The Mosaic Company is a very simple one. It manufactures fertilizer and markets it worldwide. The base minerals, phosphate, and potash come from the company’s mining operations. They are then combined with ammonia to produce crop nutrients, such as di-ammonium phosphate, mono-ammonium phosphate, ammoniated phosphate and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients. The company also produces and sells potash for industrial use such as de-icing and as a water softener regenerant. The company sells its products to wholesale distributors, retail chains, cooperatives, independent retailers, and directly to large agribusinesses. The Mosaic Company was founded in 2004 as a merger of 2 fertilizer companies spun off from Cargill and IMC Global. In 2016, the company generated $298 million in profits on sales of $7.2 billion.
