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They already do. the sugar cane mill will deduct money from burnt sugar cane sent to the mill, and farmers know that. I see Lopburi province is on the list of provinces with a lot of burning, in our area no cane is burnt, and we have 3 mills and a lot of cane. {were dose the op get their facts from.} Another reason cane is burnt, and a big one it makes the job easier for the cutters, as all the work is done on piece work, more you cut more money you earn, most cutter are Cambodians, Burmese and Laos, and as cutters are getting more difficult to find growers will burn cane. In our area most cane is cut by machine, but not so in all areas with a secondhand imported machine costing 2 million baht plus not cheap, and a grower near here has spent almost 100 000 baht on diesel for his machine this year @ 35 baht liter just to cut 120 rie the engine on a cane harvester is 250 hp, hardly environmentally friendly.

I had a Hornets nest in are cattle shed, one evening when they are all back in the nest, a log pole rag soaked in diesel set light to the nest ..................less than 2 weeks later they were back again, had the same problem using sprays we use the mosquito one. when they are gone we destroyed the nest ..............back they come again.

They would be better off sending a few plane loads of rice, especially to Syria, with the political situation in the country, they need more aid than Turkey. Or medical supplies to Syria only 20% of the people they are getting any aid.

Um, hardly porn after the last 2 MZ's,anyone remembered these ?a simple 250cc two-stroke single, This one was the 1976-1980 modal,I can remember reading a road test in Bike magazine ,the guy said ,he got on it ,then had to get off it to start it ,the kick-start is on the left-hand side , I knew a couple of guys who had them ,one guy was going to the Ise of Man TT on one,the day before he left he serviced the bike ,changed the spark plug ,went from Nottingham ,to a week in the Ise of Man and back no problems. What let them down was the styling.

From the video Missile from the east,story of racer Emst Degner ,interesting, amazing what they could do in former Eastern Block countries with limited resources. Not only 125cc bikes but 250cc as well.

Good question ,I know a few people who work,or use to work ,for the DPO ,The Dairy Promotion Organization of Thailand ,the milk producing arm of the Thai Denmark milk group,also a part funded government quango .being based at Mortlec ,in Saraburi province ,as you say some of they employees have been sent abroad ,and some can speck fair English But it seems a lot instead of being out in the field as extension offices,they end up doing a desk job shifting paper about ,as they are concerned a lot easer job than walking about someone's farm one who I have meet on a few occasions is now at Khon Khen Unverstiy ,I think,or was , teaching dairy science ? The last time we meet I was saying about the big problem with dairy cows ,mainly infertility due to the poor diet the main forage sauce being rice straw,being very short of energy and how to cure it she agreed with me about growing grass cutting back /out,rice straw,she used to lecher about it, but the dairy farmers would not listen still using rice straw ,I would call it being lazy ,easier just to pick up a bale of rice straw cut the strings job done ,than going out in to a field and cutting grass. As for Australian beef coming in to Thailand ,this has been going on for a couple of years ,most imported beef gets sold at Macro Big C etc ,where I would say it is a limited market, can not see that changing the market trends ,my wife and most Thais I know what bit of beef they buy they get from the locale market ,the local noddle shops etc certainly do ,for them the Macro beef would be to expensive . Small scale dairy farmers giving up ,it is already happening in my area as I said ,and you said ,feed cost just too high and the debt a lot of these farmers have either with the bank or their local milk centre ,the milk centres borrow money from the bank ,loan it out to the farmers at a point or two higher ,they get it back by deducting it from they monthly milk income,one farmer friend of mine said they are in debt to the bank /co-op about 600 000 baht that was the last time I asked them. Raw milk price has gone up now about 19 baht/kg depending on quality, most say still not enough ,better management is certainly needed and a change of ways ,both unlikely.

Hi FJ This thing was working just up the road from us ,field was sugar cane ,been ploughed ,now this rotary harrow has been over it ,the soil is our blak land this time of year very hard no rain .you can see the ploughed land on the left the harrowed land on the right ,he made a good job . The JD tractor is 135 hp the rotary harrow is 3 meters ,the guy said it cost 180 000 baht ,new they are 420 000 baht. This was last Friday ,I said a good rainstorm you could drill in to that ,then on Sunday like you, we had 10 mm of rain,even after 10 mm, if more rain was due ,which it will not be ,you could have drilled in to that field . Our farming press in the UK and others is and as has been for a while now, saying about direct drilling ,mainly for Maize ,Wheat, Barley and Canola ,OSR the reason less environmental impact on the land ,less soi disturbance ,and more cost efferent. This is the first time I have seen the above set-up ,he said the guy will be planting cane again ,the owner ploughed the field himself, Ford 7740, this guy was contracting 450-500 baht/rie ,the cost of the two together900- 1000 baht/Rie??, diesel at 35 baht plus /litre. Farming methods in Thailand are changing ,they still have a long way to go to catch up with the west ,the two photos are new here to me ,but in our countries they are on the way out.

