A little farm-snack for in between watching all your beautifull pictures!

Also in Thailand, DAL is not allow to re-dip.... Will he ever learn.

Yes Goompa , I can see you back there !

'And the famous Rice River Falls.

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Regards.

Wow! I can see them, TEL. Amazing

Yes Goompa , I can see you back there !

---"The suspicious buffalo"...

An example of farm ingenuity.

^ Yes, assuming rice hay ? Never seen that in the south (Songhkla areas)

What are they using it for?

It all goes up in smoke !

It's used as buffalo fuel up North. As per the previous photos.....only it goes in the other end.

Regards.

An example of farm ingenuity.

This is WOW to me Dal.

Test posting picture (Thank you Dancealot.)

Spring Bitter Cucumber.

My wife loves those...........................but not for eating.

Lunch break on the farm.

Dancealot - thanks for the invitation to join in your forum here. My first (but hopefully not last) contribution is reflective of one type of farming that is quite prevalent in Chiang Rai. I'll let you deduce what type of farming that is.

I'll play Shaggy's secretary for a minute here. Welcome Fiddlesticks . We have been expecting you.

I have been to the Dole plantation in Oahu and this scene looks awfully similar.

Thanks Dal

Wow Fiddlesticks,a wonderful first post and may I also offer you a warm welcome.

Also a big thank you also to the rest of you guys for today's amazing photos.

Shaggy

Farmers selling their harvest their rubber harvest.

Twice a month buyers come to our town to purchase the rubber harvest from the farmers.

Weighing and loading the rubber.

Farmer waiting eagerly to find out how much their crop has tallied.

The ladies keeping record of all the names of the farmers and weight of their rubber.

At the weigh scales

Test posting picture (Thank you Dancealot.)

Spring Bitter Cucumber.

My wife loves those...........................but not for eating.

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Fakkgaw is rich in Lycopene, a group of P-carotene carotenoids. Found in certain fruit and vegetables,

it has anti-oxidation capabilities. It is found in the red membrane that contains the seeds of Fakkgaw. More...https://www.facebook.com/gacfakkgawkorat/posts/580765698609794

By any chance Ron, do You have 2 Dogs named Thaksin and Abhisit. ?.

Dancealot - thanks for the invitation to join in your forum here. My first (but hopefully not last) contribution is reflective of one type of farming that is quite prevalent in Chiang Rai. I'll let you deduce what type of farming that is.

I'll play Shaggy's secretary for a minute here. Welcome Fiddlesticks . We have been expecting you.

I have been to the Dole plantation in Oahu and this scene looks awfully similar.

Thanks Dal

Wow Fiddlesticks,a wonderful first post and may I also offer you a warm welcome.

Also a big thank you also to the rest of you guys for today's amazing photos.

Shaggy

Thanks Shaggy, Looks like a very fun and friendly group on this forum. Really enjoying the posts as well!

By any chance Ron, do You have 2 Dogs named Thaksin and Abhisit. ?.

Almost right, It's Abhisit and Suthep

When we deleted Abhisits crown jewels it was suggested his name should be changed to Yingluck.

Cheers

Stark contrast here with machine harvesting versus the old way. A Kubota tracked combine did the back 8 rai in about 90 minutes, with offload to a waiting truck a few times. (You can see the furrows that the combine left in the back plot.) The foreground 10 rai or so went like this with 8 people working:

DAY 1: 8 hours of cutting.

DAY 2: 8 hours cutting in the rain.

DAY 3: Turn over the stalks to dry.

DAY 4: Start hauling to the beating area.

DAY 5: Beat and Bag.

Had to take this photo in the heat of the day as once the light gets good, those bags will be hauled away.

Hi Shaggy.

One from me, working up the paddy.

Plenty of irrigation here and as soon as one crop is harvested they are preparing for the next.

Don't know how long the soil can stand that sort of thing.

They must be having to use increasing quantities of fertilizer.

Testing testing...

Thanks Dal, told him that i want to post big like the Colonel.

The northern Hill Tribe Force, armed with sickles and bags of stirred-fried bugs for lunch.

This pickup was loaded with 33 hillbillies + 1 driver. ( i counted them) 8 inside the cab and 26 pack the back like sardines in a can.

Guarantee cutting job done within the day. Maximum coverage 40 rai/day for standing crop only. (multiple locations)

Fallen crop charge more expensive.

They are really fast !

Here are shots of the final beating and bagging with some tools of the trade: Beating tongs held together with bicycle chain, wooden rice shovel, wooden cardinal measure bucket, and a fan for blowing away the chaff. They were all pretty tired and I don't blame them. The bags weigh 30 kilograms and some of these farmers only push the scales to 45!

When Straws are abundant this season...

KFC !

Northern...New harvest, new sticky rice... Khao Lum + Hor Neung (Wrap Steam)

Testing testing...

Thanks Dal, told him that i want to post big like the Colonel.

(Can I? ) : Well done, my keen sardine.

MJP, I love your style and I am attracted to it.

A couple of beauties standing on show by the Yamaha tractor dealers.

These Yanmar tractors seem to be preferred more now than Kubotas in our area.

Yanmar makes all of the John Deere tractors up to 50hp for the US market. They can't sell the Yanmar name by agreement with John Deere. All new Yanmars are John Deere green and yellow, but if you open the hood the engine says Yanmar. All of the Yanmars are imported used, usually from Japan as the US doesn't charge import taxes. I had one and it was wonderful. Pic attached, aftermarket loader.

While Kubota is very popular, many think that Yanmar (John Deere) has a lower center of gravity and is more maneuverable. Of course few buy those narrow agricultural tires as shown in the pictures above, preferring the wider industrial tires such as would be seen on a backhoe. I don't know how those would work in rice fields but on drier ground they do less compacting.

I'm really enjoying all of the pictures, but I'm out of "likes."