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The Songkram festival is also a religious festival, Thai new year, this family have a shop selling pots for gardens, concrete pipes etc. they also have a dairy farm, and farm growing some maize. They have lined up all they vehicles, to the left off picture is 5 motorbikes. Here they are having merit making ceremony to bring luck for the next year, green coconuts, oranges, on the table the pigs head has not yet arrived.

Ture, but you like me started to pay into your pension when you started to work, though tax's I was 18, worked 35 years, can now claim full UK state pension. My Thai wife has not worked in a tax paying job for 25 years, but she now gets the Thai state pension, you had not worked for 25 years in the UK how much pension would you get? (I know the SS will top it up). More Thais should pay tax, I live in a rural area, in our Soi most people are farmers pay little or no tax, the 4-5 dairy farmers will pay about 5-10 000baht /year in tax, depends on how much milk they produce, how much tax dose a rice farmer pay ,wife's daughter and son- in- law, rice farmers do not pay any tax and had an income of 110 000 baht. The more tax you pay the more you should get back, wife's granddaughter worked at 7-11 for a while and paid about 4% in tax, you do not get a lot in return for that.

Problem with buying the Pacific 99verity you will probable have to buy it in a 10 kg box enough for a few rie and it would be a livestock feed verity ,I would say the op would only want 1 or 2? kg for the garden? It will self-seed but second time round the yield will be a lot lower, better to use it as an annual plant, sowing seeds every year. As for growing it in a mixed sward, sorghum will grow a lot taller than the other plants, could be a shading problem. also Sorghum likes lot of fertilizer, it is a hungry crop, growing it with other legumes, that do not need little or no urea ..........,, yes it will pick up some N from the growing legumes, but will it be enough. Aphids can be a problem, they will attack the flowers, a lot will depend on the weather ,we were lucky we had no problem with aphids, it is a just depends. The photo the op posted, that looks like what we grew for livestock feed ,try a kg from say Big C, and seed can be kept back for the following year.

As FJ said, it use to be a popular crop, we grew it once it fell out of favor as a difficult crop to harvest, seed heads use to be cut by hand, use to itch, the skin, all cut on pice work need to keep going to make any money ,payed per sack cut. Now we have combines to harvest the crop, we had one in, very little is grown, seems if cane and cassava has taken over Some farmers in my area grow white Sorghum and cut it for cattle feed, what FJ said about Jumbo, Jumbo is a hybrid a cross of Napier and Sorghum ,as he said feed to cattle in the cool season, it has no seeds, like Sorghum . The Sorghum for humans is normally the white seed sorghum the brown seed is mainly used as a livestock feed, humans can eat the brown seeds, but saying that looking at Lazada it is the brown seed they sell for humans, must be newer verities around.

You have just answered my question, I was going to ask do you use any seed dressing, seed going in to the land dry ,no problem with ants ect,is Flea Beatle here in Thailand.

Local cane grower spending some of his money from this year's crop. You can see the bore hole on the right and the cane in the background, and the old set up at the back, a po-pop engine mounted on a frame with the pump . He is using drip tape system, working well considering how hot it is.

I was also out yesterday spreading some cattle muck on our Nappier grass, I load it up with a rear end loader, then shovel it out on to the grass with the misses driving the tractor up the field, and yes it was hot. To quote Nole Coward "Only mad dogs and English men (and now Aussies) go out in the mid-day sun". The reason I was doing it now rain is due this weekend ?? while the muck was nice and dry easy to handle, a good rain on it will help to wash it into the land, the wife looked at the Nappier grass and said is it dead? I said no just the dry season, but normally it still grows, abet slowly in the dry season, this year no grow at all.

Very little Thai beef is exported, most farms are not geared up for that type of beef production, one reason to produce any beef cost need to be kept down, which Thais cannot do too much of a reliance on expensive concentrate, not enough on growing any forage for themselves .so keeping costs down. I know you can buy Thai Angus beef in prepacks frozen in Macrow if the same company has any for exports I would not know, same as the Thia French beef company they do export if so it would not be a lot If you look at a Thai mountain very little if any, area for producing beef, maybe a few farms with a few head of stock selling for the local market as for export very little if any. if so, would it be going to China I would not know, but I would say no . Thailand doses have a market for exporting in calf dairy heifer's, a few years ago a lot went to Vietnam, Malasia is another market, I think they are still sent down they .

No, I was wrong the wife just said 90 day, looking at my old records about right ,but they do not ripen evenly so say 100 days.

