Re[2]: $31,680., $47,520., or $115,560. That's a lot of BAP


Another issue which needs to be noted is the environmental implications of
using BAP 10. Although you may know how to use it and do it safely,
consider others who may not.

     Understand that commercial users are highly regulated for a reason.



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Subject: Re: $31,680., $47,520., or $115,560. That's a lot of BAP 10!
Author:  hosta-open@mallorn.com (owner-hosta-open@mallorn.com) at HERCULES
Date:    03/24/2000 2:45 PM





Please don't take offense, but we are not a golden egg.  BAP10 is used
by
commercial foliage growers in Florida by the 55 gallon drum full.  I
don't know
what other crops it is used on commercially, but Idon't think the
selling to Hosta
Society members is a significant part of their business.  I suspect
that if we all
decided to boycott BAP10, they wouldn't know about it unless we told them.

Chemicals are expensive.  A quart of Roundup concentrate, one of the
most common
herbicides on the market costs about $60, and the cost of many of the
insecticides
and fungicides commonly used by commercial growers would make your
hair curl.  A
5oz bottle of Enstar is $80, a 2oz bottle of Merit is $45.  If you buy
BAP by the
liter, the cost is about $5/oz, and just like anything else, if you
buy in tiny
quantities, you have to pay a lot more than if you buy in larger
quantities.
Nobody is going to bother getting into a business if he's not going to
make any
money at it.

Chick


Bob wrote:

> Meum71@aol.com wrote:
>  Being fair does not mean anything-what does fairness have to do
with
> any
> > thing?
> > Legal- sure- why not?  A person can charge what ever the market will
pay.
> Hi Paul
>         I had been thinking about this before you wrote this. I have
had people
> tell me they couldn't afford it at the high prices charged so there
is
> lost business there which will need filled. It is also priced so
high
> that I am sure there will be competing products someday. They will
kill
> the golden goose.
> --
> Bye
> Bob
>
>                 Bob Axmear 208 2nd St Ne  Waukon,Ia 52172-1308
>                 http://www.hostasonline.com/  Hostasonline.com
>                 http://www.gardensights.com  GARDENSIGHTS.COM
>
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