"When you have your turkey on Thanksgiving, you're looking at the end of a multi-year process with lots of people thinking, planning out, and worrying, to make that wonderful turkey dinner work for you and your family," says Michael Swanson, Wells Fargo's chief agricultural economist.
"It's one of my favorite places to be in the winter time because we keep it at about 94 degrees when they first come," says Erica Sawatzke, a sixth-generation Minnesota turkey farmer.
"The controlled barn temperature is due to the poults' inability to control their own body temperature. They're used to sitting underneath that mother hens," says Zimmerman.
With some 2,500 turkey farms across the U.S. and the entire process involving careful orchestration, Thanksgiving represents a peak moment in the turkey industry.
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