Blue Diamond Growers, the Sacramento-based almond cooperative, plans to wind down operations at its historic midtown plant and transfer most manufacturing to sites in Turlock and Salida over the next two years.

The company said the move would bring manufacturing closer to many of its farmers and members, and running those operations out of the C Street facility — a landmark in Sacramento for more than a century — has become inefficient.

“Our Sacramento team’s work ethic and incredible drive have enabled us to build Blue Diamond into what it is today,” President and CEO Kai Bockmann said in a statement. “However, the challenges of running a plant from these historical buildings has become too costly and inefficient. Streamlining our manufacturing plants is the right business move to furth

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