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Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by CSMastermind on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:32PM (#40627354)
It's weird that they don't talk about what they're doing that supposedly makes the soil so special. They mention that once they installed the soil at the Pirates stadium (about 2 hours away from where it's manufactured) the number of rain delays dropped. If it were a property of the local soil you'd assume the existing soil in the pirates stadium would already have it. I can't believe the clay composition differs that much on a two hour drive.

Instead I'm guessing it has something to do with how they process it?

Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by SkyPuncher on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:50PM (#40627509)
This video may be of interest to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AUq3BSoLY
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:39PM (#40627408)
Pennsylvania is a geologically diverse state. The soil can definitely vary across short distances.
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by tadfisher on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:52PM (#40627528)
Yes, and Western PA has the Poconos mountain chain, so various geologic strata are exposed in close proximity.
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by anyonecancode on Sunday June 09, 2024 @05:29PM (#40627779)
Poconos are actually eastern PA. There are also mountains in western PA, but I don't know their names without looking it up.
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by 5555624 on Sunday June 09, 2024 @05:33PM (#40627807)
The Allegheny Mountains are in western Pennsylvania.
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by 5555624 on Sunday June 09, 2024 @05:31PM (#40627794)
The Poconos are in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by giantg2 on Sunday June 09, 2024 @08:53PM (#40628975)
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by CSMastermind on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @11:43PM (#40654248)
Super helpful, thank you!
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by nubinetwork on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:45PM (#40627462)
> It's weird that they don't talk about what they're doing that supposedly makes the soil so special.

That would be like a bakery asking McDonald's how much sugar they put in their buns. If everyone could do it, they'd be out of business.

Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by affinepplan on Monday June 10, 2024 @10:21AM (#40633963)
the sugar content of a McDonald's bun is public knowledge

Their competitive advantage has nothing to do (or at least extremely little) with recipe trade secrets. Any professional test kitchen could reproduce any McDonald's item within weeks

Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by seanw444 on Monday June 10, 2024 @06:14PM (#40639819)
Exactly. McDonald's not-so-secret secret recipe is immense scale.
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by DiggyJohnson on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:40PM (#40639487)
Soil conditions can definitely vary wildly within 100 miles, and Pennsylvania goes from coast to river valley to mountains in much less distance.
Re:Why Western Pennsylvania dirt is used in the infields of ... by teruakohatu on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:49PM (#40639576)
New Zealand is a major milk exporter, some countries pay a premium for our milk.

And yet the milk we locals buy in the supermarket (which I am sure is the same as our exports) is milk that has been divided into its core elements (fat sugar protein) and the recombined in a certain ratio.

New Zealand milk does not come from a cow, and I would think PA dirt baseball fields do not come from the ground, but rather PA has the right raw ingredients at hand.

On a side now people here pay a premium for “raw milk” (unpasteurised straight from a cow).