There could be other reasons for cheap turkey. F.e. farmers have no food for them or some state regulations make business nonprofitable. If it was hens, you could check the prices for eggs to find out. AFAIK, turkey eggs is not accounted as food products, so it is hard to tell.

In Russia, few years ago, when government tried to press farmers with some stupid veterinary requirements about all that fake birdflus and other crap in the big agricultural corporations interests, for some time we had extremely cheap chickens (IDK, whole fresh non-frozen was $1.2/kg or 55c/lb at the time) and overfilled inventories with growing egg prices because farmers massively slaughter poultry since it was no profit to grow them anymore. When that regulations was relaxed, I don't remember, was it some jailed veterinary officials or they just bankrupt enough farmers, prices stabilised back.

There could be other reasons for cheap turkey. F.e. farmers have no food for them or some state regulations make business nonprofitable. If it was hens, you could check the prices for eggs to find out. AFAIK, turkey eggs is not accounted as food products, so it is hard to tell.

In Russia, few years ago, when government tried to press farmers with some stupid veterinary requirements about all that fake birdflus and other crap in the big agricultural corporations interests, for some time we had extremely cheap chickens (IDK, whole fresh non-frozen was $1.2/kg or 55c/lb at the time) with growing egg prices because farmers massively slaughter poultry since it was no profit to grow them anymore. When that regulations was relaxed, I don't remember, was it some jailed veterinary officials or they just bankrupt enough farmers, prices stabilised back.