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Hi FJ I drive past that spot most days ,no weeds have started to grow back,I have now seen 3 plots like this one, none of them have any grow back. When I was on the farm in the UK we used Glyphosate to dessicate Oil Seed Rape, ,Canolar to you,that was a long time ago ,things might have changed since then. We have had 77 mm of rain so this month ,that is about aveage for us ,but last year we had 224 mm for July . I think this year will be a good year for farmers ,with the world problems crop prices are well up ,a lot of corn crops are being harvested the price is 8.50-8.90 baht/kg,and no penalties for high moisture ,I would say most crops are being harvested at least 30 % moisture ,which makes me think they must be a shortage of corn for livestock feed ,which I would say, is because of no or few imports of wheat and barley for livestock feed ,but it seems that malting barley for brewing beer is not in short supply . They still are a few crops of cassava being harvested ,that is 2.90 baht/kg a good price' . The next crop of corn is being drilled nearly all is being direct drilled ,but one guy did say he was worried that the soil would be too compact for direct drilling,I said wait for some rain then it will be all right. We are trying to make some grass silage ,with the showers not easy ,now the thrust bearing in the tractor clutch has gone,I took it to our local guy ,and he had a Ford 6600 transmission in bits ,he's taken the housing off not a gear or anything in it, total strip down,looks if a bearing on the gearbox main shaft went big time ,the main shat had just come back from the lathe man,next door to him, looks if he re-built the shaft by welding ,then turned it down, so a new bearing would fit ,a good guy ,he has done a few jobs for me over the years ,Thai's are good at keeping these old tractors going .

In a nutshell no,thatch in the UK comes from wheat straw ,and long straw verities too, and not a lot of wheat is grown in Thailand, as for South Africa I would not know, but I would say they would use a local grass. They are alternatives to Yar Ka, but it is finding them, หญ้าแฝก Yar Fark what is used to prevent soil erosion ,often found planted in newly dug ditches,better than Ya Ka thicker leaves lasts longer,you could grow some a quick growing grass I have seen ,similar to coconut leaves is,ใปจาก,Bie Jak,lasts a long time,but as I said it finding it.