We are pleased to announce the formation of Atlas Walnuts LLC, one of California’s newest and oldest walnut processors. Most of you know us as Blain Farms, a company that has been processing walnuts and pecans for 25 years. We have decided to separate our walnut and pecan shelling operations and bring in some partners to help with the expansion of the walnut side of our company. We are currently retrofitting our shelling plant on Caldwell Avenue in Visalia with state-of-the-art equipment capable of handling additional tonnage starting with this 2008 crop. We have a unique method of marketing walnuts that evolved from our experiences as both a grower and processor. Atlas Walnuts is offering growers a marketing pool as an alternative to selling their walnuts at speculative prices. Our pools for walnuts and pecans have shown that growers receive the highest possible price for our walnuts when we, as growers, market our crop directly. Processors must always allow for future market fluctuations when they purchase walnuts from a grower for resale at a later date. As a result, the price growers receive is usually discounted to some degree from actual market prices, and some years that discount amounts to a substantial amount of money.

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