Nathan Atkinson

Agra Marketing Group brings together a remarkable group of professionals dedicated to developing by-product markets and providing production resources to growers throughout the western United States. Agra Marketing Group has worked for over 30 years to create a large network for both seasonal and year-round by-products. Our experts in marketing, logistics, and finance actively manage every step of the by-product trading process. Starting with just a small office and a handful of marketable products in 1991, our product list now exceeds over 100 by-products being processed and/or traded through three locations within the Central Valley. A major force within the tree nut industry, Agra Marketing markets roughly 350 million lbs. of various tree nut by-products annually. Our team has developed markets for these by-products with a variety of utilizations including bioenergy, carbon production, crude tree nut oil, wild bird feed, and cattle feed. Agra Marketing Group has worked for over a decade to improve both the soil and fertility of conventional and organic farming systems. Our soils division, Agra Life Soils, specializes in custom premium soil blends and bulk soil inputs. Our latest developments include a large vermicompost operation and the acquisition of our tree nut by-products processing facility in Ripon, CA. Agra Marketing Group is dedicated to a healthy future for agriculture and the by-products industry. If you'd like to learn more about our products and services, please contact us.