Ted Sheely
Leadership Emeritus · GFN Leadership Emeritus
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About
Ted raises lettuce, cotton, tomatoes, onions, pistachios, wine grapes and garlic on a family farm. Chairman of Horizon Growers (pistachios). Long-standing interest and investment in water availability and quality. Received Innovative Water Conservation Award.
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Articles by Ted Sheely (35)
January 30, 2025
Good Water Management is One Way to Fight Food Inflation
First the sun turned red. Then it vanished in the smoke from the fires on the coast. I was driving in rural California, heading toward my farm in the …
Read article →May 25, 2023
Water Policies Focused on the Future are Needed Today
The public policy of California is to flush away our water, as if the snow in our mountains and the runoff in our rivers were nothing more than the ex…
Read article →January 13, 2022
Sheely Named Cotton Achievement Award Recipient
GFN Board member Ted Sheely from California is honored for his service by the Cotton Grower as the 2021 Cotton Grower Cotton Achievement Award recipie…
Read article →April 22, 2021
Agroecology as a Choice, Not Coercion
Meet the world's new farming buzzword: "agroecology." I'd try to define it, but "agroecology" is one of those slippery terms whose meaning shifts depe…
Read article →November 15, 2019
California Can Keep the Water Flowing
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'v…
Read article →March 15, 2019
We Need Common Sense to Understand Risk
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 consideri…
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- Innovative technology eradicates pink bollwormDecember 5, 2018
- We’ll Give The President Time But, This Trade War Has To StopJuly 26, 2018
- Well-Intentioned CA Prop 65 is Getting Out of HandFebruary 18, 2016
- Ted Sheely on the John Batchelor ShowAugust 7, 2015
- California farmers invest water to feed peopleAugust 5, 2015
- The Port Slow-Down was an Unnecessary Economic and Humanitarian DisasterFebruary 26, 2015
- Chipotle Unnecessarily Tears Down Agriculture to Build a BrandFebruary 13, 2014
- Just Say No to Washington State Labeling InitiativeOctober 24, 2013
- No Labeling Needed When Consumers Know the Whole TruthMarch 28, 2013
- Salmon-Lovers Unite: Help Science Trump PoliticsJanuary 10, 2013
- Standing Up to the True Mission of the “Just Label It” CrowdDecember 13, 2012
- Truth Beats False Food PoliticsNovember 15, 2012
- You Have the Right to Know What California Prop 37 Really Does!October 4, 2012
- A Costly California Food Labeling ProposalJuly 12, 2012
- Fish Tales in WashingtonSeptember 22, 2011
- A Call For Common Sense Biotech Crop RegulationAugust 11, 2011
- Labeling A Rally For What It IsMarch 31, 2011
- Strangulation By RegulationOctober 7, 2010
- A Legislative DroughtJuly 24, 2009
- How Does Your Garden Grow?April 10, 2009
- Trading Time With CubaMarch 1, 2008
- Globalization Case StudyJanuary 11, 2008
- Keeping Food SafeJanuary 12, 2007
- Eatin’ Safely in the JungleSeptember 29, 2006
- Scary GrapesOctober 28, 2005
- The Future of Agriculture is NowAugust 19, 2005
- CAFTA Support Adds UpMay 19, 2005
- Food Not PoliticsOctober 22, 2004
- Measure H and the War Against BiotechFebruary 20, 2004
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