Broker

Your Dedicated Broker

To help serve our customers with year round service on some items, Riverbend Fresh, LLC also acts as a broker. Shopping all major growing areas for the best quality and value available provides our customers with increased profits. If we don’t grow it, we can buy it and deliver it. On time delivery of the quality produce is a big part of our business.

All of our fields are certified by Primus Labs and are fully compliant with the Good Agricultural Practices (GAP). These practices are your guarantee that Riverbend Fresh LLC provides the safest, cleanest growing and distribution environment.

RBF complies with Food Safety and Traceability Efforts

Keeping Consumers Safe

Testing seeds, fertilizers, and composts of known origin and tested for pathogens and contaminants

Irrigation and post-harvest water tested for purity

Minimal use of chemical pest prevention using only approved pesticides

Meet stringent pesticide residue guidelines and in many cases certified pesticide residue-free status

Rigorously enforced hygiene practices for harvest crews and post-harvest employees and equipment

Testing, documentation and certification of food safety performance

General Brokered Items

If we don’t grow it, we can buy it and deliver it. On time delivery of the quality produce is a big part of our business. We Broker just about everything. By the pallet cost range from $75 to $110 per pallet on delivered.

Grapes, Citrus, Fruit

Riverbend Label Program

California Asparagus: March – May

Hard Squash - Butternut & Spaghetti: May-December…Spring/Summer

Organic Heirlooms: June 16 - August 15

Organic Hard Squash: Now-Gone

Green Bell Peppers: June 15-October Frost

Red & Yellow Bells: July 15-October Frost

Cantaloupe: July 1-30…25,000… Gap.. September 15-October

Our Organics

ORGANIC HEIRLOOM TOMATOES

Three pack options:

10lb large mix, baseball and larger size. Medium pack size baseball and smaller.

Choice pack, 1 inch growth crack or more at stem end; may also pack softer or more ripe fruit in a choice also. All packs strive for at least a three color mix of 16 available varieties in four color categories red, yellow, orange, purple.

Harvest dates will be Mid June, peaking July 5 and finishing sometime in August. Two loading locations, Bakersfield and Kerman, CA. Ads set at the $ 27.00 mark on the large mix. May see some fruit in late July around $ 20.00. Value pricing opportunities for medium and choice grades.

Success on heirlooms is packing the right varieties and shipping them in the right stage of maturity. Having outlets for the small and soft fruit is another challenge. All ideas and programs are welcome.

ORGANIC ROMA TOMATOES.

Will be doing a field pick and pack that will need to be repacked to size and properly color sort. Harvest late June into July. Looking

for ideas here.

ORGANIC BUTTERNUT AND SPAGHETTI SQUASH.

Harvest date October. Planning on storing and packing to order after the new year unless the market is strong sooner.

Our Conventional

CONVENTIONAL Primus certified, Harvest Mark and GTI all in place here.

Green and Red Bell Peppers.

Harvest Mid June into October. Heavy in the front window. Loading out of Mendota. New to the Riverbend label this year. A very nice program with a lot of growth in the coming seasons.

Cantaloupe.

Light supplies this year. Will ramp up for next year as needed.

Hard Squash: Butternut & Spaghetti.

Harvest in fall.