Sutter Land Management is the preeminent land management company in the Valley.

management

From Chico to West Sacramento we can manage your project from planting to harvest to comprehensive financial management. 

Development

From bare dirt to replacing an existing orchard, we can tackle any project, no matter size nor complexity.

consulting

We have extensive experience in developing, maintaining and harvesting various orchard crops in seven counties.

harvesting

If it's olives, almonds or walnuts, we have your harvesting needs covered.

RELATIONSHIPS

We have developed many meaningful relationships with growers, processors, vendors and contractors.

 

RICE PRODUCTION

If rice is your crop of choice, we can help you prepare, plant, grow and harvest your short- or medium-grain varieties.

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Management

We are generational farmers that have over 60 years of combined experience.

We are generational farmers that have over 60 years of combined experience managing many permanent plantings including:

  • Walnuts

  • Peaches

  • Prunes

  • Almonds

  • High Density Olives

  • Rice

From planting to harvest, we can manage the entire life cycle of your asset. We also provide accounting services which include budgeting and reporting so you have all the information you need to see how your field or orchard is performing.

“Thank you again for looking after our farm and allowing us some very special time with our families we both appreciated it a lot and will not forget it.”
— Bob Amarel, Reason Farms
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CONSULTING

We meet with you onsite to understand your goals & expectations.

We can provide one-off, fee based consulting to help you develop a plan for your asset.  Meeting you onsite and understanding your goals and expectations will help better align your vision with your asset's potential.  A game plan will be developed for you or your farm manager to follow, with monthly or quarterly reviews to ensure you are on the right track.

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DEVELOPMENT

From small to large developments....

we have the experience & horsepower to take on any project.

From small to large developments, we have the experience and horsepower to take on any project.  We manage the entire process, working either in-house or with the many sub-contractors we have developed relationships with over the years.  Some of the tasks we manage include:

  • Soil & water sampling
  • Irrigation design and layout, including water demand and capacity analysis
  • Ground preparation, including slope identification, leveling and ripping
  • Orchard layout and preparation
  • Planting
  • Orchard management
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HARVESTING

Customized to your almond or walnut crop.

We offer custom harvesting services in the Sacramento Valley for almonds and walnuts. 

This includes:

  • Harvest timing review and orchard floor preparedness

  • Shaking

  • Sweeping

  • Conditioning, when needed

  • Harvesting

  • Bulk shuttling

  • Trucking

Shaking walnuts.

Stick removal from walnut harvest.

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RICE PRODUCTION

20 years of experience

With over 20 years producing rice in the northern Sacramento Valley, we have seen it all... and we're not afraid of this challenging commodity.

We offer consulting services to help you grow and/or harvest your commodity, to a turn-key management solution for the entire crop lifecycle.  Either way, you know you are covered when you need it most.

  • Laser leveling
  • Ground preparation, including chiseling, discing, floating and pre-plant fertilizing
  • Flood up and planting
  • Water management
  • Pest and disease control
  • Harvest
  • Straw decomposition and winter preparation

 

“When customers ask me who I would recommend, I think of Sutter Land Management. In fact, they are the only farm managers I use on my own ranches.”
— John Post, Agricultural Advisors, Inc.
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We know what we're doing...

and so do the folks we work with.

Our many years experience has led us down many exciting roads.  And along the way, we have developed many meaningful relationships with growers, processors, vendors and contractors. It's these relationships that we lean on to help us achieve the lofty goals our customers and clients aspire to.  From banks to agricultural advisors to marketing companies, we are connected to the right folks to make sure your asset, and it's products are in good hands.

And if our relationships don't yield the information or outcome desired, we will search high and low to find the resource needed to accomplish the task at hand.