Product Setup Tips - Blending

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Pre-Packaged Pesticides
Pre-Packaged Pesticides As the industry tries to make the blending of pesticides safer, the development of dissolvable packages has been a challenge for blending programs. The following steps guide the setup of these products. Setting Up Packaged ...
Product Sets Setup
Product Sets are set up and maintained at Blending / Setup / Product Sets . Overview Product Sets are groups of inventory items often combined as blended products. This involves grouping fertilizer or other products (i.e. water, clay, or dry fi...
Calculating Salt Out
This is an estimated temperature at which a fertilizer or a fertilizer mixture begins to form crystals and salt out from suspension. It is dependent on many factors, including the products mixed, the purity of the products mixed, temperature, water ...
Calculating Net Temperature Changes
This is the net temperature change from the base temperature of water added to the mix. When starting with 160-degree water and there is a net change of +75 degrees, the final temperature of the blend is 235 degrees. Any products used in the temper...
Location Preferences - Blending
Preferences allow options to be set, therefore customizing to a degree how the program works for the company. Often these default settings may be overridden as transactions are being entered. Important scale settings, which determine the ac...
Suspension-Type Blends
Method 1 When the Formulate to a given Salt Out Temp checkbox is selected when editing a Product Set at Blending / Setup / Product Sets under the Advanced button, the program will add water (if needed) to the blend to attain the salt out ...