Hay Growers Association

Providing High-Quality Dairy Feed Products

San Joaquin Valley Hay Growers Association in Tracy, CA is a licensed and bonded grower-owned agricultural cooperative established in 1940 to market alfalfa hay, grain hay, grass hay, sudangrass, straw, and corn stover. Our hay growers association offers our customers easy access to high-quality dairy feed products that are competitively priced. As the world's largest hay growers association, it is our mission to provide growers with quality alfalfa and forage products directly.

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Dairy Feed Products

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Hay Growers

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Here at San Joaquin Valley Hay Growers Association, you can take advantage of quality and affordable dairy feed products. We are a hay growers association that is committed to providing farmers with a wide range of premium-quality products for their livestock. If you wish to learn more about or become a member of our hay growers association, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We are more than happy to answer all of your questions. We hope to hear from you soon!

History and Vision

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Visionaries

Rick Staas

President/CEO

“As I looked through the historical records from the past 79 years, I was and still am in awe of the foresight of the thirty men who founded this company in 1940. The continued success of the San Joaquin Valley Hay Growers Association is a great tribute to the uncanny vision these individuals had at a very uncertain time for themselves and other alfalfa growers. Somehow they saw something that no one else did and joined forces to create an organization that grew quickly and has remained the marketing leader in the California alfalfa industry since its inception.

Having been with this company for 37 years, I have been around long enough to have experienced many ups and downs for our growers, but somehow I don’t think I have walked in their boots. After combing through decades of company literature, I am amazed at the many obstacles and setbacks that were overcome in the early years of this association. Yes, our industry is presently awash in overregulation and buried in paperwork, but somehow I think it is still easier to be a hay grower and hay seller today than it was in the forties and fifties. I believe this is due in large part to those founding members who saw something that many of us would have never seen.

This association has not only survived but also prospered on the basic principles set forth in 1940, and those principles in the form of our bylaws and marketing agreement have remained basically unchanged for 79 years. Many of our current members are related to our founders and should be very proud of their ancestors for establishing this cooperative and providing them and all hay growers with the opportunity to be a part of the largest and most successful hay marketing cooperative in the world.”

San Joaquin Valley Hay Growers Association

Rick Staas, President/CEO

We are a licensed and bonded broker/dealer.

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Headquarters

Address: 5055 W 11th St, Tracy, CA 95304 | Phone:

209-835-1662 |

Fax: 209-835-0179

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Branch Office

Address: 1849 E Pacheco Blvd, Los Banos, CA 93635 | Phone:

209-826-5101 |

Fax: 209-826-0779

Mailing Address

Address: P.O. Box 1127, Tracy, CA 95378-1127 | Email: contact@sjvhaygrowers.com

Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Saturday to Sunday: Closed

Affiliations: California Alfalfa and Forage Association | California Alfalfa and Forage Research Foundation | California Grain and Feed Association |

California Women for Agriculture | Family Water Alliance | National Alfalfa and Forage Alliance |

National Hay Association

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