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Scranton | My first week working for an FS in NW IA back in the early 90s, I was helping my boss do inventory for his branch. We got to the 28% tank and he measured it, then turned the main water line on into the tank. Ran it up several inches in a large metal vertical tank, then shut it off...perfect. I asked about it. He said, Oh, it will be 26 or 27%. No one will know.
We were also told to be on the scale when loaded with dry fertilizer in a tender or spreader, off when weighing empty. I weighed maybe 180 at the time. Some drivers weighed double that. An extra 360# for every 10 ton tender going out.
We had a Ranco blender. You set the speed for each screw after figuring the formula for your dry fertilizer analysis. Urea, Dap, Potash. Once set you gave the potash dial a spin. You were then selling cheap potash for higher prices of urea and DAP. Comptroller could never figure out why we were always long on Urea and DAP and short on potash.
Had some customers that complained every year about something. Demanded you take some off their bill after it was applied. Fine. The next year we cut their fertilizer by that much for application, but not for billing. One 1000 acre farmer it was 20 acres worth of NPK plus cropstar.
Lots of ways to screw you over. You would never know.
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