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Try looking at a Thai calendar, it is 10th October,as the OP said 15 day, when the moon is full, of the 11th waxing moon. or month on the calendar. But where we are, people will go to the Tempel on the 11th to celebrate the end of the Thai lent.

Must have changed over the past couple of months .last I was on it you could almost swing a cat ,OK a small one ,but compared to say two years ago it was down by 50%.

Hi FJ ,we are drying slowly ,took the tractor up the field to cut some Napier grass for the cattle,more like driving through a rice field ,that will take some drying out . We had 248 mm of rain last month , and it is still raining about the same as in other years ,our flood come after 92 mm of rain over 3 days ,but the land was at saturation point before the flood . The water comes from a small river,at the back of our land in the dry season ,some years it dries up ,to now it is 2-3 times its size ,but the problem is 15 km up the road another small river feeds in to ours the water just can not get away and over it comes, about 1 km away hence the floods ,and our land sits low as well . Like you our cane is looking well ,some say sugar containt will be low ,almost too much rain , could do with some sun ,harvesting price will be well up this year fuel costs ,the past 2-3 years it has been 350 baht/ton to cut and haul to the mill ,like nearly all Thai agriculture commodities you never know what the price you get for your crop until you are about to sell it . Did hear,rice price of 90 baht/Tang,a Tang being the Thai equivalent of our Bushell 15 kg ,did not say what the moisture was ,I would say with a lot of flooding in Issan rice prices should be higher . Your 1500 kg will that be for 15% moisture ,like I said last year not many farmers around here sell a crop at 15% moisture ,most straight off the combine at 25-30% moisture . PS Did you ever get the tracks on your Morooka sorted out.

Our land yesterday afternoon ,we have been here 14 years now,we got flooded first time 10 years ago,and again last year ,and now this year ,but not as bad as before,but still bad ,global warming. The fence post are 4 feet tall,this evening most of the water has gone , our cattle still has some water in it ,but the cattle can still lie down in the only dry bit ,it will be at least a week before the cattle can go out grazing. the family have been out they're netting some fish About in the middle of the photo is some Nappier grass well grown ,we cut it for silage, but now a big ....when. Yesterday afternoon ,our local Or -Bor-Tor arrived with a bag of rice ,some Ma Ma noodles, cooking oil,and fish sauce ,must have been 8-9 of them ,we had our photos took during the handover ,a only in Thailand job.

If it already has produced fruit ,the new shoot will grow ,but it will not be a strong plant,and could well die, and will not produce any new fruit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63082400 The BBC has a good report . There have been rumours of powerful lobbying behind the scenes to sway the court's decision. The above line from Jonathan Head's report sums it up ,another bad day for the Thai people

Last time it was in December ,whether a bit cooler ,and they shut all the schools for 2 weeks ,stating less traffic on the roads ,getting in the way of the games traffic . Will they build a new stadium? or use the old one built in 2007 ,at Ragsit ,now used by Tamasat University.

I was paying 16% on a mortgage, as was my sister in 1978 . Now history is repeating its self ,back then the banks and building society were not giving any new mortgages ,ie me I was with the Abby National at the time ,they said no ,the Halifax, one of the few said yes,they said interest rates were all over the place. Wind forward to yesterday ,Virgin Money and the Skipton BS ,plus one other said they were not giving any new mortgages ,they said interest rates not stable . And today the IMF said last week's budget was not thought out ,they said it was more like what an emerging economy would do ,not a member of G7 and a shear holder in the IMF. Someone on the radio said it was something a country like Turkey would do ,and their economy is almost a basket case. Will the UK be keeping the IMF phone number handy ?

Ok ,clover and clover type cover crops will not grow in Thailand ,too hot ,they are some tropical legume grasses ,but they will grow tall,and you will be back to squee one, and it will need still need cutting ,and the seed will need planting/sowing, somehow,and the weeds will still probaly out grow your planted grass.

How step is the "Hill",can you safly get a tractor up it ,if so, ask around to locale farmers who have a tractor and grass toper ,get them in . They might charge for the job, or per rie . Or ,are they any cattle farms near by ,offer them the grazing ,say you have to use an eltric fence,get them to fence off say 2-3 rie at a time ,cattle will not eat it all ,and you wi;l probaly still have to top the rough bits , they do not eat ,still better than you cutting it all.

After last week's budget the government said it was budgeting on the economy improving by 2.5%,with that figure all the tax cuts etc should pay for its self,odds of that happening now is getting slimmer by the week Raising interest rates might make the pound more attractive ,but it will not do the economy any good ,making vital imports ,more expensive ,ie oil,and raw ingredients to make things.

You are right they had to rise interest rates ,and with the tax cuts ,and abandoning the NI increases ,he is banking on the countries' growth of 2.5% ,to pay for everything. Listening to Today on R4 this afternoon ,they had an article saying they could well be a word resection with all the interest rates going up, likely, then the next article on the program was a government spokesman ,saying we will have our 2.5% rise in the economy, unlikely. The last chancellor that tried a budget like this was Tony Barber back in 1972,then the rest is history ,high interest rates,3-day working week ,strikes all the time, up to a few years ago I still had the petrol coupons that were issued at the time ,but never used.

