California is in trouble.
We cant keep the lights on, the fires out, or the air clean.
Worst of all, from my perspective as a farmer, is that weve faile...
If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too? As a dad, I may have used that line to get one of my kids to use common sense when considering risk.
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This week's piece is adapted from comments by GFN Board member Ted Sheely from California at the recent announcement at the US Dept of Agriculture that after ye...
My father always said that you cant count on a harvest until it actually comes inbut Im ready toannouncethat this years crop of pistachios, which well sh...
Farmers in California have it tough these days. Despite recent rainfall from El Nino, we continue to suffer through one of the worst droughts in history. We sti...
Ted Sheely is a California farmer. This year he has been forced to idle one-third of his prime farm ground because of the drought. Ted writes in this weeks col...
The worst thing about Californias drought is the suffering it has put on ordinary people. In many places, drinking wells have dried up. The crisis is so severe...
The ports on the West Coast are open for business againand not a moment too soon.
Technically, they never closed, though for months theyve suffered from a...
In the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, they call it values branding: a marketing strategy in which a company tries to instill a feeling of righteousness in the...
As voters in Washington state go to the ballot box on November 5 to consider special labels for foods with genetically-modified ingredients, I have a single tho...
مزارع, وادي سان جواكين, كاليفورنيا, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
تيد Sheely يثير الخس, قطن, طماطم, بصل, فستق, العنب والنبيذ والثوم في مزرعة الأسرة في وادي سان جواكين كاليفورنيا.
المتطوعين تيد كعضو مجلس إدارة لشبكة المزارعين العالمية وهو رئيس لمزارعي الأفق (فستق). وقد وفرت والقيادة لمجلس القطن الوطنية, القطن إنكوربوريتد, كاليفورنيا مكتب الزراعة ومياه منطقة Westlands. Teds long-standing interest and investment in water availability, وقد حصل الجودة واستخدام له اعتراف مؤتمر السياسة المائية كاليفورنيا مع جائزة مبتكرة المحافظة على المياه.