Do you want a job??,come to my area ad explain that to our dairy farmers ,I have being trying for ........a lot of years without any luck. Growing grass it would be cut and cart ,not all farmers have access to water,not all have tractors some use a grass strimmer to cut the grass. They like beef farmers just used rice straw as a main sauce of forage ,and relay on expensive concentrate for production ,in this area a lot of dairy farmers are giving up can not make it pay mainly the small ones ,all claiming that concentrate prices are too high and they can not make any profit. I have being playing around with Google/YouTube,about making small bales of silage,make it during the rainy season feed it for the cool/hot season ,equipment will have to be imported ,saying that Yanmar make a small baler ,doubt if it is made in Thailand ,but it might miss out on import tax . I reckon that for mower baler rapping machine,4-500 000 baht ,might be cheaper if you can find second hand ,most farmers have a tractor about 45 hp would do,grass management would have to be good and of good quality. With the above you could cut back on concentrate milk yield/beef growth rates would increase ,the big infertility problem with dairy cows would improve,all round more money could be made. A dairy farmer near me spent 200 000 baht on rice straw last year for his 60-70 head of stock, this year could well be 300 000 with the big increase in price of rice straw . Doing the above, it would pay for its self in less than two years . Reality,it won't happen ,farmers would say too big an investment something new for them,they afraid it would not work, better off doing what they do now.

The cattle are a mix of Thai Native and Thai Native X Brahman,Interting how they are going to test the cattle for disease ,which would be Foot and Mouth disease ,and Lumpy Skin Disease . It would probably have to be blood tests ,I hope they have some handling fertilities those cattle will not be easy to handle . As for red meat enhancement,the place being Mudahan ,have they come from Laos or Cambodia ,if so the odds of them having a hormone injection which the red meat enchantment basically is will e slim . I would say these cattle will be clean ,the big cattle area I live in every few months Foot and Mouth comes to the area,ater last year's epidemic very little Lumpy Skin about . These cattle what vaccinating to prevent them getting anything from the local Thai cattle.

Or we had a craze for a while left hand mirror on the right side,right side mirror on the left,both facing in ,reason, so they can see they face the mirror while driving. This was 20 years ago,now they are all grown up and responsible people.

The problem is still fed costs ,those farmers that feed concentrate are still finding the prices is going up. I do not know about your area but here in our big dairy cow area ,Lopburi, rice straw is still expensive about 40 baht /bale ,normaly this time of year ,just after rice harvest it is 25-28 baht/bale being dry not a lot of grass in the fields /hedge bottoms to graze/cut ,and the cattle price is still low in all markets ,dairy and beef,. So anyone buying cattle know they are some cheap cattle out they, but the rearing costs are leaving a very low margin ,if you are working on borrowed money with rising interest rates ,does not leave a lot of profit. Your past post about quality cattle ,we sold that black Angus bull last month ,we got 33 000 baht for him ,with the present market not a bad price ,as the wife said 18 months ago we would have got 45 000 baht for him, and he was only 13 months old . The guy who brought him is a local cattle dealer ,he has brought cattle from us before ,he will keep him for another year and sell him on for beef ,by then he will weigh about 500 kg ,hopefully the prices will increase

No it would not handle big branches ,as i said mainly for chopping grass, but it will handle small branches, 6 cm or 2 1/2 inches is a fair-sized branch,asI said I hope the knifes are up to the job ,ie not made in China. As CLW said look at patipong.com,they do have some videos ,I have seen one at work, and one modal will handle branches.

My two stang's worth,this chopper is at our local shop ,the price was a sharp in take of breath,37000 baht, when I last asked 18 months ago it was 25-27000 baht. It has a 3 hp electric motor ,a bit under powered ,better off with a 5 hp Honda engine. But,the knifes on it are good quality ,some cheaper choppers have very thin knifes ,that dull quickly or get chipped /twisted . Around here used mainly for chopping Nappier grass for dairy cows ,some grass is well past its best feed value ,old and hard stems ,this thing cope's with it ok.

