The American Farm Bureau’s 40th annual Thanksgiving Dinner cost survey shows another drop this year according to a news story from Radio Iowa. Iowa Farm Bureau research director Christopher Pudenz says the survey checks the prices of 12 items each year, and they cost a little over $55 which is a total decline of five percent from 2024. He says the turkey dropped 16 percent from 2024, or from about $26 last year to $21.50 this year. Pudenz says it appears retailers seem to have realized that folks are feeling a pinch in their pocketbooks and put the whole birds on sale this year. He says the cost for the ten-person meal topped out in 2022 at 64 dollars, and has fallen every year since then.
