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But, if the rumors are true, which I think they are, that person was helped? By him who we cannot name, and that person's elder relation helped him out a few years ago. You scratch my back........

In my area they have been using drones for a few years now, mainly spraying maize against Fall Army Worm, and against fungus on rice crops, also applying fertilizer on sugar cane. With a lot about cost is now 90 baht/rie no shortage work. So, nothing new around here, and a few other areas.

Re the new guttering that was done in two lengths, they did a big overlap using screws and a lot of mastic it is watertight, and as I said it was also part of the new house roof the guy gave us a discount on the guttering.

The lengths were 3 meters, and as I said they were soldered, and again the guttering was ok but the solder corraded the steel and caused the leaks. And you find that most guttering comes in 3-meter lengths. And most Thai guttering seems to the same standard having put up short lengths up in our cattle shed, buying it from different places it all seems the same.

We had some gutters put up a guy selling them from a traveling pick up, he soldered the joints, lasted 5 years, the soldered caused the gutters to rust, leaks every were. We had a new roof fitted they used the insulated tin sheets, the guy also made guttering, good quality steel long lengths no soldered joint, had it fitted as part of the job. It was 2500 baht for a 25-meter run, no down pipes as we collect the water vi a plastic pipe into some stone Ong's, the big stone jars. See if you have roofing place near you.

Where I am Lopburi, it is 650 baht/rie, up from 600 baht/rie, not really started in this area ,we had 80mm of rain last week ,wife's son-in-law said he had a combine booked for last Friday ,but the guy now says 17th of this month ,we have a lot of combines in this area second hand Jd's and second hand Class ,they do the maize and sunflowers, the tracked combines they do all the crops ,now mainly rice, that could be why our prices are a bit lower than else were. So, I have been told, son-in- law is getting 11 150/ton at 25% moisture that is for Hom- Marlie down from last year, not certain if they are any government subsidies this year. Still harvesting maize and mung bean maize I think is 7 baht/kg, mung beans last week was 23baht/kg, about the same price we got 10 years, the last time we grew them then they were picked by hand, and we got the mobile thrasher in the thrash them out. For a god few Yeras now, rice has been harvested by combine, like all of our crops seen very few crops of maize harvested by hand, labor being the main problem. Unless you are our next-door neighbour ,he cuts his rice crop by hand dries it then puts it on a sheet of blue shade cloth and runs over it with the tractor pulls the straw off the shade cloth and bags the rice.

I first come to Thailand to work along with a small groupmate, few months went by one of my friends and myself were talking, and this subject come up my friend was working in a office ,and was introduced to his work colleges, one girl was called Moi, which he remembered after a few days he said something like where's Moi he got some very odd looks ,after a while he found out why ,moi in the wrong tone is pubic hair ,and yes he said it in the wrong tone . My wife and myself use to know a woman called Moi the odd time I have had to name her, I remember this episode. I have been told they are 9 meanings for the word Khow I said once I am going to Ginn Khow, eat rice /have lunch, then someone said you are going to eat some one's knee, same word different tone.

Some government official saying something that he has no idea about, yet again. It has to do with the moisture of the crop for safe storage any corn crop rice, maize, barley, ect ,must be stored at 15% moisture, if not it heats up and the crop will be spoiled. Now most farmers harvest they crop at 25%30% moisture the reason, they what to sell the crop and get paid for it, and a lot of farmers can pay they debts off, selling the crop at a high moisture they get more money than if they sell the crop at say 15%, they are basically selling water. Most rice farmers do keep some crop back or seed for the fowling year that has to be dried they do that by sun drying leave in the sun for a few days then bag it up and keep it. Now if farmers kept all they crop back they would not be enough area to dry the crop. say 20 ton of rice drying will take up a lot of space and take a lot of time drying, then what, most farmers do not have any sheds for storage, building one would cost more than they would get back, and a shed that can keep water and rat's out. I rest my case.

That is correct Neem oil is good, it is available in Thailand, known as Nam-Man -Sadow. You grow vegetable's what scale? it is a bit different from growing veg in a back garden as opposed to growing veg on a commercial scale, here they are feeding 5000 school kids that is a lot of veg, as has been said nowhere the same.

I was thinking that, but I would take my Wave and sidecar on that route been down worse roads than that on it. Well done must have been fun.

Yes, and at the time I said to the wife, who is paying for all those Styrofoam boxes of food for all of the protesters, they were a lot of protesters and an awful lot of empty boxes of food, she said it was her at the top of the ladder, so it is of no surprise that the case was upheld.

