US Perspective—17.02.09
17/02/2009
Calf measures
Throughout 2008, the number of calves US cattle farmers sent to slaughter kept going up, week by week. In ordinary times, we might have hoped that this would lead to greater availability of calf hides to tanners, and of calf leather to footwear companies and other finished product manufacturers—at lower prices. The times, however, are far from ordinary.