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California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Ted SheelyNovember 15, 2019

California is in trouble. We can’t keep the lights on, the fires out, or the air clean. Worst of all, from my perspective as a farmer, is that we’ve faile...

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We Need Common Sense to Understand Risk

Ted SheelyMarch 15, 2019

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. ...

Crop Protection & Disease2 Comments 1

Innovative technology eradicates pink bollworm

Ted SheelyDecember 5, 2018

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...

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We’ll Give The President Time But, This Trade War Has To Stop

Ted SheelyJuly 26, 2018

My father always said that you can’t count on a harvest until it actually comes in—but I’m ready to announce that this year’s crop of pistachios, which we’ll sh...

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Well-Intentioned CA Prop 65 is Getting Out of Hand

Ted SheelyFebruary 18, 2016

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...

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Ted Sheely on the John Batchelor Show

Ted SheelyAugust 7, 2015

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 week’s col...

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California farmers invest water to feed people

Ted SheelyAugust 5, 2015

The worst thing about California’s drought is the suffering it has put on ordinary people. In many places, drinking wells have dried up. The crisis is so severe...

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The Port Slow-Down was an Unnecessary Economic and Humanitarian Disaster

Ted SheelyFebruary 26, 2015

The ports on the West Coast are open for business again—and not a moment too soon. Technically, they never closed, though for months they’ve suffered from a ...

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Chipotle Unnecessarily Tears Down Agriculture to Build a Brand

Ted SheelyFebruary 13, 2014

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 ...

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Just Say No to Washington State Labeling Initiative

Ted SheelyOctober 24, 2013

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...

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Trade

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Technology

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Item of Interest: Let’s trust African scientists in war on hunger

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

We Need Common Sense to Understand Risk

Innovative technology eradicates pink bollworm

We’ll Give The President Time But, This Trade War Has To Stop

Well-Intentioned CA Prop 65 is Getting Out of Hand

Ted Sheely on the John Batchelor Show

California farmers invest water to feed people

The Port Slow-Down was an Unnecessary Economic and Humanitarian Disaster

Chipotle Unnecessarily Tears Down Agriculture to Build a Brand

Just Say No to Washington State Labeling Initiative

Ted Sheely