WASHINGTON — U.S. turkey meat production in third-quarter 2011 was 1.4 billion pounds, up less than 1 percent from a year earlier, according to a report from USDA's Economic Research Service.
As with broiler production, third-quarter 2011 turkey production saw a reduction in the number of birds being slaughtered and an increase in their average weight. In the case of turkeys, the number of birds slaughtered in the third quarter was 61.9 million, down 1 percent from the previous year. Offsetting this was a 2-percent increase in average live weights to 28.9 pounds. . .
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