Blue Diamond Growers

Blue Diamond Growers

Blue Diamond Growers is a California-based agricultural cooperative and marketing organization that specializes in almonds. Founded in 1910, the organization claims to be the world's largest "tree nut processing and marketing company". It serves 3500 almond growers, and helps make the almond crop (valued at over $1 billion) California's largest food export.

See also

* Diamond of California — a unrelated walnut growing company (and former cooperative).

External links

* [http://www.bluediamond.com/ Blue Diamond Growers home page]


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