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The holidays are right around the corner and that means looking for the right turkey for the dinner table. But the turkey company Butterball is concerned there may be a shortage in supply this year.
For well over a century, Harrison’s Poultry Farm has been making sure one of Thanksgiving’s most important guests arrives to the family dinner on time.
“Everything that goes into producing turkey has made it harder this year, especially labor.”
Kyle Zimmerman and his brother took over the family business during the pandemic. He says national supply chain issues have increased many costs, but he credits long-standing relationships with small farms for not having an issue with supply.
“We’re placing chicken orders every day. Where turkey orders, we get a few deliveries every week throughout the year and then our Thanksgiving order, we have so much time to plan for it and so do the farms,” Zimmerman said.
Robert Kauffman runs Ho-Ka Turkey Farms in Waterman, Illinois. He says the problem isn’t the turkeys. It’s having the people to dress them – take the feathers off and get them ready to cook.
“I’ve been real worried about getting temporary help for the dressing season,” Kauffman said.
He says he raises about 60,000 turkeys a year, most of which are sold in November. He usually brings in about 100 temporary workers. Right now, he has seven.
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