Turkey producer Butterball is telling retailers that there's a national shortage of their large, fresh turkeys for this year's holiday. The shortage only applies to the company's fresh, never-frozen whole turkeys in sizes 16 pounds and up. Butterball says the problem is that turkeys on some of its company farms did not gain weight as quickly as in the past. The company says it'll ship only about half of what they usually have. Butterball expects to be back at full capacity in time for Christmas.

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