This would require a significant article on it's own to discuss the total deterioration of the nation's scatterbred beef herd! Jim's cattle are best known for moderate frame size, easy fleshing, huge hindquarters, ultra prepotency,and....... most importantly........ the ability to be finished on grass alone. The grain feeding of cattle is another ass backwards philosophy introduced only in the last 50-60 years to compensate for the decline in genetic ability.

The depth of the inbreeding is so intense that for me to throw up a pedigree or two, or discuss how they have evolved as a line is to do a serious injustice to 5 lifetimes worth of work. In short Jim does say in his book "the fundamental cross in a line breeding program is of a half brother to a half sister". In addition to his book, he also does a very random newsletter (every couple of years or so). Several years ago he featured a piece in it about our genetics discussions.