Thread: Palm Trees

The way off the world, Palm oil, Cassava and rubber are all set by oil prices. High oil prices mean a demand for bio Diesel, cassava ethanol and rubber [ plastics made from oil.]
Tomorrow there may be war and the price will jump, or they may find a new fuel source, or find massive reserves of oil under London or New York.
Today I'm drinking beer, eating good food, the kids are happy, even though the rubber prices are low. Tomorrow I may be on Lao Kow and eating sticky rice and bugs or building a swimming pool.
Live in the moment tomorrow will bring what it brings. Jim

Palm plantation is now 4 years old. After all expenses, 5000 Baht profit made when selling palm this month. 1st time seeing a positive figure !

Originally Posted by jamescollister

Live in the moment tomorrow will bring what it brings.

The day I start thinking like a Thai is time to call it a day.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by jamescollister

Live in the moment tomorrow will bring what it brings.

The day I start thinking like a Thai is time to call it a day.

I'm still here, got out of bed when I felt it was getting hot, kids went to school, I got on my Chinese chopper for a ride, ate food,
Have no rent or mortgage, electricity and car payments only, don't make a penny from the west and live drink and sleep OK.

Kids future looks better here than some inner city school; in OZ. I am a 24/7 dad and I have no locks on doors and guess what I don't have nightmares. That alone makes turning Thai, enough. jim

Well said Jim, agree 100%.

Originally Posted by jamescollister

I'm still here, got out of bed when I felt it was getting hot, kids went to school, I got on my Chinese chopper for a ride, ate food, Have no rent or mortgage, electricity and car payments only, don't make a penny from the west and live drink and sleep OK. Kids future looks better here than some inner city school; in OZ. I am a 24/7 dad and I have no locks on doors and guess what I don't have nightmares. That alone makes turning Thai, enough.

I'm of the same but I still don't think like a Thai and I'm sure deep down inside you don't. It's not in our nature. You can act like a Thai but think like one? Never.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by jamescollister

I'm still here, got out of bed when I felt it was getting hot, kids went to school, I got on my Chinese chopper for a ride, ate food, Have no rent or mortgage, electricity and car payments only, don't make a penny from the west and live drink and sleep OK. Kids future looks better here than some inner city school; in OZ. I am a 24/7 dad and I have no locks on doors and guess what I don't have nightmares. That alone makes turning Thai, enough.

I'm of the same but I still don't think like a Thai and I'm sure deep down inside you don't. It's not in our nature. You can act like a Thai but think like one? Never.

Will never be a Thai, Born into a unfiorm and will die as my daddy told me, just find here I can die at my on pace,
May be alcohol or smoking, a bullet in the head in the jungle or a motorbike accident, but I will die a free man.
Jim

what is current price of palm per kilo ?
Girlfriend has been waiting nearly 6 years now and hoping that we will start seeing "harvest" from palm trees this year. Heard that the price is not so good as the Chinese are planting a lot themselves now. ??

Originally Posted by POThailand

what is current price of palm per kilo ?

Price and what the farmer gets are 2 different things after deductions.

Palm oil for March delivery jumped 1.6 per cent to 2,286 ringgit ($654) a metric ton on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives, the highest closing price for a most-active contract since Nov. 4. The benchmark price for the edible oil rose for an eighth day, the longest rally since 2010. Rubber climbed for a third day on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange and traded near a four-month high.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...w/45684865.cms

Is this index something that should be followed to see if the expected price per kilo would go up or down for the farmer ??

Palm oil - Monthly Price - Commodity Prices - Price Charts, Data, and News - IndexMundi

So what do palm farmers actually receive for their palm nuts when they sell them locally??

Originally Posted by mykthemin

So what do palm farmers actually receive for their palm nuts when they sell them locally??

2 Baht a kilo round here I'm told.