SACRAMENTO, Calif. Record-high feed costs this year have not been kind to many farmers who raise livestock, but turkey producers say healthy demand for their product has helped them weather the storm.
Bill Mattos, president of the California Poultry Federation, said the holidays are always "a good time for the turkey industry," because of the whole-body birds that are sold — about 40 percent of the year's business — and he expects the state will once again sell all of its turkeys this year.
The state supplies about 35 percent of the nation's turkeys, he said. That. . .
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