My Thai-Farmer neighbor

[RedBullHorn]

Depends on the scale and demand and the economic of an item and vicinity... most farmers HERE bought it at discounted price of ฿10/kg... cow manure grounded at ฿17/kg (in-demand)...

Exactly my point. It is very expensive as you need 5-10 times more manure than 46-0-0 which costs just 13B/kg.

Nope... They think as equalling to sack per sack not as 5-10 time... they think it... not me~ I don't do plantation... I am a Pla Duk person...

[loong]

Depends on the scale and demand and the economic of an item and vicinity... most farmers HERE bought it at discounted price of ฿10/kg... cow manure grounded at ฿17/kg (in-demand)...

"cow manure grounded at ฿17/kg"

What does "grounded" mean?

I find it hard to imagine that anyone would pay ฿17/kg for cow manure

Normal price here is ฿20 for a sack

I try to express the meaning of grounded as ground beef ... meaning that it is like ground beef... farmers collect cow dung by the pie and have tractor wheels going over it by mean of meshing and then bag it. Farmers here buy my empty feed sack at ฿3 and sell the load collected at ฿17/sack load. Your area may be selling at ฿20/sack but here they are selling the fine stuff at ฿17/sack.

I see, the ฿17/kg was a typo then

[umbanda]

This week I posted a topic asking about alternative crop ideas to help my in laws. They owns a 10 Rai property, growing rice, and living in poverty. After I got some info from them, I found out that they are not making any money, they even are losing money owning a property that now value over 2 mill bath to make a gross with luck of 30,000 THB/YEAR..

This year, more than before, I saw many small farmers taking land from rice to start new crops, veggies and fruits...but it is very difficult to talk about business with people without any idea about cost and profit. By the way....looks like is not restricted to small farmers....I never saw so many business opening and closing in just few months like here in Thailand, even some after large investments.

[RedBullHorn]

Depends on the scale and demand and the economic of an item and vicinity... most farmers HERE bought it at discounted price of ฿10/kg... cow manure grounded at ฿17/kg (in-demand)...

"cow manure grounded at ฿17/kg"

What does "grounded" mean?

I find it hard to imagine that anyone would pay ฿17/kg for cow manure

Normal price here is ฿20 for a sack

I try to express the meaning of grounded as ground beef ... meaning that it is like ground beef... farmers collect cow dung by the pie and have tractor wheels going over it by mean of meshing and then bag it. Farmers here buy my empty feed sack at ฿3 and sell the load collected at ฿17/sack load. Your area may be selling at ฿20/sack but here they are selling the fine stuff at ฿17/sack.

I see, the ฿17/kg was a typo then

Sorry it is a typo, just realise it... ฿17/sack ... (฿3+฿14)

Edited January 30, 2015 by RedBullHorn