To drive the point home even further - the first line item BTU is "as received" (or darn close to it!). The second line item BTU is "dry basis", and in fact my bags state 8789 (not 8900). Sure I'll say it again, you guys in Maine are getting the best deal in NE with those MWPs @ $236.
I've been producing 90,000 tons of the same pellet going on 4 years - my price for fiber hasn't budged. I could use ground up crap like some producers but I will not sacrifice the brand to save a few dollars. I use NG to dry my wood not fuel oil it hasn't moved either in the last 4 years. And by the way why my pellets are so low in ash. The issue is we don't have enough producers or clean residuals to buy at a lower price. When I purchased the mill as a particle board plant they were buying clean pine shavings for $40 ton delivered now you can't touch it for under $75 a direct correlation to pellet cost. Why because today people are bidding for 1/3 the supply. We know the laws of supply and demand.
