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With the Thanksgiving holiday just a few short days away, one company is offering free advice to people in charge of their family’s feast.

A Hormel Foods subsidiary has shut down a pair of Minnesota turkey plants after some employees came down with the coronavirus.

Christmas came early for employees of Jennie-O Turkey Store as the Willmar-based company is giving out a record 11-million dollars in bonuses.

Gov. Mark Dayton will convene his Executive Council on Monday as Minnesota responds to a bird flu outbreak that has killed millions of birds in the state's poultry industry.

A Willmar turkey processing plant had to be evacuated after 28 employees fell sick.

Five Jennie-O Turkey Store sites that raise turkeys in Kandiyohi County could soon be allowed to increase the birds in their barns. The company is seeking conditional use permits for the sites in four townships that would allow the increase to keep up with new market demands for smaller birds.

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has accused Jennie-O Turkey Store of 11 safety violations at its Barron plant in connection with an accident last July.

Jennie-O Turkey Store in Willmar is recalling nearly 55,000 pounds of frozen, raw turkey burgers that it says were sold at Sam's Club Stores nationwide. The meat may be contaminated with Salmonella.

A Minnesota appeals court says Jennie-O doesn't have to pay production employees for the time they take putting on and taking off their uniforms. A similar lawsuit against Gold'n Plump Poultry of St. Cloud by 3,000 employees ended with a $1.2 million out-of-court settlement two years ago.