After decades of Americans gobbling up more and more turkey, production of the bird hasn’t quite been flying the same in recent years.
The U.S. produced about 6 billion pounds of ready-to-cook turkey in each of the last two years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Those were among the highest production levels on record for the industry.
But just looking at those two years misses the bigger picture.
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