All filled with risk, but some also with rewards: 12 large- and mid-cap fertilizer stocks with a few potential winners

One sector where efforts at a clean-up have been taking longer than expected is the fertilizer sector. What started with the idea of a coating of neem on urea seems to be getting stuck with one or the other issue. The reality is that, as a sector, it has so many variables that any clean-up will take time. Are we close to an inflection point? The answer is in a grey area. But will it happen in another couple of years? Yes. And will every company get its act together? No.