My FNA Nitrogen showed up today

[dave4441]

2 years ago I purchased Clear-Out in the US direct at CAD $3.30/L (about US $3/l). US dollar was at 90 cents. At the same time, FNA was bringing Clearout into Canada at CAD $4.25 delivered to your farm. Transport costs do not cost a dollar per litre (maybe 10 or 15 cents max). They were making millions above your membership fees. It is a crock, to think that they are trying to pretend to be a farm organization that gives the grower the best possible price, and at the same time, charging more margin then any dealer/supply chain in Canada. Notice that Clearout is the only product that they have the grower pay them direct, all other products you buy from the dealer (46 is different, and you can guarantee that the "rebate" will be small compared to the actual cost of the product). I think they did a great thing and moved our input cost on one product down, but then the following year they tied up all production of Clearout in the US so they could increase margin even more. Additionally, they created a monopoly over a federal public program (OUI-Clearout) It never fails to amaze me that this is never publicly discussed when the FNA name comes up. To top it off, they have a regestration number for the product and could have legally supplied the product in Canada like every other chem supplier. They had comparable margins but did not want to deal with any of the negatives to selling chemicals. ie efficacy, container disposal.