The top turkey companies experienced their greatest year-over-year decline in production since the avian influenza outbreak in 2015.Overall turkey production fell slightly in 2018 due to challenging market conditions, according to WATT PoultryUSA's 2018 Top Poultry Company rankings.As a whole, the top U.S. turkey companies produced 60 million fewer pounds of live turkeys in 2018 after increasing production in 2016 and 2017. In total, the top 22 companies produced 7.408 billion pounds of live turkeys in 2018; that's a 0.82 percent decline from the 7.469 billion pounds produced in 2017.
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