Farm Photos

[slapout]

you can pick electrial voltage off of a hi voltage line iif you have one close to where you need a electric fence.; a little thought, thinking of a bare conducxtor properly p-laced beneath power source worls good

[shaggy1969]

The ladies hard at work out in the rice field.

[shaggy1969]

Ma and Uncle loading up the harvested rubber.

[Ron19]

Sister In-law has taken delivery of another 18 giving her a total of 34 now. Also is building another pen so looks like there is more to come.

[Dancealot]

Massive rainfall. I'm taking shelter in a small cabin..

[tormok]

[pigeonjake]

Sister In-law has taken delivery of another 18 giving her a total of 34 now. Also is building another pen so looks like there is more to come.

i hope she has a buyer lined up ron,

that is a lot of pigs that are all the same age, and will be ready for market at the same time,

but good luck to her,

[gomangosteen]

A little different 'farm', there are eight active open cast sapphire mining operations near us, based around the Ploy Waen area once one of the world's biggest sources of sapphires an rubies. Planted in fruit trees now, farmers lease blocks of land to the miners for either a set fee or a percentage, it is excavated, sifted, and reinstated with new fruit tree plantings, and usually a nice new house and cars as well.

[gomangosteen]

Another from Ploy Waen (Chanthaburi province)

[shaggy1969]

Great photos there gomangosteen,that's a beastly looking trommel,would love to see and hear that one in action!

Also a big hello to tormok,you have supported us here on Farm Photos for some time now by giving us 'likes'.

It is nice to be able to return the favor by giving you my own 'likes',many thanks for your photo!

Well maintained young sugarcane,complimented by some fluffy clouds and blue sky.

[Ron19]

My red fleshed dragonfruit growing from cuttings supplied by another TV member in Chiang Rai and now fruitng for the 1st time.

[tormok]

Waiting for the sun to clear the morning dew.

[Ron19]

Big Kubota

[Ron19]

Local corn crop doing well. This image doesn't show the full area but there is between 40 to 50 rai with the 10 rai closest

that has been recently cleared of mangoes, bananas and jungle regrowth which had been like that since I 1st came here

24 years ago. That might be the reason for the germination not being as good for all intents and purposes it is new ground.

[Ron19]

Not mine but I couldn't help myself.

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[slapout]

Not mine but I couldn't help myself.

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if a task does not make lots of noise, polute, involve visiting with someone else, allows setting and shadow time, aqnd allowamce for a nip of whiskey, 1 hour nap break position refused

[Dancealot]

My photo shelter

[Ron19]

[farmerjo]

A little different 'farm', there are eight active open cast sapphire mining operations near us, based around the Ploy Waen area once one of the world's biggest sources of sapphires an rubies. Planted in fruit trees now, farmers lease blocks of land to the miners for either a set fee or a percentage, it is excavated, sifted, and reinstated with new fruit tree plantings, and usually a nice new house and cars as well.

A similar thing happened in loei with a number of small iron ore privateers until the government came in and shut them all down

[Ron19]

[Ron19]

This looks to me to be out of season for this sort of thing but maybe they are making sure that it gets a good start with the good

rains we've had this week so as to be ready for harvest in13/14 months time. Perhaps it's to be used for more planting again later

on this year.

[Dancealot]

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[Ron19]

When I 1st saw these in the distance yesterday I thought they were leveling the paddy's prior to seeding rice.

On closer inspection they appear to be actually spreading the seed . Hadn't seen one working before.

[slapout]

farm help manpower is getting hard to find at a afforable price. some demand 400 baht/day or wont work. they become the thieves in the night as farmer cant afford them. broadcasting will become the norm and the layabouts will move to city to blend in with the other prima donnas who feel they are worth their weight in gold and people are priviliged to just being able to look at them lay in the cot all day.

[Dancealot]

farm help manpower is getting hard to find at a afforable price. some demand 400 baht/day or wont work. they become the thieves in the night as farmer cant afford them. broadcasting will become the norm and the layabouts will move to city to blend in with the other prima donnas who feel they are worth their weight in gold and people are priviliged to just being able to look at them lay in the cot all day.

Interesting, I thought of the vehicles Ron showed but you thought of the men, right?

For the boys:

In that case it's a funny system and sadly they are discouraged by it. It's not their fault, but they are conditioned to think that way. That won't change. Somehow they have to make the best of things in an un-equal system.

