The national average price per pound for a frozen turkey hen was $1.47 last week compared to $1.15 a year ago, according to U.S. The greatest toll of this year's bird flu outbreak likely won't be on American pocketbooks but on the emotions and nerves of turkey growers.Ĭonsumers shopping for a bird this month will find that turkey, like everything else, is more expensive than last year. 31 after pulling off the road on his way to the state laboratory. "Divine intervention or coincidence or whatever you want to say has kept us from having issues," Huisinga said, speaking to the Star Tribune on Oct. ![]() ![]() On the cusp of this year's Thanksgiving - when Americans gather around the bronze bird to debate politics, watch football and share thoughts of gratitude - Huisinga knows he's still only one vial away from losing everything. So far, he's avoided becoming a statistic: one of the 100-plus farms in Minnesota to get hit this year by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), a plague that has devastated many turkey farmers for the second time in a decade, forcing them to euthanize 3.6 million birds in the state this year. Riding shotgun in his pickup truck? Test tubes filled with tracheal swabs. ![]() Chris Huisinga drives to Willmar every Monday from his turkey farm in western Minnesota.
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