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BTW I have 50 rai for sale. Cane is coming into it's fourth year. 3 wells, a pond and an almost complete building for workers and a house number so that the power company will supply a meter to pull electricity in from the main road. On a main paved road not far from Sri Bun Rueang in the province of Nong Bua Lamphu. 160,000 per rai.

Hello everyone,

I plan to do a borehole just 5 KM west of the main road Korat- Khon Kean, opposite the junction to Phi Mai, to supply 13 Rai of land for whatever ( still doing research ). There is a proper road to it and electricity to be pulled for around 50 meters. According to uncle in law there is water at around 25 meters depth, but got a sceptic opinion from a friend that water might be salty !!! Could it be fixed by reverse osmosis and is it too expensive ? Any opinion or advice would be appreciated , thanks

Check with locals to see what their water is like. If they are farming around you I would think that the ground water is fine.

Question? Has anyone with large operations ever considered importing a vineyard tractor? These are used a lot by people with large vineyards and corn growing operations.

How tall is your variety of sugar cane? This thing will plant, cultivate and fertilize. I've seen them for sale used. I would think it could make money using it on other peoples' farms???

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Cane in it's final stages is pretty tall (4M +) , but would not require any work at that stage. If a person did not spray on time, or could not for some reason, I could see a use for this unit for spraying or for a final application of fertilizer. Once the cane gets much over "head height" people do not fertilize as it's too difficult to walk and broadcast by hand. If you were going to fertilize again using this tractor, that would also mean extra cost for the cane and I'm not sure that one more application would be worth it. especially given the specialized equipment. The bottom line is already pretty thin in this business and the Thais know how to invest as little as possible from what I can tell.

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How much are you paying for your rental trucks?

One day all the "war on drugs" supporting folks will be dead and then the next generation can get going with an approach that is a little more realistic and also less profitable for the criminals.

In my opinion there is not enough money in cane as a land owner, never mind as a lessee at 3000 baht per rai. She can harvest and transport herself which is a big bonus, but I'd rather be the guy leasing the land out and doing nothing. For someone who cannot cut and transport them selves, 3000 baht for land takes pretty much every baht of profit out of it.

300-500 rai of owned land with no money owing on it and all the equipment for working the land, planting, spraying and all the way to harvesting and transporting is a good business. I figure the biggest problem would be finding all the help you need when you need it.

jopham, those are good amounts to produce, even the bottom amount is well above what people around us could only dream of achieving,

brother in law "rents" a small amount of land from us. he does all the work himself (with wife children) even cuts and carts to the middle man. his best harvest was under 8 ton a rai last year, that's on the best land too. other land less than this. other sugar around us looks worse then his, so hate to think what people get back. the only way he made any money was by doing all the work themselves , I been looking at sugar for a good while and i think the only way to make money is to have all the machines yourself and plenty of land and very good returns per rai, this in turn means massive investment! good on you and your wife from what you are achieving.

people around us (udon thani province) rent the land out much cheaper. i have heard of people paying 500 baht rai per year. thai people who i know that farm on your scale would not pay much more than this also. alot do the free third year deal, people seem to be happy with this here.

do you ever sell early? for the first time ever we had some cash buyers here the other day. would not give me a firm price on "good" sugar. got the impression the price that would be offered was 350-450 per ton.

burn it and let it rot before selling it at that price.

Ok. Thank you for clarifying that for me.

Also being recognised as the father is what wifey tells me that someone\ at the amphur told her. Not sure how accurate that is. What she said in Thai to me was that I have the right of being the father of the child as my name is on the birth certificate.

Not sure. I've read that fathers typically need to go to the amphur to do "something" in terms of paperwork to "legitimize" the child. Doesn't make sense to me either. Perhaps, I've misunderstood or it's only in cases where the parents were not married before the birth of the child or in cases where custody and/or guardianship needs to be determined. I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me.

Hi. I am somewhat confused. Wifey went to amphur today to ask about this. She was told that there was no reason to as I am registered on the birth certificate, we are married and I am recognized as a legal parent of the child.

Can someone enlighten me as to why I would need to do this? Child is 1 month old and has Thai birth certificate.

I find it interesting that the project will open to bidders and then construction design will happen later. Must be a misquote or something. How could you possibly bid on something that was not yet spec'd?

Not sure how relevant it is but I am researching this subject now, being a new father in Thailand. My daughter is entitled to Canadian citizenship regardless of where she is born. First step in getting a passport is to obtain a certificate of citizenship for her from Canada. Then it is a simple process. I pass this right to her wherever she is born because I was born in Canada. She will do the same for her children if they are born in Canada. If they are not born in Canada, they will have no right to citizenship in Canada.

I thought at 7 years a child must have an ID card, not that 7 years is the earliest when a child can get it.

"Must" is correct.

yeah?? what document is that?? I did not sign one today. I have had a few overstays, but not a chronic thing.

A Thai can wire money abroad no problems. He should have an account there (U.S.) He should do it before he goes. Alternatively, he could transfer money from his (Thai) account online to a family member in Thailand and have them wire it (to the U.S.) for him.

That's my understanding of what the officer at Bangkok Bank told me. I was trying to transfer money back to Canada but was experiencing limits and "procedures" I was told that my Thai wife could transfer money to my account in Canada in any amount with any frequency without problems. I think that the key may be "family member wires money for support".

Hope that helps

the smut must go on!

Yea, I'd be super surprised if he really shows up.

Why? He apparently has money. Money is trump in Thailand.

I'm not so sure I would call Mr. Hall brave. I think he made a huge miscalculation. You need to be really careful what you say in Thailand. Everyone knows that. Leave Thai things to Thais.When they have had enough, they will speak up. If they don't, that's their own business or karma as they say.

I wish him well and hope that he gets out of the country. I fear nothing good will come to him here at this point.

The problem with ebola is that it is contagious long before there are symtoms. Very scary.

Ive never bothered to measure pressure in my lines. I run as much drip tape as I can, getting decent, even flow. Every line has a valve. I open them till I open too much, then back up. It's not really rocket science. If trying to irrigate up hill, I pump it up then irrigate down. If you can't irrigate enough or as much as you think you should be able to, get a bigger pump. Drip tape is rated flow per dripper which you can calculate into flow per meter which can be calculated as flow per rai per hour. Your pump is rated as well. So you should be able to calculate how much tape will run off of a particular pump given the flow/pressure rating of the pump.

The only thing that having too much pressure will do or cause is cause you to exceed the limits of your pipe/valve/filter/pvc components. You'll have leaks and things will fall apart. So, run more line, decrease the output of your pump or instal a bleeder valve to decrease pressure in the system.

Simple math and trial and error works for this stuff. Like I said, not too much can go wrong.

Thanks for your help.

To be sure, I'll carry some funds with me.

I don't recall. Are there ATMS between the plane and Immigration?

May as well get Thai baht there if I can.

Ok. I was just searching the answer for that. Thank you.

When I left the country, I asked if there were "other consequences for the overstay aside from the fine, and was told "no". But there have been "reports" of rule changes.

Anyways, thank you for your prompt replies.

Really??.. That's it?? And how much cash is that?