farmerjo

It is all riddles,new and old. TBH the better versed on here i find hard to understand a lot of the time.

That is correct,recently i tried to book a domestic flight with my card. Thai smile said they needed my name in english which the card is in Thai. Long story short rather than walk back to car to get passport i wrote my name down on paper in english and they issued ticket but i had to show passport to get on the plane. Mine is renewal type of card as under 60.

Hi IA Not sure what their thinking is with big v small combine,one would think it comes down to the operator of the machine. Would be interested to know if the bigger machines run east/west drums,not axial flow. You will always lose more grain if the combine is not kept full at all times. For instance if you slow down to pick up rice on the ground your wind speed will be higher throwing more grain out the back. What is the price of a harvest contractor these days,it was capped at 600 baht/rai a couple of years a go. Anyway seems a shame to do all the hard work to grow the crop to receive a heavy discount from not following thru till the finished product. Farmers back home were always taught to make the most of a good year to make up for the bad ones. Glad to see you got enough to keep the bellies from aching plus extra,it looked like you guys got a lot of late rain down that way.

The sugar mill must of opened a couple of days a go. One of our neighbours has started cutting. The cane cutters have got a wrestle on this year with the height of the cane. Looks like a 15 or 16 ton crop,it is 1st year sugar. Haven't seen or heard any prices yet.

Make up what,this movement is larger than in the UK.

It's a shame if the palace takes this function off the table for next year.

Where the jury is out for me on compost fertilizers is the price. They possibly suit smaller area's like raised beds if you really want to go down the organic route. According to the website they say they have grown corn well at 1 kilo/m2(compost). 1600 kilo's/rai,53 x 30 kilo bags at 300 per bag = 16,000 baht/rai. That is expensive food compared to using chemical fertilizer on the same area.

Which area of Thailand. Nematodes could be a cause.

My wife got notification from the app on the 26th that the subsidy had been deposited in her account. No sign yet of the 2nd payment for the price adjustment. The good price which isn't that great is still below par. Input costs rose significantly this year.

The WHO says 1 in 8 people have some sort of mental illness. Equality is not far away.

Hi KS You must of read my mind about a dryer. I agree trying to sun dry 15 ton is beyond the average farmer here. I guess that is why nobody uses harvesters around here,cut and bundle for 10 days then through the thresher and into the storage shed. It is however labour intensive,a neighbour did theirs yesterday and must of been a dozen people involved. A dryer would be useful and not to hard to knock up. Although batch dryers would take a bit of suck and see to get right. To much heat to quick will see the seed sweats up and sucks the moisture back in. I'm doing a little trial here at the moment,bought the Fil a couple of drums to do his charcoal so checking drum temps and duration time as that may be a way to provide the heat for a home made dryer. Our carport can easily be modified to work as a 5-6 ton batch dryer for a few days a year. I know my wife would be happy as i use the undercover area in our house yard now with a bit of rain around.

I'm glad this wasn't my wife or children. The girl got a year is that to long. https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/girl-15-admits-attacking-mum-pushing-toddlers-in-pram-c-8690623

As i brought it up,i should cop the flack. When discrimination and criminals are mentioned in the same sentence that doesn't bode well with me. For how long and at what cost will that tune be played.

Criminals come in all races,i could argue all night on this but we would still never find any common ground. On the street or locked up. I know what i prefer but all is well as i moved off that desert island.

Weird reply.

This is where we disagree,i come from the same country as you. I would have been happy to see half of that money spent on building prisons.

Latest rice prices. Last years crop has come back in price.

I think we are all activists. I have bygone values because that was the best western world i knew and think Thailand is closer to them than the west. Others on here are at the cutting edge fighting for tomorrows rights to be the most advanced people in the world. Each to their own which in most cases ends in agreeing to disagree. I'm fine with Qatar holding the world cup,it's a sporting event.

What do you want to grow. Wet season or dry season. Does the land have access to use larger machinery as a 1st step.

Are expats able to access these bonds with a Thai bank account or is it strictly for Thai's.

In our area Khon Kaen there is a 300 baht/rai incentive given to rice farmers who don't burn the stubble. That nearly covers the price to plough it back in. The downside as far as i'm aware is this has only been offered to farmers with chanote land,not Sor Por Kor land holders which is probably most of the land used for rice around here.

I'm all ears if immigration will accept an internet bank statement. No cash equals no bank branches.

Against. It is just another people shuffle issue tearing society apart. Take the workers out of a branch where they communicate with locals and lock them up in a call centre. City populations grow and rural area's die.

All is well. Taxi driver from airport knew where the embassy is.(i always catch o cab from departures,270 baht plus i think 75 in tolls) Got to the embassy an hour before appointment and was served within 5 minutes by a pleasant lady who didn't question the photo's and gave my passport back. So was back at airport by original appointment time and able to get an earlier flight home. A good day to get out of the way. They don't do the 64 page passports anymore but she did say if i run out of pages(32 page passport) with more than 2 years left on passport they will issue a new one with same details at a discounted price. Also there is a shuttle service at the road enterance to take you in to the building.