farmerjo

I've had 4 cobra's at the house this year. Thanks for letting us know Chumphae is the closest hospital with av. They do get the hairs on the back of the neck to stand up. I have a dog which has lost one eye from a cobra and a family of mynar birds who are good for alerting the presence of a snake. The tool i use to remove them is a 10 foot long piece of bamboo with a fishing harpoon end on it with 4 spikes.

IMHO it's sour grapes from Mercedes. The race could of been red flagged and restarted anyway. They should be celebrating the constructors.

I think a lot comes down to what screens the thresher has installed. I just had the mother in law out watching me clean rice,she said i waste to much when in fact some grains are smaller and called screenings even though they look like rice. Come time to mill your just giving them to the miller for free and losing sack weight. A question for Owl,can i ask the dimensions of your rice shed and how many bags it holds. I don't have one and just store in my ground level shed which will be prone to rat carnage later on.

If you can plant a legume crop with a decent taproot,i would as it will help. My brother said last week in Aus urea gone from $550 to $1500 a ton. I did read somewhere the government were trying to cap diesel and fertilizer prices here but wont hold my breath. Years a go we used to use ammonium sulphate i think as a cheap form of urea,especially on crops like canola. Whether that's available here i don't know.

Hi IA Nice to see an operator take their time and do a good job. What's the cause of your lodging? The Fil reakons farmers around here have been going away from using straight nitrogen for the 2nd dose to minimize the lodging but from what i see it's consistant with late season wet fields.

I'm doing some rice cleaning at the moment. The bigger sugar bags max out at 40kg for us.

We live right on the Phuphaman national park and 20 km's from Pu kradeng national park as the crow fly's so while it;s Khon Kaen it's not really. Last night the temp was a bit higher so hopefully that cold snap has passed.

I've been in long johns for 4 nights now. 12 degrees at 6 this morning west of Khon Kaen. Hate the cold.

Seed cleaner turned up today so now the work begins. With a 2.5mm top screen and 1.8mm middle screen it looks like it will bring the screenings down to under 3%. I purchased an extra 5 screens of assorted sizes for different grains later on.

A good example of a quality rice seed(hom mali) Given enough space to flourish,this one had 28 tillers.

Good news if it works out,if we are to be competitive someone needs to replace Walker down back. Off topic - with not much sport on last week i started watching the tv series the crown. Not sure what others think but the more i watch it the more i see Nathan Buckley playing prince Phillip.????

That is not the solution to the problem even though many would like it to be.

I don't know of anyone who has died. A village 3 down from me currently has a security of health workers and the law at all entrance and exit points. Inside the village it seems business as usual with large numbers working together cutting rice. Elections this sunday so the masses will be out everywhere.

I changed earlier this month from marriage to retirement. Saved me about 140 print outs, two ink cartridges,a trip to the amphur and another trip back to KK to pick up passport. The IO was also happy with the decision.

Not sure about hydroponics KS. If your rice seed has been graded and a germination rate of 99%,99 out of the 100 will sprout. That result may change by planting time if not stored correctly but that's the same for any seed. Finished rice harvest yesterday,4 ton still out being sun dried then will start the cleaning and bagging process then hurry up and wait to see what the prices do. All the neighbours extremely happy with their results this year. Won't be long and most of the rice will be finished around here and everyone will move onto the sugar. Time to clean the harvester.

Well we got our man. Watched the draft on fox footy last night. Not the best tv viewing going around but good to see the kids stepping up to the big time after not much footy over last two years.

Not to self - stay out of gold shops????

That sounds about right KS. Hom mali's potential around here according to the Ag research centre is 360 kg/rai. So far we are going about 260 kg/rai on a very weed infestered field. Our costs for the hom mali work out at 1200 baht/rai with half of that charging myself 600 baht/rai for using the harvester. So the profit could be anywhere between sell now 750 baht/rai or get government subsidy and make 2700 baht/rai which is still not a lot and income from a 2nd crop of sesame,corn or sunn hemp needed to top up. The most pleasing thing about growing rice this year besides hearing the seeds rattling into the harvester box has been no lodging at all. On the keeping seed,it really needs to be dried to 10%,cleaned and germination tested. Not worth the hassel for me,easier to get seed from the Ag station which is proven to use low seeding rates.

Hi KS I apologize as pushed on harvesting yesterday and today went for a moisture check but forgot to ask about the broken rice price even though i discussed with my wife on the way there. Will ask in a couple of days time. Found out today 3 days of sun drying is bringing the moisture down to 17-18% so will now be parked up for another 2-3 days waiting for drying space. My moisture meter works fine on corn and sunn hemp but is not reading the rice well so a pia 70 km round trip for getting tests done.

We missed it for the 1st time and i probably won't live it down. It's to get rid of the bad spirits for the year so anything that goes wrong from now on will be my fault.????

For the life of me yesterday i spent quite a bit of time trying to find what the broken rice price is at the animal feed mills but came up empty handed. And whether a big rice year would decrease feed prices. I'm parked up tomorrow with rice harvest,run out of space for drying. So will do a run to the millers to see how our sun drying seed fairs moisture wise. 5 ton of cowneo bagged and stored,5 ton of hom mali on the blue mesh drying. Hom mali is going well,tbh i thought 5 ton would see it out but having only harvested 20 rai of the 68 rai expectation is looking brighter. Anything that matured late looks to have some rice sheath rot so will keep an eye on that.

So let me get this straight. Paine is stepping down because of an incident before he was made captain. And as Stokes lines up to bowl i'm thinking well he got a 2nd chance. I think Carey deserves the nod first Will only just. I would also back Marsh into open with Warner. Norf out of dept,well done.

I wonder what the army fuel price is.

For much of the population it's comfort to know that water runs downhill.

That gave a chuckle,we've been sun drying the cowneo rice and it has been left in the hands of mama and papa as their wisdom should show through and not to upset the apple cart. Nobody knows what the moisture was to start with and nobody knows what it is bagged at. I got a funny look when i was off to the millers today to get a proper sample done.