We purchase almonds from hundreds of growers that successfully manage orchards stretching from San Joaquin County to Kern County in Central California. Our grower partners are innovative, eco-conscious farmers and good stewards of the land. The Almond Company and our sister organizations—The Nursery Company and The Hulling Company—help farmers employ sustainable techniques, including tree selection, soil care, pest management, water conservation, and waste management. Forward-focused, these farmers embrace a balanced stewardship of resources to maximize profits while minimizing environmental impact.
Almonds are graded and sized with advanced electronics that utilize the latest in infrared- and laser-sorting technologies. We also hand-sort, ensuring that we deliver quality and attention our growers appreciate. After sizing and grading, the almonds are typically packed in 50-lb. cartons or metric ton fiber bins.
Global sales affiliate in London
Year-round we ship from Madera, California to corners of the world as varied as the Middle East, Africa, India, China, South America, and Germany. We work with buyers throughout Europe, Asia, and India in real-time through our London affiliate. Our growers are represented by a multilingual sales force that conducts business in real-time throughout Europe and Asia. This unique affiliate relationship in Europe sets us apart in terms of customer satisfaction, risk management, maximizing returns, and expanding sales for our growers.
Custom technology, transparency, access to information, continuous quality improvement in our plant, and real-time data enable our grower partners to be fully informed and satisfied with our services.
As a handler for our growers we effectively work on their behalf to sell and pay them for their crops. Marketing can be done by allocating their production to the Seasonal Pool Marketing (we market and issue progress payments throughout the year) or the Call Pool Marketing. (The grower markets their own product based on market updates and market conditions).
Successful methods developed over many years
The Almond Company can store up to 81.5 million pounds of almonds in bins. We can pack, size, and ship one million pounds per day. And we can load a million pounds, unload a million pounds and fumigate a million pounds a day. Our facility is the world’s largest brown skin almond plant under one roof.
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