The real norm is that regular people/farmers work years/decades for the gold they wear or the house they built. In a system where the big gap between rich and relatively poor are maintained leads to compare their lives with richness from others. Those are two things you can't and shoudn't compare but society presses them with the confrontation to the things who seem/will be unreachable for all their lives. If fhe Gucci-bags, the bleached faces, the brands, the horrific-I-phone-contracts which unnessacarily leads many people into deep debt if this confrontation doesn't discourage them then themere presence of farangs, any farangs surely doensn't make handling life any easier.

I emphatise with them but they beinig a farm-boy despite this hopelesness I can still bring up the common sense and decency to choose to steal from a farang rather one of your own fellow country-men.

With this in mind, If I worked for B300/day with out any perspective in career or chance to safe money at all I wouldn't be 100% loyal to the people who contracted me whenever they see fit. It's unrealistic for a contractor to expect this level of commitment from them in the first place. There are simply not enough chances/oppertunities around for people like them.

It's like that.

[Dancealot]

Then on the other side if you're a city boy like me. Later in age farming becomes more and more appealing in many ways.

Here's my version of the esarn-cowboy, inspired by Goompa! Note the baby-tobacco leaves were all planted by hand after making one relatively big financial investment. It's a long way from here to the tobacco auction house. Apart from fertiliser and gasoline. No more money is needed to produce thedried tobacco leaf from now on. Only sweat and labour.

Farm father who passed away always worked a little bit harder so he didn't need to hire someone(outside of the direct family) which would have a negative effect on the profit.

I'm glad I was there to see him work for 2 seasons. I'm glad I got to know him for what he was.

@Ron or anyone. I'd like a close up of the modified iron-buffalo with sunbrella. Never saw it either!

Baby tobacco with morning dew.

Early in the nurturing process at least 1 family member usually the man will spend ever night, right on his land to guard over the baby's. It's not because they don't trust their fellow villagers but after the investment has been made he is the insurance everything will be ok.

I like the farmer insures himself this way instead of involving an insurance company. Dad couldn't sleep at home when he worried about the crops, sometimes he went out to the fields at irregular times just because he worried. At first I didn't understand.

[edit] editing time over T.B.C.

[Dancealot]

Basic tobacco/garlic setup with a just few extra's to make things more barable for spending the night.

From left to right:

Sprinkler Shower Shallow well Washing Tv-antenna^^ Etan-carport Scrap/bamboolodging Wife Etan Tree for sunblock Pesticides 3 Chicken baskets.

Precious tobacco, tobacco, tobacco. ....more tobacco

[slapout]

farm size dictates if manpower or machine power will keep you going. Thailand farm size for the majority of farm famlies is where the real world was in the 1930's , the critical ingreadent lacking here is transport via rail or truck. most is done by the latter as the rail system is a shambles and lacking throughout the country. proper storage facilities owned and operated anasw well as fair market value declared by groups of farmers (CO OPs) but those 3 items leave the thai farmer at mercy of groups like CP. and other monopolies

a family with enough children can farm with draft animals about 120 -+ acres 1 cash crop and garden ,milk cow, hogs , chickens poaching wild game etc and exist and not go hungry too ofton. but the farners have to co operate in harvesting, threshing etc where machinery cost (Combine ,Threshing machine are required) The offspring of said farmer wont have a farm big enough for their family plus ma and pa so they hire on a on a payroll somewhere. Thailand is at this point, mabe even past it as there are too many farme raised people, not enough land to furnish a honest living , there is not enough industry to hire out of of work thai as many are used to doing as they want, when they want, on the farm with no offical ''boss''

basically i am saying expect more theft, skams, corruption as the land volume is not here to support farmers and the education system has not prepared any training for those people to compete in the developed countries nor have a large enough industrial base to employee the uneducated/utrained. I hope my comments are taken as i intended, i am not anti thai, have many good friends who have been denied the chance that i was given by a dirt poor community 70+ years ago and i may not be a multi millionaire but i live confortable and everything i posess was paid for with honest earned money, have no monetary debts owed and have had a good enjoyable run of a lifestyle i enjoyed and it supported my families I just hope my support ot the present PM intentions are correct as i will admit to thinking Thaksin had enough money he did not need to steal the country blind. Another mistake in judgement of people on my part

[Ron19]

D A L, this is the best I can do at short notice. I will attempt to get better shots later on after I catch up after not having the internet for four days.

They are run by a single cylinder petrol motor driving surprisingly fragile skinny wheels which dont seem to have a problem with the knee deep mud.

There is no steering wheel as such, the steering is controlled by levers in much the same way a tracked bulldozer would be.

Not the clearest of images but if you look closely you should notice three rows showing the seed drop.One at the top one middle and one at the bottom.

The seeds are the lighter colour in obvious rows.

[Ron19]