True ,but do you have bows of sugar at our restaurants ,for putting in food,not like us only for tea or coffee. My blood pressure, and weight are OK ,I have been trying to get the wife to cut down on sugar and salt and msg in food ,it is like trying to push sh@# up hill ,how can you eat food without the above she said,been doing it for 40 years plus. Like a lot of things here in Thailand some will never change ,and the Thai's and they almost an obsession with food, this will not change . Last year the wife's daughter was in hospital with Covid ,wife was with her for 10 days ,I was on my own buying market stall food some bags of curry was so sweet it was like eating Ka-Nom's Thai sweets ,or others that salty, that week the dogs did well. The problem will get worse, not better.

That is the problem ,they still think because they were they 3000 years they are still entitled to it now ,things have changed and moved on . Are you going to give the Uk back to Italy,becouce the Romans were in the UK 2000 years ago , and Italians have been living in the UK for a lot of years, same difference.

I would say it is quite easy,the fish head must have come from the Ber-lar ,the fermented fish ,Pla Mor is oftern used in Ber-Lar . If she was revolted by the fish head she should have ordered Som -Tam -Thai ,that does not have the fermented fish and crabs ,she ordered Som-Tam-Lao that does have the full works .

If it is a water heater, you would be better off with brass caps ,but is they is no reason why you could not use plastic caps. I have used plastic caps and plastic fittings, on plastic fittings with brass threaded inserts with no problems . Just make sure you use plenty of PTFE tape .

This subject comes up every few months ,have a look at the archives on this subject.

And yes those same people are probable up to their eye's in debt with credit cards,people nowadays what everything ,and just put it down on plastic ,and now that is coming back to bite them in the rear. Look at the UK debt to GDP, at the end of Q2 April -June 2022 101.9% of GDP.

They are a Claas dealership selling tractors ,have seen one in this area,cost would be the biggest draw back ,import tax,when the owner of that Claas forage harvester said 5 million baht I said a lot of that would be import tax he said yes. Again I can not see the combines taking off over here to expensive,in this area we have a few second Claas Dominator combines ,they have now been around for 50 years,the ones here are probable 20 ears old plus?. Also, we have a few John Deer combines ,again second hand. Most are the Thai made combines ,they can do rice, corn and sunflowers, mung beans,with a change of head. And a fair number of Kubota combines about, some the same as Farmerjo uses. Also the

For us this is the second year of baling cane stubble,it still goes to our local mill where it is used as fuel for boiling up molasses ,as far as I know the mill is paying about 900 baht/ton. Last year one guy had a round baler ,not seen it this year,i would say he could not get the weight in a bale,with haulage could not make it pay.,these square bales weigh about 350 kg The second set of photos is a first for us ,this guy is chopping cane stubble using a self-propelled forage harvester ,the double acrobat row's the stubble up then he chops it ,he said it goes for bio mass not so far from us . The numbers ,this chopper was 5 million baht a second hand import from Germany ,where they are made,he had two working in this field the following day he is getting 1000 baht/ton ,he said he uses 5000 baht's worth of diesel a day. What I forgot to ask what was the weight he got on the sip law and trailer,I would say 10-12 ton very dry ,as you can see ,and from a long way off ,an awful lot of dust.

Or Worst chewing gum I have ever brought. Buy one to stop one.

In this area it is now cut with a machine ,straight in to a trailer ,then to the mill ,most farmers can not afford a machine upwards of 2 million baht ,second hand imports ,this year they are being charged 380-400 baht/ton,cut haul to the mill. ,Last year right at the end of the season some fields were burnt,the queue for the machine too long, growers afraid the mill would close before they got they crop in ,so they burnt their crop and cut it by hand ,but the mill pays a reduced price on burnt cane, so they would not make a lot on burnt cane . We were saying last week how they are cracking on this year,a lot of machines about, so probably not a lot of cane will be burnt,wife's granddaughters husband work at the local mill ,he said this year they estimate processing 3 million ton of cane ,last year it was 1.5 million ton,alot of rain last year ,a lot of cane,but it seems sugar containt is low.

Yep I use Ivermectin ,I use the injection, 1 cc on our Thai medium-sized hounds work well ,and we live in a rural area, we have a lot of ticks. Again you are right about heart worm, one of our dogs had it 2 jabs of ivermectin cured it.

We give our dogs and cats the injection,one bottle that does two dogs /cats costs me 50 baht. And it works ,must not give to them when they are on heat ,they can not give birth cervix and ,birth canal does not open to allow birth only way is a C-section. At something like 800-1000 baht,where we are,to spay bitch, easy to see why they do not get done.