I've seen noticeable yield differences (STB, Naptha and Xylene pulls, separately) between both Inner Root bark (Although when I purchased "ordinary" root bark, it was just never mentioned to be inner root bark of high quality like the last two vendors I have bought off of, and also bark the that was pre-powdered (Not sure on pre-shredded bark, that is seen on a lot of vendor sites now). I'm only recently reading about increased oxidation with pre-powdered MHRB, but I can definitely vouch on having a weak yield from it.