That is true about suspending operations wife's granddaughter's husband works at our local sugar mill they are talking about suspending operations, good job they are no lamp post near the mill as the mill owners will be swinging from them, they are a thousand plus growers that send they sugar cane to that mill, 2 million tons last year, they will make shore of that, sugar cane is a high input crop a lot of money is at stake, it will not happen Also, our local CL supermarket is limiting sugar to 3 bags per customers they price is no more than anywhere else. They is a world sugar shortage Thailand is one of the biggest exporters of sugar, are they exporting a lot of sugar and leaving the home market short??

Should be,13,ถ.หิน เมืองหิน......Thailand

1500 GBP /month, in my town of Lopburi they is a Thai care home that gives 24/7 care, all for 20 000 bat/month. Probable ben said, the residents will not speak any Thai, if it is the normal Thai way, the staff will not be that preferent in English, should make some interesting conversions.

On a friends farm, he has just made this chicken shed, he has about 30 hens in it, as you can see, main posts are secondhand timber, main frame is eucalyptus rails, and he has used second hand tin sheets the floor is still dirt, but concrete would be better easer to clean. I would say to build this no more than 9-1000 baht, may be if that.

It is almost how long is a piece of string, that shed looks if it was made with new steel, I have a place near me that sells grade 2 steel ,it has a few floors in it but perfectly good enough for a chicken shed, and it is lot cheaper than new steel, ask around to see if they is a place like this near you(I am in Lopburi province), you might be surprised what a local recycling center has have a look. That shed is reasonable light, I have seen sheds like this made with eucalyptus polls, you would have to mount the on 1-meter concrete posts, but it would reduce you costs by half. Labour is the big X, it is getting more 4expenive, that block work would not take long, welding the steel frame is the time-consuming part. One thing I would be tempted to use insulated roof sheets, better for the chickens during the hot season. You could do a budget yourself, measure the steel and get a quote, steel sheets the same, and ask around local builders for an estimate, for doing the job. I would budget 20-25000 baht, as I said a lot cheaper if you use eucalyptus polls.

Had a look on line,found one place but the prices do not make sense ,wrote in $...... You could try Thai Facebook . In my area it is about 2.30-2.50 baht/kg,but this time of year not a lot of cassava is harvested,still the rainy season ,you need dry weather for harvesting ,what I have seen it is coming from light land easy to harvest.

Najomtien, that would be Pattaya ,you would have to go out of the city and find an agriculture shop that sells seed, sprays, and fertilizer. I live in a rural area and we have two of these shops and they sell a 16-16-16 compound fertiliser by the the kg ,just bagged up in to 1 kg bags from 50 kg bag,cost 40-50 baht ,I often by a kg for the garden.

Yep,after the hospital attack global benchmark prices increased $3/barrel or 3%. If it goes up any more, the government will put up petrol prices ,Christmas is still a long way off,regarding fuel prices . https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/18/oil-prices-rise

You are not a Thai,they like Carrabao compered to most/nearly all, Thai bubblegum music they are good ,and they have lasted a long time,as I said they are alright a tight band. And for some reason they like The Corrs over here.

Same as our local Wat, seen him 3 times now they, the security was handled by Sor Hor Thai military police ,complete with a paddy wagon parked near by ,nearly always a fight ,wife says you should not go . Always a good concert except one year when 40 minuets in in rained, end of concert, I have seen Pon Sit Cum Pee twice ,again a good concert,job to say who is better ,Pon Sit is a better guitar player.

If you have a nail/screw,sticking out of the tyre easy to repair,but if you can not see the hole the tyre will have to come off. One thing most certainly, less pinch flats,about the main cause of flats in bike tyres, low tyre pressure, pinches the tyre, or called not checking tyre pressure every 7-10 days.

That is the problem ,I know of some of our local garages that do cylinder re-bores ,we have a place near me ,but I have never heard of having a cylinder head skimmed. It is a case just asking around,some one will know .

From a few days ago, most Thais are working in Israel mainly in agriculture,earning the equivalent of 50 000 baht/month,a lot for a Thai,even if you take off agent fees living costs etc ,they can still save a bit. I know a good few Thais who have worked in the middle east over the years ,they have said they have done all right.

Where I am most of the locals smoke roll ups ,you can still get a small pack of Black Cat tobacco for a few baht,it is locally grown tobacco. Back in the UK, I know people who roll they own ,never buy it in the UK ,know someone who buys it across the channel,truck drivers, and sell it on,bit like what the op said.