Durian, the fruit its self is in a hard shell,they will be very little smell . Where are you ,Durian's do not grow anywhere if no one in your area are growing Durian the odds are they will not grow . In my province of Lopburi we do not have any Durian ,I have tried 2-3 times now no joy,our local markets have them on sale all the time never seen any fruit for sale in the area.

Someone who does not know the Thai dairy industry,shotage of milk is due to Makro's the distribution chain ,all my local 7-11's,Mini Big C etc, always have a supply of milk ,no shortages. In my area,in fact, F and N a milk buying/bottling company have just built a new factory near me,looking at the future Farmers are complaining they milk price is not going up ,but if it did milk price in 7-11 etc would go up and they sales would drop ,like it did 10 years ago ,farmers are getting about 18.50 baht/kg/milk,price can go up and down depending on the milk quality. As for cows eating lush grass this time of year, a myth ,maybe a few ,but most are in the sheds all the time eating rice straw ,brought in and this time of year it is expensive ,one bale is about 45-50 baht,in 3 months time after rice harvest down to 25-30baht/bale,and this time of the year with all the rain cows have most of their health problems.

If you look at the Royal news on Thai TV in the evenings you see a Royal plus a lot in the entourage ,as has been said she is/was in Germany and France, this past week compete with large entourage ,as the invitation would have been for one ,maybe two people ,she could /would not go on her own ,no one to hold her bag.

If you were Thai ,you would want him back in. It was him that brought in the Thai pension , It was Tucksin that brought in monthly payments for handicap people ,ie wife's daughter. It was Tucksin that brought in the 30 baht Luk-Sar,heath care system You can see why his main base in Issan would like him back.

How about more people in Thailand paying some tax ,you pay in you get something out,my wife gets the 600 baht/month pension,she has not worked in a job that pays tax for 20 years ,and they are a few million more like her ,companies make a profit they pay some tax ,it should be the government's job to get the population to pay taxes ,they do in our own countries . The few people I know that pay tax are only paying 4-5 %.

Combining a crop of maize ............or ploughing a field ,this is near me taken a few days ago after about 40 mm of rain. Look at some of the leaves ,still green ,the owner said it has been 105 days since drilling ,to combining,normale it is 120 day to combining ,as I wrote before the farm I worked on in the UK our old fitter use to say, You think a crop is fit to combine,go on holiday for a week ,when you come back it will be fit to go ,I think this would be a good idea here. But this year the buyers are buying any crop,with a shortage of imported wheat, barley, and maize, it is what Thais cal "Mao",which translate as take all ,they will take all crops not bothered about moisture ,this crop must be 30% plus ,how it is being trashed out I would not know. The price is not bad last month it was 9.50baht/kg ,last week 8.80baht/kg,this evening talking to a group of farmers while a crop was being combined they said 8.50 baht/kg . A couple of weeks ago talking to a big buyer of maize ,he said they were paying 9.50baht/kg,then they were selling the crop to Betagro for 11.50baht/kg ,when dried down to 15% moisture , he is lucky the Betagro mill is only 15 km up the road ,so low transport costs he said a crop comes in at 30 % moisture he dries it down to 15%,he will lose 40gk /ton. Looking at my crystal ball,cassava prices are still good ,maize is well up on last year ,with the high fuel price sugar cane should be a good price ,I think rice prices will be good ,and from AN last week the governments is subbing farmers to the tune of a good few billion baht .

lines from ,The Who's record . Won't get fooled again. The new boss .Is same as the old boss. Or now, The new rules, Are as same as the old rules. They will get enforced,unless the BIB are short of money. You can Imagen the scene ,police stop a helmetless motorcyclist ,and says 2000 baht fine ,motorcyclist says I do not have 200 baht ,then what ,frantic phone calls home ,asking for the fine money or what ,no one has 2000 baht ,then what one impounded motorcycle. i would a lot of other people will have the same problem.

I was thinking that myself ,if they are poring some concrete it could be a golf driving range , that would just about fit on a football pitch ,is it now run by the school director? ,money going where.........

Nice calf ,I see it still has the white face from the Hereford.

Is it a carb modal or a fuel injection ?if carb modal do as Homburg said ,if it is fuel injection check the fuel pump .and the injector ,and the battery that could be dead ,if the ignition light does not come on ,horn not working battery is dead The air cleaner is under the headlight and is a paper element, if that got wet the engine will not run right .

He was a former Defence Minister........ If my memory seres me right he was born in the UK ,Whitby,was friends with Boris , if that means anything.

As FJ said what is in country should be good enough,lookat Nana Garden they sell fertilizer or Lazada. Of course the best thing you could do is increase the organic matter of the soil ,do this by making some compost ,or if you live near a dairy farming area ,get some cow manure add that to the soil ,or grow some Sun hemp or Mung beans and dig that back in to the soil. Some organic matter would put more back in to your soil than some bag fertilizer.