The Blue Diamond Growers facility will be winding down operations and leaving its historic midtown Sacramento plant, the company announced Friday. About 600 workers will be impacted by the closure, according to Blue Diamond.

Workers sort almonds at the Blue Diamond Growers almond plant in Sacramento in 2011. Blue Diamond Growers announced it will shut its midtown Sacramento plant, moving operations to Turlock & Salida. Around 600 jobs will be affected in next two years. Lezlie Sterling Sacramento Bee file

Hundreds of Blue Diamond Growers employees in Sacramento will lose their jobs after the company announced Friday that it will shut down operations at its Midtown plant. Blue Diamond said it plans to streamline its operations at its Turlock and Salida locations because the roughly 50-acre Sacramento plant has become "too costly and inefficient.