Blue Diamond Growers is a unique organization that is both a century old agricultural cooperative and a global consumer packaged goods (CPG) company. The co-op’s vision is to deliver the benefits of almonds to the world by expanding the markets and innovative uses of our growers’ quality almonds around the globe.

Blue Diamond offers a diverse portfolio of branded consumer products that can be found worldwide.

To meet the needs of a greater customer base, the cooperative offers a broad range of wholesale and nutrient-dense almond ingredients to consumer products manufacturers, in a variety of forms and variations including gluten-free almond flour.

The ultimate goal is to deliver strong consistent returns to the growers who partner with us.

Since 1910, Blue Diamond has been committed to quality, innovation, food safety and responsible and sustainable farming practices.

We are proud to be the…

• First grower-owned cooperative created to market almonds.
• First to develop and build a sheller, size grader and continuous blanching line.
• First to adopt electronic sorting machines.
• First to design and build commercial splitting, slivering and dicing machines for almonds.
• First to develop markets for California almonds in over 80 countries including Japan and China.
• First to promote the nutritional benefits of almonds, since the 1920s.

Today, we proudly serve our Grower-Owners with the…

• World’s largest almond processor with over 2.5 million square feet in three production plants located in Sacramento, Salida and Turlock.
• Industry’s largest refrigerated storage capacity to maintain the freshest, highest quality almonds.
• Most advanced technology and equipment for quality and food safety assurance, processing innovation and production efficiencies.

We are partnering with global and domestic markets to deliver value-added products while complementing the continued sales strength of the brown almond.