How do small farms stay in the turkey business?

Name: How do small farms stay in the turkey business?
Uploaded: 2014-11-27T01:06:05Z
Duration: P393S
Description: How do small farms, competing against factory farms, gobble up their share of business? The family-run Ekonk Hill Turkey Farm in Connecticut relies on Thanksgiving sales for nearly half of their yearly income, selling high-quality birds raised in a free-range environment. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at how small businesses struggle in an economy dominated by big business.

Clip: 11/26/2014 | 6m 33s

How do small farms, competing against factory farms, gobble up their share of business? The family-run Ekonk Hill Turkey Farm in Connecticut relies on Thanksgiving sales for nearly half of their yearly income, selling high-quality birds raised in a free-range environment. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at how small businesses struggle in an economy dominated by big business.

Aired: 11/26/14

Rating: NR

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How do small farms stay in the turkey business?

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