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I’ve heard Tony Buxton has passed 

Read that Maurice Bromley passed on during the week in the Philippines. Top guy. 

38 minutes ago, TKDfella said:

Yes, I mentioned this on the April 3rd thread post #12. I wrote 'AHS is native in Zebra which carry the virus but don't appear to suffer. According to what I read a couple of years ago non-native horses in Africa had a very high mortality rate and was not controlled until a vaccine was produced last century. So my question would be...were any Thai horses in close proximity to a Zebra, perhaps one recently introduced to a Thai Zoo?' My guess would be that Zebra had been imported but unchecked.

You got it. Some poor import protocols or a little oversight ....

Why didn’t they just nail him for no work permit?

20 hours ago, Denim said:

This bloke is a vile toady.  

 

Should be sent to Wuhan with a one way ticket on a fact finding market investigative mission .

Come on Paiboon is just a old boy loyalist 

Boys you are way off the mark.

Gyphosphate is off patent. So most nowadays is formulated in china by sinochem.

Monsanto Bayer interest is in having that varieties that are tolerant of the product when sprayed over the top a few weeks after germination to eliminate all weeds. As a farmer this is a great technique as it is cheap and no crop damage. There are many other herbicides on the market but requires more skill to avoid crop damage or repeat applications.

in thailand glyphosate is used to kill off weeds on crop land before planting for a clean start. Often this can reduce soil erosion during the wet season in particular on the uplands. Other residual herbicide which could be alternatives are sold in thailand because there are greater stewardship required.

Glyphosphate is a great peasant farmers tool. 
now lorsban is also a very all purpose insecticide for control of soil insects that eat your seeds after planting. as there isn’t any alternative products for that problem I think since there are only very weak arguments for that product which are being voiced in Kalifornia . 

paraquat is a product that shouldn’t get on your skin but as for being in good at harvest is very very low. It is a  herbicide that clears out the green of leaves of weeds and when they are small will kill the plant by browning the out. So something one wouldn’t be using on near harvest product. Most paraquat in thailand is used under corn crop as it doesn’t enter the stem.

now I’m only guessing now but me thinks the USDA interest is that it wouldn’t want to see a ban on gylyphosphate as it may be later linked to a block on soybean imports to thailand from the US.

further I would think of farm output downturn due to weeds without glyphosate 

ING river flows north then into Mekong 

Stealth tax?

I thought the girlfriend was Thai

On 3/20/2019 at 4:41 PM, jonwilly said:

I would like to bring to the attention of fellow CM folk that Roy Hudson passed away yesterday Tuesday 12th at approximately 17.00.

His son Eric was in attendance having driven up from Bangkok to be at his fathers side.

Roy was aged 99 and had lived in CM since 1960.

He had spent his last 3 years in the Care Home in Mai Rim, following the death of his wife.

https://www.careresortchiangmai.com/index.php?viewID=2

I usually visited Roy once a week and can only praise the Care he received from the nursing staff, most if not all of the young ladies being Northern Thai people.

Roy's health was reasonable until one year ago when he contracted a lung infection. He never fully recovered in my opinion, having been in the RAM ICU and then normal ward before returning to his bungalow at  Susuwan Care home Chiang Mai.

He will be greatly missed by his son Eric and daughter Amanda who is flying in and due to arrive today Wednesday. 

Roy was regarded by all who knew him as the Senior Brit, a wise and understanding Father figure.

I enclose a memoir of Roy Written in January 2007 concerning Roy's duties during WW II.

http://www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2010/20100706.asp

 

Good Bye Old Warrior

It was a Honour to know you.

I learned much about Life and People from you.

 

john

Sad news. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Roy was a good friend. RIP

2 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

I enjoyed the remake of the Quiet American with Michael Caine.

 

Dunno if it was filmed in Thailand.

 

Of course the American in the book and film adaptation is 'quiet' because he's dead...

 

Grahame Green nailed it there.

 

I love the opening narrated by Michael Caine... "I can't say what made me fall in love with Vietnam. That a woman's voice can drug you? That everything is so intense? The colors, the taste, even the rain. Nothing like the filthy rain in London. 

 

They say whatever you're looking for, you will find here. They say you come to Vietnam and you understand a lot in a few minutes, but the rest has got to be lived. The smell: that's the first thing that hits you, promising everything in exchange for your soul. And the heat. Your shirt is straightaway a rag. You can hardly remember your name, or what you came to escape from. But at night, there's a breeze. The river is beautiful. You could be forgiven for thinking there was no war; that the gunshots were fireworks; that only pleasure matters. A pipe of opium, or the touch of a girl who might tell you she loves you. And then, something happens, as you knew it would. And nothing can ever be the same again."

It was filmed in vietnam 2002?

That’s good news

Well. That’s taken enough time to reach an obvious decision 

I read that Graeham Monaghan of cricket sizes fame and other cricket interests in Chiang Mai passed away. A true gentleman and sure to be missed. 

Eat tofu 

Big problems further south too in Laos on Eastern side

No Geylang tour?

Hope yet for Mr T

Great. Clean up of CA and that cocky team is now due

Way to go k Paiboon 

Problem being without herbicides the weeds strangle out the crop. Alternative is mechanical cultivation which may work a little early in a growth cycle. But also this disturbs soil and opens it to erosion which is the worser of two evils. 

Anyway this is a non discussion as there won’t be residuals in groundwater found. 

Rather thai agri cos focus on stewardship of soil and farmer labour safely as soils in tropics are valuable and vulnerable and there are very few virgin lands to develop in the future . 

So to meet population growth farm intensity / yield has to index upwards

These 3 chemicals are a strange pick to target. 

Glyphosphate with is recent re approval in the holy EU - a herbicide. Paraquat a non residual broad spectrum  herbicide used before planting of seed to clean up small weeds. 

Thirdly chlorpyriphos a common soil insecticide with known  week residual and only just re approved in California . 

Very few alternates for thai farmers in corn production cycles if removed from the market. 

Congratulations to Ben.