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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 21:55:41 GMT 7
While I suspect this is a troll post just for fun post, the money is in making the sauerkraut, not in raising cabbages. The beer company makes a lot more than the hops grower and the potato chip company makes a lot more than the potato farmer. There's simply a lot more value added into the finished product for the manufacturer who isn't limited by how many rai he has. He also isn't subject to insects and disease and weather. I'll see your make-believe number of rai and raise you a troll....
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Post by bbaker on Apr 13, 2015 23:00:32 GMT 7
I was serious though. I make my own beer in a 5 gallon crock. It costs about 30 baht per liter to make it which is part of what makes microbreweries proliferate and be profitable. Another part is that one can find a favorite recipe. It's also very easy. It beats the heck out of growing barley, but even then malting barley would be more profitable that growing it. My beer has just four main ingredients - malted barley, hops, yeast and water.
Another way to make more money than the farmer would be to put together ingredient packages and instructions for making 5 gallons of beer and sell them ready to use. The farmers couldn't come close to that markup.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 23:20:13 GMT 7
Cabbages prefer cool weather so how a cabbage farm in Thailand will be a success is questionable. Cabbages are everywhere in Thailand
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 23:27:06 GMT 7
Cabbages certainly are cheap to buy and pack a punch if you eat too much in one sitting
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Post by smokie36 on Apr 14, 2015 1:35:00 GMT 7
I think this idea is destined for disaster.
Thailand must be riddled with caterpillars which will destroy your crop and leave you penniless.
Just look at the number of butterflies around!
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Post by smokie36 on Apr 14, 2015 1:36:44 GMT 7
I was serious though. I make my own beer in a 5 gallon crock. It costs about 30 baht per liter to make it which is part of what makes microbreweries proliferate and be profitable. Another part is that one can find a favorite recipe. It's also very easy. It beats the heck out of growing barley, but even then malting barley would be more profitable that growing it. My beer has just four main ingredients - malted barley, hops, yeast and water. Another way to make more money than the farmer would be to put together ingredient packages and instructions for making 5 gallons of beer and sell them ready to use. The farmers couldn't come close to that markup. Where do cabbages fit into this equation?....you've lost me here.
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Post by bbaker on Apr 14, 2015 2:47:38 GMT 7
I was serious though. I make my own beer in a 5 gallon crock. It costs about 30 baht per liter to make it which is part of what makes microbreweries proliferate and be profitable. Another part is that one can find a favorite recipe. It's also very easy. It beats the heck out of growing barley, but even then malting barley would be more profitable that growing it. My beer has just four main ingredients - malted barley, hops, yeast and water. Another way to make more money than the farmer would be to put together ingredient packages and instructions for making 5 gallons of beer and sell them ready to use. The farmers couldn't come close to that markup. Where do cabbages fit into this equation?....you've lost me here. Sorry it went over your head. I'll dumb it down. "Starting a Cabbage Farm. Can I Do it? Will It Make Good Coin." No, unless it meets the criteria I've been posting. That, having been raised as a farmer, I learned that you either have to have a lot of land or a way to add value and market it yourself instead of just selling the fresh product through normal channels. Then I was giving examples. Do you think you can remember that by the time you get to a piece of paper and a pencil?
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Post by smokie36 on Apr 14, 2015 2:52:00 GMT 7
Where do cabbages fit into this equation?....you've lost me here. Sorry it went over your head. I'll dumb it down. "Starting a Cabbage Farm. Can I Do it? Will It Make Good Coin." No, unless it meets the criteria I've been posting. That, having been raised as a farmer, I learned that you either have to have a lot of land or a way to add value and market it yourself instead of just selling the fresh product through normal channels. Then I was giving examples. Do you think you can remember that by the time you get to a piece of paper and a pencil? Agree with this. Friend of mine's father was a fisherman all his life....all he did was land and sell fish locally all his life. Until my friend hit 19....then he suggested they start a small factory filleting their fish...breadcrumbing it and freezing then selling it to supermarkets that way. He is now living in the Caribbean and enjoying his bottle of rum every day. Life is what you make of it....good luck!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 10:32:13 GMT 7
Sorry it went over your head. I'll dumb it down. "Starting a Cabbage Farm. Can I Do it? Will It Make Good Coin." No, unless it meets the criteria I've been posting. That, having been raised as a farmer, I learned that you either have to have a lot of land or a way to add value and market it yourself instead of just selling the fresh product through normal channels. Then I was giving examples. Do you think you can remember that by the time you get to a piece of paper and a pencil? Agree with this. Friend of mine's father was a fisherman all his life....all he did was land and sell fish locally all his life. Until my friend hit 19....then he suggested they start a small factory filleting their fish...breadcrumbing it and freezing then selling it to supermarkets that way. He is now living in the Caribbean and enjoying his bottle of rum every day. Life is what you make of it....good luck! Good idea. Could the OP have a sauerkraut factory? Can you have Chilli Sauerkraut and Stinky Fish Sauerkraut?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 10:34:28 GMT 7
What about cucumbers and making gerkins? You can supply MacDonalds.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 10:46:15 GMT 7
Whether you pick them off your burger and throw them away or not, there is money to be made in gerkins. See the success story below. The sole supplier of McDonald's pickles in Australia has re-emerged as the king of gherkins, after a turbulent decade which saw his original company placed into liquidation and his crops wiped out by drought. "We're on the positive side of the ledger and we're digging our way back out and it's good. We see a bright future," gherkin grower Tony Parle told Landline. The story behind the loved and loathed burger condiment is a tale of extreme highs and lows. Twenty-four years ago, the Parles were struggling rice and wheat growers near Griffith in New South Wales, and were considering getting out of farming altogether. Instead Tony Parle took a punt on pickled cucumbers, despite some logistical challenges at harvest. "They're hard to grow cause they're so quick and ruthless," he said. www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-16/gherkin-king/3893534
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Post by smokie36 on Apr 14, 2015 11:48:39 GMT 7
I don't mind a gerkhin....beats a sloppy tomato any day!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 14:29:44 GMT 7
I don't like gherkins.They remind me of other things.
I do like the symmetry of a cabbage.
This sauerkraut market to shelf idea a wise poster mentioned has me thinking.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 19:08:03 GMT 7
Fruit orchards for export...
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Post by bbaker on Apr 15, 2015 9:05:13 GMT 7
There is a heck of a lot more money in a truck farm or a fruit or nut orchard than there will ever be in grains including rice and corn. Grains aren't chosen but rather usually dictated by location, soil type, climate and moisture.
"Truck farm" may be an American term, and if it is it means a farm which grows produce for market. That type of farm often is smaller and may have a variety of things to spread the risk and to spread timing of planting and harvest. Truck farms usually grow a variety of fruits and vegetables.
Many truck farmers have a fruit stand where they sell not only fresh fruit but they often add value by making things like jams and jellies and pickles and sauerkraut.
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