Central Valley AG Group

What Central Valley AG Group does

Central Valley AG Group (CVAG) is a privately held, vertically integrated bulk commodity logistics, processing, and materials company headquartered in Northern California. The company operates four facilities across the Central Valley and key port corridors: a nearly 200-acre Oakdale Langworth manufacturing and green waste recycling site supported by a 1MW solar farm, a Port of Oakland overweight-corridor facility served by both UP and BNSF with EDI gate connections and FGIS-certified grain transloading, a Port of Stockton bulk vessel transloading site with high-capacity warehousing, and a Turlock facility on State Hwy 99 focused on feed ingredient processing and dairy markets.

CVAG's core service platform spans bulk container and rail transloading, container storage and overweight handling, trucking and drayage using a diverse equipment fleet (live floors, end dumps, roll-offs up to 50 yards, tankers, dry vans, low boys), mobile grinding for on-site processing, dehydration, milling, grinding and screening, and certified recycling and destruction of green waste, wood waste, food waste, and packaged products. Product lines include feed ingredients sourced from Central Valley nut, fruit, food, and beverage industries (including custom feed mixes), GGL-certified walnut shell biomass for renewable energy buyers, and landscaping materials such as mulch, compost, potting soil, and bark.

The business model is built on transaction-fee service revenue across transloading, trucking, processing, and recycling, supplemented by unit-priced sales of feed ingredients, biomass, and landscape materials (e.g., almond hulls at $70/ton, walnut shells at $10/yard). CVAG serves agricultural, nut, fruit, and wine producers, food manufacturers with zero-waste mandates, dairy and livestock feed buyers, biomass power plants, and consumer landscaping customers through direct enterprise sales and a public retail counter at the Oakdale facility. Differentiators include USDA Organic, FGIS, FSMA, CCOF, and GGL certifications, a customer portal with real-time inventory visibility, a mobile driver check-in app, and over 20 years of railcar management expertise.

Name

Central Valley AG Group

Legal name

Central Valley AG Group

Website

https://www1.cv-ag.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Central Valley AG Group (CVAG) is a privately held Northern California logistics and processing company that provides bulk transloading, trucking, processing, recycling, and feed/biomass/landscape material sales to agricultural, food manufacturing, dairy, and renewable energy customers across four California facilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Logistics and Bulk Commodity Processing

NAICS

Farm Product Warehousing and Storage (493130), Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (11)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150), Retail-Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply (5200)

akta.pro primary industry

Rail-Served Bulk Grain Terminals & Transload Warehouses (AFAOACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Yard Waste, Land Clearing & Green Waste Processing (Mulch/Compost Feedstock) (BPALAEAG), Urban Wood Waste & Land Clearing Biomass Supply (C&D Wood, Tree Trimmings) (EUAAAFAL), Digestate & Compost Product Processing, Marketing & Distribution (Soil Amendments, Mulch) (EUAIAEAE), Inland River/Barge Grain Terminals & Warehousing (AFAOACAE)

Keywords

• Bulk transloading services
• Agricultural logistics
• Container drayage services
• Biomass materials supply
• Landscape materials retail

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Transloading Services: Revenue from bulk vessel transloading, rail transloading, and container transloading services. Provides loading/unloading of hopper cars, direct-to-container transfers, and import/export container handling.
2. Trucking and Drayage Services: Transportation services using diverse equipment including live floors, end dumps, roll-offs, tankers, dry vans. Drayage services across Central Valley for agricultural, nut, fruit, and wine industries.
3. Recycling and Waste Management: Disposal and recycling services for green waste, wood waste, food waste, and packaged products. Provides Certificate of Destruction for compliant disposal.
4. Processing Services: Fee-based processing including dehydration (solar/mechanical), milling, grinding and screening for feed ingredients, agricultural byproducts, and biomass materials.
5. Product Sales: Sale of landscape materials (mulch, compost, potting soil), feed ingredients (nut shells, almond hulls, walnut products), and biomass materials for renewable energy sector.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Central Valley AG Group provides bulk commodity transloading (railcar-to-truck), container drayage and handling, mobile grinding, processing services (dehydration, milling, grinding, screening), and recycling of wood and food waste into feed ingredients, biomass, and landscaping materials. Customers include agricultural producers, food manufacturers, livestock feed buyers, biomass power generators, and retail landscaping buyers across California's Central Valley and the Port of Oakland export corridor.

Product overview

Central Valley AG Group is a comprehensive logistics, processing, and materials company offering bulk commodity transloading, logistics, procurement, inventory management, and processing services with a focus on livestock feed ingredients and biomass materials. The company operates a multi-service platform consisting of three core product lines (Feed Ingredients, Biomass, and Landscaping Materials) supported by an integrated network of logistics services including container handling at Northern California rail-served facilities, rail transloading at Oakland and Stockton, trucking with diverse equipment, mobile grinding, and processing services (dehydration, milling, grinding and screening). The company operates four strategic facilities in Oakdale (Langworth - 200 acres with 1MW solar), Oakland (Port of Oakland), Stockton (Port of Stockton), and Turlock, providing feed ingredient storage, container handling, warehousing, and bulk loading services across California's agricultural heartland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bulk Commodity Transloading Railcar-to-truck transloading of bulk commodities including grain and other agricultural products, with FGIS certification capability. Serves agricultural producers, grain handlers, and food manufacturers shipping through California's Central Valley and Port of Oakland corridor.
• Container Drayage and Handling
• Trucking and Transportation Services
• Mobile Grinding Service
• Stationary Processing (Dehydration, Milling, Grinding, Screening)
• Wood Waste and Packaged Food Recycling
• Feed Ingredient Products
• GGL-Certified Biomass
• Landscaping Materials (Mulch, Compost, Soil)

Quantifiable outcome

• 20+ years of railcar management expertise

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• J.D. Heiskell & Co. California-based bulk agricultural commodity handler with milling, transloading, and dairy/livestock feed operations — the closest direct peer in CVAG's geographic and product footprint.
• GreenWaste Recovery: Bay Area organics and green-waste recycler producing compost, mulch, and soil amendments — directly comparable to CVAG's Oakdale Langworth green-waste/recycling operations.
• Zanker Recycling: Northern California organics and C&D recycler operating green-waste composting, mulch production, and diversion services — closely comparable to CVAG's yard-waste-to-landscape-materials workflow.
• Recology: California-based integrated waste and organics recycler with compost and soil-amendment production — comparable breadth in organics/compost and Northern California geography.

Broad incumbents

• Bunge Limited: Global ag commodity merchandiser with port/terminal operations and grain-handling capabilities — overlapping with CVAG's bulk commodity transloading and storage franchise, but vastly larger and globally diversified.
• Cargill: Global ag commodity and supply-chain operator with extensive origination, transloading, and feed-ingredient capabilities — a broad incumbent intersecting CVAG's transloading/feed-ingredient footprint.
• ADM (Archer Daniels Midland): Global ag services and processing company with grain-handling, transloading, and feed ingredients — broad incumbent with overlapping services across CVAG's product lines.
• CHS Inc. U.S. ag cooperative with grain handling, transloading, processing, and feed operations across the Midwest and West Coast — broad incumbent in the same ag-services category.
• Republic Services: National waste and recycling company with significant organics recycling and compost production — broad incumbent directly comparable to CVAG's recycling/C&D wood/green-waste line of business.
• Waste Management (WM): Largest North American waste and recycling operator with organics processing, mulch/compost production, and landfill gas/biomass — broad incumbent overlapping CVAG's recycling and biomass operations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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