Sure you can ...because you are making a product that is made by mother nature....SPF is an acronym, which stands for spruce, pine and fir and it's a combination of those Canadian trees grown in various regions of the country. All produce high-grade timber with relatively small, sound tight knots and the color of ranges from white to pale yellow. If I remember from my old lumber trading days...there are something like 30+ species that fall under that grade. Since the vast majority of sawdust comes from lumber mills to make pellets...it's very possible that the mill usually runs a mix of logs that could be lodgepole pine, but get into a stand of white fir. Very similar but a slight difference in color may appear.
Well yes and no.....there are a handful of brands that normally wouldn't be available (in this case New England) unless either a broker or the mill went to special lengths to get the product to that market, not normally serviced by the manufacture. Examples of this would be LaCrete, Northern Warmth, Pinnacle, Princeton and a handful of pellets from Quebec. It usually takes extra effort and a good bit more in transportation costs to get these pellets to that market and in some cases are sold under a different brand name...but its still the same pellet. Many industries do this for various reasons and is not just something that happens in the wood pellet industry.....
I agree. I don't think it's a bad thing. It's just business. In my college years, I worked for a commercial bakery and we put plenty of bags with different names and colors on the same loaf of bread. Different stores, different brands, different areas, different clientele.
