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Originally Posted by harveyc
You seem to be missing the point in a significant way. If you don't have something that you can compare results to, you have no basis to judge the price of another product.
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Harvey,
I have spent the last 10 years studying the plant science and ag co-op literature in crop nutrition. I have also spent the last 3 years studying the specifications of 100's (maybe a few 1000) nutrient products and the components that manufacturers use to produce them. Consequently, when I read the chemical analysis of a nutrient product, I recognize the base constituents and their costs that have been used to make them just as you would recognize your son as he stands in front of you.
You are thinking in what I would term "retail mode". Consider the various refining industries, for example petroleum. They do not have product names in the retail sense for the base distillates they produce, nor do they post them on the internet. However, if you pick up a chemical trade magazine you'll find (for example) people debating the merits and demerits of ethylene packages from various refineries.