Turkey Prices for Thanksgiving

[Bird]

Bird the price that I heard from my wife, who heard it from my mother, who heard from my aunt, said that the turkeys at HEB in Bastrop were 40 cents a pound.

Does that mean you're not bettin' on it, Don?

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evenin Bird,
Well dont buy turkey in NE !!!

Kathleen paid $1.36 @ lb for 13 lb bird, Premium Butterball ... still cheap IMO but way more than you guys are payin ...

 

[Bird]

Good Evenin Bird,
Well dont buy turkey in NE !!!

Kathleen paid $1.36 @ lb for 13 lb bird, Premium Butterball ... still cheap IMO but way more than you guys are payin ...

Scotty, of course I just posted prices I saw at Walmart; $.98 a pound for Butterball turkeys. It's most likely that our other two major grocery chains (Kroger's and Albertson's) will be a little higher, and the Super Target is most likely a little higher, also. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they're as high was what Kathleen paid.

 

[Western]

Tonight at Wal-Mart in Weatherford, My Wife paid... $1.89 lb for full smoked turkeys...$1.49 lb for Breast..

 

[mjarrels]

Guess I'm lucky... Live in the poultry captial of the world. Never have to pay for turkey. Many friends work for poulty processing plants.

mark

 

[Redbug]

But back to one of the other questions asked which I am curious...why are pork and turkey producers closing shop? It ought to be a stable business. People have to eat. I think with the recession, people would be buying more of the white meats instead of red meats, since they are cheaper. And I don't think the price of corn has gone up that much for feed. I don't see how foreign imported meat could be that much cheaper, with the efficiencies in the chicken and hog farms, here. What's up?

 

[Bird]

Dave, I sure don't know why they would be closing. The only thing I can think of, besides the higher price of feed, is some of the things I've read about lawsuits and requirements to reduce pollution. Both poultry and swine farms do generate a lot of fertilizer and runoff.

 

[Bird]

My usual luck? Seven days ago, I bought two turkeys for $.40 a pound. Two days later, they were all gone and the cheapest ones were $.60 a pound. This morning, they're $.33 a pound. If I'd waited a week, I'd have saved $.07 a pound. But I'm not complaining; just happy I got mine as cheap as I did, and still wonder about the poor farmer who raised them.

 

[keegs]

Has anyone mentioned promotional turkeys? I don't think we've paid for a turkey in quite a while. The grocers here give them away during the Christmas and Thanksgiving holiday seasons after some hundreds of $ of store purchases. I think they use the store savings card to keep track of when you become eligible.

There are several small scale free range turkey farm operations in the area that have done well over the past decade or so. Their birds are very expensive but some claim they're worth every penny. I guess we're too cheap but fifty - eighty bucks for a bird seems excessive.

I'm a little curious about whether there's correlation between the free birds and the free range bird market since both have been around about the same time. And I'm not sure how well the gourmet bird business will do in this economy.

 

[Western]

Compared to the price of red meat, poultry should do pretty good.

At least now when I deer hunt, the wife doesn't give me as much grief about the cost!