{"id":278473,"date":"2025-11-08T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278473\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T03:04:11","slug":"turkey-numbers-drop-prices-could-jump-40-focus-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/278473\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Numbers Drop: Prices Could Jump 40% | Focus Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Turkey Numbers Drop: Prices Could Jump 40%\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/690e308d878ea.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) &#8212; The U.S. turkey population has reached its lowest level in nearly four decades as Thanksgiving approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The American Farm Bureau Federation reports an estimated 195 million birds this year, attributing the decline to multiple outbreaks of avian diseases.<\/p>\n<p>This lower supply is expected to lead to higher prices for shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>The USDA forecasts a national average wholesale price that is 40% higher than last year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the tighter supply, industry experts do not anticipate any major shortage of turkeys this holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) &#8212; The U.S. turkey population has reached its lowest level in nearly four decades as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[106138,28,101,7051,12807,147637,147638,147636],"class_list":["post-278473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-american-farm-bureau-federation","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-numbers","tag-turkey-population","tag-turkey-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}