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Here's another excuse to pig out this Thanksgiving: turkey prices are down.

After suffering from an outbreak of bird flu in 2015, American turkey producers have come back in a big way. Low feed costs are helping U.S. output climb 7 percent this year to a record 6.02 billion pounds, government data show. Rising supplies mean that wholesale frozen birds are fetching about 11 percent less than this time last year.

The production boom is good news for Thanksgiving feasters, since recent history suggests Americans will eat about 46 million of the birds when they celebrate the holiday Thursday, according to the National Turkey Federation. With poultry prices falling, the average bill to feed 10 people for Thanksgiving this year is $49.87, compared to $50.11 last year.

Declines are also being driven by falling costs for pumpkin-pie mix and milk, according to an annual survey from the American Farm Bureau Federation. While prices for peas, fresh cranberries and sweet potatoes rose.

Prices for wholesale frozen birds weighing 8 pounds to 16 pounds averaged $1.1541 a pound in the week ended Nov. 18, down from $1.2922 a year earlier, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. The declines were similar for larger birds, and fresh turkey prices also fell from 2015.

“Producers are trying to capitalize on really strong margins,” Knox Jones, an analyst at Advanced Economic Solutions in Omaha, Nebraska, said in a telephone interview. “Both weights and increased slaughter are adding to production.”

The good news for consumers eager to eat turkey this week: Many grocery chains use heavily discounted birds to lure shoppers for all of their holiday food needs.