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Now that the 2024 election is over and Thanksgiving is drawing closer, here are 10 facts about Minnesota's Thanksgiving star of the show: the turkey.

As we get ready to celebrate a somewhat more normal Thanksgiving in 2021, here are 10 facts about Minnesota's Thanksgiving star of the show: the turkey.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A University of Minnesota study says farmers who actively tilled fields near turkey barns in the early days of last year's bird flu outbreak may have unwittingly helped spread the virus.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Wildlife managers have announced changes to Minnesota's wild turkey regulations to give hunters more time to bag a bird next spring.

Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - Olmsted County deputies were busy overnight dealing with a traffic wreck involving more than 600 turkeys.   The turkeys had been picked up from a farm in rural Olmsted County and the truck ended up flipping on its side on 100th Ave SE,  a few miles south of Marion...

St Paul, MN (KROC AM News) - Good news on the bird flu front.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Scientists have developed a vaccine strain that is 100 percent effective in protecting chickens from bird flu and testing is underway to see if it protects turkeys.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Two poultry operations in Renville County have been struck by bird flu, including one with over 400,000 chickens.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hormel is reporting a record second-quarter profit of $180.2 million despite the impacts of bird flu that has killed more than 8 million birds in Minnesota.

St Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) -  The ongoing bird flu crisis in Minnesota has led to a decision to cancel all bird exhibitions at county fairs, the Minnesota State Fair, and other gatherings of birds.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Board of Animal Health says two more Minnesota turkey flocks have tested presumptive for bird flu. The farms are in Kandiyohi and Swift counties. The number of birds affected at those two farms has not yet been determined...

St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - Governor Mark Dayton met Monday with top agriculture, health and other officials involved in the state’s response to the ongoing avian flu crisis and announced a 30-day extension to the Peacetime State of Emergency he declared last week.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota officials have confirmed four more cases of a bird flu strain that's cost the state's turkey producers over 1.6 million birds.

Undated (KROC AM News) - The number of commercial turkey farms in Minnesota that have been hit by a deadly avian flu strain has grown to five.