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NW Illinois | Reax Sulfur is 9-0-0-18S and weighs roughly 10.7# per gallon according to the MSDS
Thiosulfate is 12-0-0-26S and weighs roughly 11.04#
On a per gallon basis your getting:
Reax .95-0-0-1.89S at a cost of ? (I don't know what it costs)
ATS 1.33-0-0-2.88S, if it costs $360 a ton, that equates to $2.00 a gallon.
Couple things to point out.
1. Loveland is owned by Nutrien.
2. Including Nutrien, Retailers don't own ATS manufacturing, so they have to buy from the same sources and compete to sell. While still working at the Coop, we worked hard on finding what we called "Market differentiation". Or trying to find something that made us not have to constantly compete on price point for commodity type products (UAN, AA, P, K, etc), It's a way to change the conversation from price point to added value of the 'other" product. This became more important for newer salesman as many times these products have tons of advertising information to "back up" the product recommendation, not just their word.
3. In fairness to the industry, what one person says and another interprets and then repeats seems to get wild on some of these deals. Likely this products information doesn't say directly to use less or that it's guaranteed to be better than ATS. According to the label it's actually partially made from ATS.
Does adding humic to sulfur benefit you, I honestly don't know as I've never tried it or have seen any data from independent research to say it works. What I started with in this post are things that are real and measurable.
Lastly other than not wanting to allow grower choice, it doesn't make sense to have eliminated ATS as an option, while ramping up a new product to sell. That's a dangerous "all eggs in one basket" approach. | |
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Reax sulfur from Loveland
