Your boots on the ground supply chain partner
Mesa Verde Trading Company was founded with a clear vision by Dwight Weigand, who comes from a long family tradition of growing fresh produce and producing livestock feed ingredients. Today, Dwight works alongside his sons, Jack and Daniel, continuing to drive the company forward with the same dedication to quality and innovation.
Over the years, Mesa Verde has expanded its operations to meet the evolving needs of the pet food and livestock industries. In addition to producing top-tier livestock feed ingredients, Mesa Verde has become a leader in the production of innovative dried vegetable and fruit ingredients for pet food manufacturers.
With four state-of-the-art drying and processing facilities located in America’s most fertile agricultural regions, Mesa Verde maintains strict control over its entire supply chain—from sourcing to processing. We work directly with trusted growers and food processors to ensure the highest standards of quality. Our team is involved at every step, ensuring that products are monitored, processed, and delivered with care.
Now, we are proud to be expanding into pre-consumer dry and liquid food recovery, turning food that would have otherwise been sent to landfills into sustainable, high-quality livestock ingredients. This new endeavor highlights our commitment to environmental responsibility while continuing to provide premium products to our customers.
Companies and Locations
Mesa Verde’s growth and success have enabled us to expand our operation in new and exciting ways, strategically locating in top agricultural regions to ensure optimal ingredient sourcing and provide the best possible service to our valued customers.
Mesa Verde Trading Company
Fresno, California
Headquartered in California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, Mesa Verde Trading Company's processing capabilities include mechanical and solar drying, extruding and pelletizing, custom blending and commercial food waste recovery.
Mesa Verde Ingredients
Fresno, California
Our original processing facility specializes in tomato pomace, dried carrot and dried potato – all grown in the heart of California, home of the world's finest fresh produce.
Mesa Verde Food Recovery
McFarland, California
This eco-friendly new division intercepts waste food products headed for the landfill, and uses a unique process to upcycle them into clean, high-quality feed blends. Another resourceful solution from the leaders in ingredient innovation.
Mesa Verde Boston Transload
Boston, Indiana
Our innovative new transload site allows ingredients to be received and shipped by both rail and road freight – all in a single facility for superior resource management – allowing Mesa Verde to provide optimized service to our valued Midwest customers.
Kern Delta
Bakersfield, California
This processing facility produces a variety of high-quality ingredients – including pelletized products – including dried sweet potatoes, carrots, pomegranates and broccoli, all grown in California's renowned San Joaquin Valley.
Colorado Gourmet Potatoes
Center, Colorado
Specializing in top-quality dried and ground whole potato, this processing facility is based in one of the world's foremost potato-growing regions.
Cascade Potatoes
Malin, Oregon
Strategically located in one of the world's top potato-growing areas, this facility processes dried and ground whole potato of the highest quality.
Red River Potatoes
Grand Forks, North Dakota
A processor of fine dried and ground whole potato, this facility is stationed in the heart of a world class potato-growing region.
Vento Verde
Cremona, Italy
Quality Assurance
Quality First, From the Field to the Customer
Our Certifications
Here at Mesa Verde, Quality Assurance is more than just a checkbox. It’s our passion. It’s what drives us to personally connect with every grower and manage every point in the supply chain, ensuring that our sourced-fresh products are truly of premium quality.
Granular traceability
Another benefit of having personal, longstanding relationships with our growers is how it contributes to supply chain traceability. We can often track a fresh product down to the parcel of land on which it was grown.
Relentless quality checks
All Mesa Verde facilities operate with stringent quality control checkpoints at each stage of production. These are closely monitored throughout all points of product processing, packaging and shipping to ensure the highest standards of product quality.
Meticulous food safety
Mesa Verde facilities are in full compliance with all protocols and standards established by the food safety organizations that govern and monitor our industry.
Up-to-the-minute certifications
All Mesa Verde operations are consistently kept current with all required safety, health and environmental standards and certifications.
Strategic sourcing
Mesa Verde’s processing facilities are strategically located in the regions where our source products are grown. This proximity enables us to supervise harvesting and monitor product quality from the farm to our facilities.
Fulfilling our promise
Mesa Verde’s hard-earned reputation for quality and integrity is widely known by our customers and competitors. We seek to protect and enhance this reputation every day as we extend our record of quality and safety that has spanned decades without ever involving a recall. We promise to give our customers the same attention, providing safe ingredients that safeguard their reputation for quality and elevate their brand position.