Potash is a fertilizer used by farmers to increase crop yields. That’s important because the world’s population is expected to increase to roughly 10 billion over the next 40 years (or so) — that’s 2.5 billion more mouths to feed. And we aren’t making any more farmland, so farmers need to do more with less.
That’s the compelling backdrop underpinning the stories of Potash Corporation (NYSE: POT) and Mosaic (NYSE: MOS), two of the top potash stocks for long-term investors to buy in 2017.