Independent turkey farmers are working around the clock to keep up with demand for free-range turkey, battling rising feed costs and a pressing Christmas deadline.
abc.net.au/news/free-range-turkey-farmers-challenged-by-rising-costs-christmas/101765728Turkey farmers in South Australia have been working around the clock to get turkeys out to butchers before Christmas, but demand is outstripping their supply.Independent turkey farmers have been hit by increasing feed costsTurkey farmer John Watson owns and runs Pooginagoric Free Range Turkeys with his wife Robyn near Bordertown.
Increasing input costs were not just causing higher meat prices, it has also sent other turkey farms out of business.Claire Longbottom and her family had been running a business called Freshwater Turkeys but announced they would be closing at the end of the year due to increasing feed, electricity, fuel and processing costs."If we were to double all our prices to compensate for the price of the feed, it would just be at a point where butchers will decline to buy them," she said.
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