to know about domesticated turkeys is that they do not really go “gobble, gobble”. Children’s books lie. Instead, turkeys emit either sharp seal-like barks or a strange trilling coo ...
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First time in 90 years, Pounds Turkey Farm did not raise their own turkeys

For the first time in 90 years, Pounds Turkey Farm in Westmoreland County sold Thanksgiving turkeys that they didn't raise on their family farm. "Yesterday was really crazy. Had about 900 customers in ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Let’s talk turkey: ACES partners with local farm for Thanksgiving dinners

Aspen Center for Environmental Studies’ Rock Bottom Ranch is partnering with the Roaring Fork Valley’s Marigold Livestock Company to raise turkeys and process them for residents to use for ...