Market Farming

["Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>]

I'm away from my reference materials, can't find clear info on the web 
(limited time to search), & really need some expert answers.

Is rock phosphate also called triple phosphate??
Does the color vary from mine to mine?

Liz

PS  I went to purchase more rock phosphate at the same location where I got 
my stuff last year.  A new guy was available to help (They said the owner 
was still on vacation, but I think he was hiding in the back!).  I very 
slowly, very plainly explained what I wanted-black rock phosphate from our 
local state mine.  They proceeded to load 14-50# bags.  The clerk began 
filling out the receipt & I looked over her shoulder.  The loaded bags were 
not what I ordered!! It was something else entirely.  I asked if this was 
rock phosphate, & they told me I could call it what ever I wanted.  By this 
time every worker on the dock was watching!  (How embarrassing-this is a 
very redneck area!)  I repeated that this stuff must come from our local 
state mine.  I was again assured that it did.  So I asked to see their 
records of delivery.  Guess what?  Came from Florida, nothing wrong with 
that, but NOT what I ordered.  Why, I asked, when we can get our own, 
BETTER, stuff just 50 miles away,like I did last spring.  Cooporate 
consolidation was the answer.  They were flabbergasted when I kindly (with 
gritted teeth!) requested those bags to be off loaded pronto.  And then, as 
I was leaving, the head guy had the gaul to ask, just what is organic 
farming.  I've got a long row to hoe!!