INPUT savings of up to $1500 a paddock have been achieved at Neville Kernich's Freeling farm through the use of Cavalier and Silver Snail medic.
Neville, who farms with wife Bronwyn and parents John and Pam, runs a 700-hectare property mostly dedicated to cropping, with 350 Merino ewes run as a self-replacing flock. He grows durum and bread wheat, malting barley, peas, beans, canola and medic and oats for hay. Cavalier medic is grown as a seed crop.
Neville started growing Cavalier five years ago - recommended by Rosewothy Rural Supplies - because of its high seed and dry matter production.
* Extract from a full report in Stock Journal, October 9 issue.