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calf
(redirected from calf crop)

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calf1
1. the young of cattle, esp domestic cattle
2. the young of certain other mammals, such as the buffalo, elephant, giraffe, and whale
3. a large piece of floating ice detached from an iceberg, etc.

calf2
the thick fleshy part of the back of the leg between the ankle and the knee

calf [kaf]
(oceanography)
(vertebrate zoology)
The young of the domestic cow, elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, moose, whale, and others.


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Cattle feeders and packer buyers will have to continue to fight to keep numbers near capacity as the nation's calf crop will apparently be even lower this year than last.
Jeanne Bernick Turning the corner USDA expects this year's calf crop to be down 1% from the previous two years.
Cattle numbers are on the uptick because of a larger calf crop and an increase in live imports from Canada (from zero before the border re-opened).
 
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