It will cost less to bring the star of Thanksgiving to the dinner table this year, but Americans are still feeling the pinch of rising grocery prices.

Cheaper turkey is helping to reduce the total cost of Thanksgiving dinner this year compared with the holiday last year, despite weather-related disasters and a shortage of farmworkers pushing up vegetable prices, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The national average cost for a classic Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people has fallen 5% to $55.18, according to the farm bureau's 40th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey, which was completed by volunteers who checked food prices in stores and online in the first week of November.

This is the third consecutive year the average price of a classic Thanksgiving dinner has declined, bu

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