To: kidl who wrote (15826 ) 3/14/2018 1:39:06 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 16582 Farmers do tend to be conservative, stick with what they know to work, quite resistant to promotion ... at the same time they are pretty logical by nature, have to be in work with such full-on contact with reality ... once the greensand is seen to be overall superior to imported chloride in each area, word will get around ... this will take some time, crop cycles and all that, and like Kaiser says, it'll be repeat sales that confirm Verde to be on path to success ... just a matter of time imho, only iffiness is timeline of permitting, authorities would have to be nuts or intentionally evil to deny/delay progress, but such conditions are not unknown in guvmint ... in all other respects the current project is as simple and straight-forward as you can get, no likely issues beyond maybe dust control and noise [who lives within earshot of plant? - would be one question, i recall the answer from years ago to be no one, not even close, but that was then] Cannabis vs. food - well the weight of biomass required to get folks high, compared to keeping them fed, is pretty trivial ... however the greensand is 'organic', which should help in promotion at retail level, and outweigh the cost of getting it to NA or Europe It costs fifteen cents canuckistani to ship a bottle of wine from Sydney Oz to Vancouver, while it costs twenty-five cents to truck one from Kelowna to Van ... read this in a shipping trade magazine on the weekend, article on the changes to commerce made by containerisation ... the 20kg bags mentioned by JK will be a good idea, load containers with them right on site, i'd hazard a guess that the shipping on them will be net-net cheaper than shipping the chloride bulk from northern hemisphere to the south ... and if i see a bag in a farm/garden shop, i'll be having it right then, cash on the spot