SUCCESS at terminal crossbreeding Charolais with Angus has helped Port Fairy district beef producers Michael and Jacinta Coffey keep selection pressure on their main pure black herd.

Agents yarded about 1800 cattle at Yea on Friday.

Fears that the coronavirus outbreak in China could affect today's wool prices came true.

Governments have been accused of sitting on their hands and doing nothing to help meat processing sector through a livestock "drought"