Not surprisingly, farmers in southern Thailand are spending much of their bonanza.
American farmers spend an estimated $50 million a year on chemicals to fight the corn borer.
The farmer can spend more time farming and less on marketing.
The local farmers spend all their time talking about a cow that died six months ago.
As a result, farmers here must spend more to grow crops like corn than they can make selling them.
This is just so the farmers will do their dirty work for them, rather than spend money on something more effective.
At the same time, farmers spent a total of $24.5 billion on feed that year.
Some farmers will spend a couple of hours socializing before completing their business in a few minutes.
This will enable the farmers to spend more time on their core agricultural activities.
At harvest time, farmers spend most of the day picking cherries by hand.