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I could believe that Swheat Scoop was the low bidder once someone in the purchasing chain had ruled out the clay options, but I'd be very surprised if any of th

• brudgers 9y ago
  With fill dirt the way the market works is if some Owner has an unbalanced site where there's more cut than fill, then the fill dirt is a bargain because the Owner would otherwise have to pay to haul the dirt away. On the other hand, if tho Owner needing fill dirt heads down to his local dirt mine, the proprietor can stick to their asking price because the dirt in the dirt mine doesn't go bad. My suspicion is that someone was sitting on a big pile of wheat waste, which unlike fill dirt is organic and probably goes bad and probably needs to be moved off the wheat processing lot for next week/month/year's wheat harvest...and the wheat waste (unlike fill dirt) probably needs to be disposed of properly in a sanitary landfill and that's some more expense. I mean at some point, someone is probably paying to have the wheat waste hauled away, whereas zeolite and other clay minerals are typically mined deliberately.