Turkey Jumps to Record Before Thanksgiving, Urner Barry Says

Americans will be paying more for their Thanksgiving turkeys this month after rising feed costs led to reduced output in the U.S.

U.S. wholesale, frozen turkeys jumped to $1.09 a pound on average yesterday, the highest price ever and up 28 percent from a year earlier, according to Russell Whitman, the vice president of the poultry division at commodity researcher Urner Barry in Toms River, New Jersey.