I bought a bull sight unseen last spring to clean up on the yearlings and canned him cause he didn't have fully hooded eyes or good enough hair.  Its funny, two years ago a guy from New Zealand and a guy from Australia came to view the cattle and all they could talk about was how good the eye sets and tail sets were on the cattle - they really must pay attention to that.  I say it is funny cause how often do you hear guys from the US talk about eye set, they talk about pigment but not so much eye set.  That pretty interesting.

THe angus breed has done an excellent job of developing avenues for their end product.  That is exactly what I think is keeping the Herefords from coming back stronger - just not as many avenues for Hereford influenced beef.  For a retailer the safe choice is choice beef and/or angus beef.