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IsaanAussie

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  1. I'm still around here in Sisaket but still absolute rubbish growing tomatoes. Can I suggest you check out "Gordon Tickle" on YouTube. He is a Pom in Chiang Rai with the greenest thumbs I know.
  2. Depending on conditions (basically water level) either 700 or 800 baht/rai More reservoir discharge than rain. But yes this year has seen paddies very wet. Little wind but very sloppy conditions which meant lot of lodging. Times have changed. No real or iron buffalos ploughing any more. No DC60 bag filling machines let alone teams of hand cutters and thrashers mounted on clagged out light trucks. People here aren't traditional rice farmers any more, they are rice producers that minimise work and cost. The romance is disappearing
  3. Two things now lodged in the our villager's brains. First forget small harvesters, too much mess with dirt and sticks picked up, and too high a loss rate. Two large harvesters did most of this area between them. producing a much cleaner paddy harvest. The second thing is, sell the crop straight off the harvester without moisture testing yielded better bottom line. The two big guys both ran large tip trucks that took the "damp" rice to be weighed and returned with the money. Farmer then paid for the harvest services. Quick and easy. From the weight/sale docket I saw, they were paying about 10.2 baht. We used pickup trucks to move bulk rice we would keep. That was then dried on blue nets and bagged. In total about 120 bags.
  4. From a pond to rice paddy? Why not set up a syphon system from 4" plastic pipe?
  5. Time will tell. We definitely need more rain so far we have had just enough to keep the surface moist-ish!
  6. We got great weed treatment this year, no idea what it was, but still no weeds in the rice and no pre-emergent spray used. Could have had something to do with me telling the BIL I would not be paying for urea this year at these prices to grow weeds before we started. Also could be him realising how many weed seeds we have in last years crop when he got left to mill a few bags for the family.
  7. Seems vaguely familiar label....... ???
  8. Of course it is possible, this is Thailand. For the farmer, the question is what is the volume of rice needed and the price paid. We grow Hom Mali 105 (jasmine) and mill our rice on farm for family use and for retail sale. Anyone that wants me to grow another type of rice has only got to ask and stump up for the costs. Friends grow many different organic heritage types. Anything is possible if there is a market.

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