Your area should be like ours, find a shop selling seed and fertilizer, sprays etc. they should sell Mung beans, they will sell it for seed, will the seed have any seed dressing on it ??you will have to ask last lot we brought a few years ago did not have any seed dressing on . Or, not now to dry ask a local farmer if he will grow a rie or two. Last lot we grew not a bad yield we got 500 kg from we think it was 7 rie. Easy to grow, growing to harvest about 100 days.

As a lot of farangs in Thailand know that the number 9 is very auspicious, more than one person has said about 99 coming up as the 2 winning numbers, and most say it has been a lot of years since those numbers come up, wife's sister won 6000 baht on the underground lottery with 99. As for a computer picking the numbers ,,it could if it knew all the numbers for the past XX years odds of probability comes in to play, but the odds are still very low, basically I would say BS. That Chat GPT will be a busy little bunny on the 16th as a lot more people will give it a go.

FYI, Cassava harvest is about finished for this year just a few odd fields to do, as it is for most years , there will not be a lot of damage they sugar cane is all done, no corn to dry just a few rie of irrigated corn. So, again the OP should do his homework saying, "It also urged farmers to make efforts to prevent crop damage". Very few crops to damage ...if any, only damage could be the roof on my cattle shed, which has seen better days.

Like you I was here it was him that put up all the immigration fees, marriage extension 200k to 400k retirement extension from 400k to the 800k visa fees 500 baht to 1900 baht, daily overstay fine 200baht/day to 500 baht/day, the reason for the increase ? he said at the time farangs were getting a good exchange rate, Pound Sterling was about 60 baht/pound, and they could afford it. He used to give his weekly address on Thai radio a friend of mine and his Thai wife use to listen he said it was often anti-foreigner. But Thai's say look what he did for the poor 30-baht heath care scheme brought the Thai pension helped the sick and disabled, wife's autistic daughter got a payment. Someone said people where only interested in money, true but if you do not have a lot to start with anything free from the government would be welcome, and not forgotten, hence him and his party /family are still very popular.

Do what Yingluk did, do a runner to the Cambodian border, with as rummers had it, with the help from him now at the top of the ladder .

Do what Yingluk did, do a runner to the Cambodian border, with as rummers had it, with the help from him now at the top of the ladder .

Do what, a gold shop paying out, not around here for certin, or many other areas, one shop was our local photocopy shop, family members sell the lottery tickets, collect winnings from the shop. So, does that mean if I get the last 2 numbers right 2000 baht, pay out (minus 20-40 baht for transaction fee) Somchai ,who I brought my lottery ticket from cannot pay me I must go to the bank? Jurey will be out on that one.

I think this one, is look at the date.

We have pump, pumping from a pond it goes all over the garden, never a problem, except now the water level has dropped and it is getting near the sediment at the bottom of the pond. Point, we use a straight pipe from the pump in to a 90 deg elbow, as I said works fine, same as when the pond was full and now with not a lot of water in it Then the land got flooded last year I had to pump water out of the pond so water on the land could flow into the pond, had to rig up a new system, very slightly less head, same pump this time I used 45 deg bends, worked just as well as the 90 deg bends same flow rate.

So, that will mean on more than one occasion the thread I am reading I know a bit about it, and not all the facts are correct, so will the facts now be more correct, I not going to hold my breath. In my world of working with dairy cattle this is known as AI, Artificial Insemination.

I have brought celery in Big C, that was imported, I would say so is parsley, I have grown parsley in the UK, like a lot of plants grown in our countries they will not grow over here, just too hot like now, or like our land in the rainy season, just to wet.

And how many of these up-country immigration officers have enough English skills to deal with any problems they will have at Swampy. Last time I come though had a problem with my re-entry visa, got took away from the booths to a desk in the corner . I was just glad I could speak Thai after a 6 hour delay with my in-board flight, and another 45 minuets sorting this RE visa out I was not happy, if that had been some one that could not speak Thai, or an IM officer with bad English skills ..........Welcome to Thailand.

Come across this from the time Mick Grants H1-RW 500cc triple won at the Isle of Man Senior TT in 1975

Yaah the government decided that the Japanese 250cc were getting too quick for inexperienced learner riders. Hence bring it down to 125cc for learners and a max of 12bhp on the engine, the manufactures did that by putting restriction on the intake of the engine.

I paid 60,000 baht late last summer for a New 125 Wave electric start, mag wheels, so 62,000 baht now would be right. The high price difference between the 110 and 125 Wave, it has always been about 10,000 baht, as I was told the 125 is in a different tax bracket, hence higher price.

As far as I know one bank failed in 1995 ,The Bangkok Bank of Commerce, the 1997 crash no banks crashed.