Blue Diamond Almond Facts March-April 2021

Mark Jansen President & CEO PRESIDENT’S CORNER It’s difficult to believe that just over a year ago our world was turned upside down from a public health crisis that impacted nearly every facet of our daily lives. Fortunately, with the adoption of new public safety measures and the introduction of vaccines, we can all start to breathe a sigh of relief that light at the end of this pandemic tunnel finally is in view. I’m encouraged that we were able to successfully secure a vaccine administrator and the COVID-19 vaccine doses needed to host on-site vaccine clinics for our team members at all three Blue Diamond facilities. This is just one more step we’ve taken to ensure the health and safety of our workforce. I’ve shared with you before that I’m tremendously proud of how well our Blue Diamond team members pivoted over the last 12 months to ensure our facilities were able to continue receiving and processing the record-sized crop from our growers. Despite unexpected challenges to production demands, supply chain channels, and consumer behaviors we kept the manufacturing lines running and the shipments flowing. Related to shipments, supply chain issues remain a global challenge, particularly at the Port of Oakland where agriculture products are stacked at the port with ships returning empty to Asia due to slow turnaround times. Our Blue Diamond team has been working overtime to reschedule and find new ways to get product to our global customers. As a co-op we seize any opportunity we can to celebrate our grower-owners. For the fifth year in a row, The White House publicly recognized National Ag Day on March 23 in a well-deserved salute to the contributions of America’s farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses. This year’s proclamation recognized the role that the two million American farmers and ranchers played over the last unprecedented year in ensuring a safe and abundant food supply for families around the world. Through an extension of our co-op’s efforts to recognize and celebrate the diversity we appreciate in our Blue Diamond workforce, we took the opportunity to combine recognition of March as Women’s History Month with Ag Day in giving a shout out to our women almond growers. This was just one of several social media posts over the last two months as we increased our corporate social media engagement efforts to better connect our co-op and our growers to the communities we serve. You can read more about those efforts and other co-op news in the News in a Nutshell section of this issue. We continue marketing though the record 2020 crop that is now estimated to top 3.1 billion pounds. I’m inspired by our relentless focus on innovation that delivers value to our growers through new uses of, and new markets for, their almonds. Our newest snack nut flavor family, XTREMES ™ , brings on the heat to reach a younger target market share than almonds have traditionally. Internationally, we also recently introduced Almond Breeze ™ Almond Cooking Cream in Brazil, a cutting- edge non-dairy creamy base for dishes like beef stroganoff and alfredo pastas. You’ll find more details about both of these innovative outside-the-box Blue Diamond products in the following pages. 6 A L M O N D F A C T S