Some 60,000 turkey hunters are expected to head out into farms, fields and woods across Minnesota starting this week in the hopes of hearing the scratchy, echoing cry of a tom and calling one in.

On a crisp January afternoon in 2006, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources released 14 wild turkeys from Goodhue County in southeast ... of the National Wild Turkey Federation, the ...

Minnesota's general spring wild turkey hunting seasons begin April ... a diagonal swath of the state’s hardwood forests from southeast to northwest — to determine a rough population to use ...

Soon we can safely venture outside and stretch our limbs. If the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Seward Co-op have any say in the matter, we can also aim our 12-gauge shotguns in ...

Minnesota produces more turkeys annually than any other state. Its farmers raised 38.5 million birds in 2023, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, followed by North Carolina at ...