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Last week 2 reports on the BBC World service and Radio 4, said the same thing: the two big guns Thaksin and Hun Sen, metaphorically, are locking horns, but as with most conflicts, it is the people in the middle that take all the brunt and pain.

A dish of Rad-Na 97 baht, in my rural area we can get a Rad-Na for no more than 50 baht, but saying that, me and the wife had a very average Pak-Grabow, 60 baht /dish, it was lunch time we were the only ones they, wonder why. As has been said just to many food outlets, Thais think they cannot do anything else, lets sell food ,half the wife's family do that, her niece is ok, been selling noddle's for 10 years now ,she is wise and keeps her prices down, always customer's in they,does all right.

It was on Thai TV most of the day that we went to China, what was he doing, after some big things that bang, a bit more modern than the Soviet era thing they have. China will say, OK we will be opening a few more factories in your country?

Thinking back, when his sister did a runner to Cambodia. How things have changed.

I would say, and as you know, Thais think of quantities, not quality, they cut grass well past its best feed value the classic is Nappier,not my favorite grass we grow it and make silage. Thais will cut it way past its best, feed value probable same as rice straw. If grass is managed well, with fertilizer use, and cut at the right stage, at no more than 45 days ,you can get some good production from grass.

True, but finding some forage legumes, they are two in Thailand ,Centrosem, and Stylosanthes (Stylo), you could try the Thai DLD, Department of Livestock Development, they have a website Can be grown with grasses, but competition from some grass verities will crowd out the legume. We feed our cattle Leucaena, a tree legume, we cut it every day in our area, they are a lot of other farmers rearing Goats they cut and feed it to their Goats, at 22% protein for the leaves it is a good feed. Protein is important for cattle, but energy is more important, most books on diet for cattle will say for, energy is the limiting factor for production, here in Thailand with there dairy cows it is very limiting/deficient.

Your average Thai farmer is already in debt to the BAAC ,a government backed bank for the farmers and farming co-op's, with the prices farmers are getting they is not much chance of the business model being sustainable, corn farmers in my area are losing they crops due to no rain, a few crops that ae being harvested the price is not enough to make any money . I would say these soft loans would be though the BAAC ,so not a lot of change they. Remember Thai farmers, bar rice farmers, like farmers in our country's do not get any government subsidies

You are right, it is the No fault eviction in the new law that is killing the UK property to rent,the last government ran out of time to pass the bill, so the new government far as I know, have passed the bill,one of the few times that has happened. I have a flat in the Uk out to rent a couple live they , they have been they 3 years, I have not put the rent up ,they pay every month, never a problem, going to try and keep it that way.

Been a bit quiet on here of late, well a tale of 2 farms, as the crow fly's only 12 km apart. Was out and had to stop while a combine was emptying his tank of corn/maize, asked the crop owner how much a kg he was getting for his crop ,he said 6.75 baht/kg, which is not a lot,I think less than last year, moisture was about 30%,he rents the land 1500 baht/rie, cost of ploughing, sowing , seed this year is 200 baht/kg , spraying for Fall Army Worm, now a big problem, need to spray at least 3 times, most farmers now use drones, cost has come down now about 80 baht/rie. All in all he will not make a lot, this block was about 50 rie. Second set of photos, only 3 kg from our place, a dairy farmer chopping a crop of maize that has not had enough rain ,it has some cobs , but very little grain that will not grow any more, the guy chopping it will be feeding it to his dairy cows, which will make them happy, a big change from rice straw he paid 6000 baht for 10 rie other dairy farmers will be going the same thing , over the next couple of days. The land again I think is rented, he would have lost a good few thousand baht. he will wait for some rain and drill the crop again. Not the first time this has happened, no rain corn crop has grown,18 years ago we lost 40 rie of corn no rain, and it will not be the last

US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? Have a look at the BBC web site about this ,it is where this quote comes from .

The OP wants to do their homework before posting, it is almost impossible to find someone selling lottery tickets for 80 baht, nearly all are now 100 baht, some selling at major sites in big cities are selling them at 120 each. With the wife's family, most lottery numbers are brought on the underground lottery, and I would say it is the same with a lot of family's

If another country invades at say, 12.05pm, nothing will get done until 1.00 pm with Thais nothing will get done until 1.00 pm,lunch/food comes first. Think, all government departments close at 12.00 for lunch, even our outpatient depo of the hospital closes at 12.00 for an hour. Would the military be any different, no

They have a big drug seizure, a lot of photo opportunities and people standing around. Then it is in the front door, and out the back door. Word on the street at the time , probably true the reason for the coup against Thucksin ,he did a lot to do away with drug dealers, the army generals were not happy about the loss of income from selling their drugs, so they got rid of him , Welcome to Thailand

Do not laugh; why not put a sidecar on a motorbike? That would be safer than riding a solo motorbike. I have had a hip replacement and do not enjoy riding a solo bike, so I fitted a sidecar a few years ago, now, no problems. But, can you get a DL in Thailand by riding a motorbike and sidecar for the test? I have my doubts.

Israel is just doing Trump's dirty work and getting away with it, if the USA went in the same way they would be something said. And Trump went back on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, back in 2015 known as the nuclear deal, since then things have got worse, and we are where we are now. Everyone is saying, Bomb them back in the stone age, a look at Gogel, the population of Iran is about 91 million, what about them.