Thanksgiving Dinner Cheaper and No Sign of Farm Bill Progress

**Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner this year will cost less than last year but is still more expensive than before COVID-19.

The annual Thanksgiving dinner survey shows the cost of this year’s classic holiday feast for ten people is $58.08 or about $5.80 per person.

That’s a 5% decrease from 2023, which was 4.5% lower than the $64.06 cost in 2022.

A Thanksgiving meal is still 19% higher than 2019.

**The National Pork Producers Council issued a statement after Senate Ag Chair Debbie Stabenow unveiled the Senate Democrats’ 2024 Farm Bill text.

NPPC President Lori Stevermer says they appreciate

Stabenow’s efforts to publish farm bill text, but it fails to provide a solution to California’s Prop 12 and simply isn’t viable.

NPPC is urging both the House and Senate to swiftly consider and pass a farm bill that includes a legislative fix to Proposition 12.

**With little sign of a breakthrough on the farm bill in Congress, farm groups are shifting their attention to a proposed $21 billion bailout bill to address high costs and lower commodity prices that are sharply eroding farm income.

Lawmakers must fund the government past December 20, when a stopgap spending law expires.

House Ag Chair GT Thompson says time will tell, but another farm bill extension could be necessary.