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A cost analyst told 7News that turkey prices are up about 8% ahead of Thanksgiving, with Thanksgiving dinner costs rising. He attributed the increase to a smaller flock following bird flu and to higher diesel and cold-storage energy costs linked to the war in Iran.
A smaller turkey flock and higher energy costs for refrigerated storage and trucking push up turkey prices, a poultry feed input signal for turkey producers. The effect on feed demand is modest, so price impact on feed commodities is limited.
wjla.comJade LawsonNov 11, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
