Diamond Walnuts are the best walnuts for cooking, baking and snacking! Find them here in-shell or shelled, whole, halved, chipped, chopped or diced., On 1 July 2005, members of the walnut-marketing cooperative Diamond Walnut Growers (DWG) voted to convert into a publicly traded stockholder-owned corpora-tion. The cooperative’s history can be traced back to 1912, when chaotic marketing conditions led to the formation of the California Walnut Marketing Association., STOCKTON — In the migrant labor camps of this Delta town, Diamond Walnut was a way out of the tomato and onion fields that trapped the lives of young single mothers like Toni Escobedo., On July 1, 2005, members of Diamond Walnut voted to approve the conversion of the cooperative to a stockholder-owned corporation, by merging it into its wholly owned subsidiary, Diamond Foods., Formed in 1912 by a handful of walnut farmers, Diamond was an amalgamation of five agricultural cooperatives — Diamond Walnut Growers, Sun-Maid Growers of California, Sunsweet Growers, Valley Fig Growers, and Hazelnut Growers of Oregon — who pooled their distribution and marketing resources., Three aspects of property rights theory are particularly relevant to the conversion of the walnut-marketing cooperative, Diamond Walnut Growers (DWG), into a publicly traded stockholder-owned corporation..