{"id":11188,"date":"2016-07-11T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=11188"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:48:50","slug":"let-there-be-water-secretary-ross-appears-on-national-podcast-from-the-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/07\/11\/let-there-be-water-secretary-ross-appears-on-national-podcast-from-the-huffington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Let There Be Water &#8211; Secretary Ross appears on national podcast &#8211; from the Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LTBW_podcast_1400x1400-FINAL-450x450.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11189\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LTBW_podcast_1400x1400-FINAL-450x450-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Let there be water podcast poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LTBW_podcast_1400x1400-FINAL-450x450-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LTBW_podcast_1400x1400-FINAL-450x450-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/LTBW_podcast_1400x1400-FINAL-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Seth M. Siegel<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>Among Nebraska\u2019s best farm exports may be one of the country\u2019s most important agriculture officials, California\u2019s Secretary of Food and Agriculture <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agsecross\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:0}}\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karen Ross<\/a>. Raised on a Nebraska farm, Ross knows her way around fields and barns, but has spent much of her adult life focused on farm policy, including stints working for a US Senator and the current US Secretary of Agriculture before accepting her current post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>With water such an essential part of every farmer\u2019s life and well-being, and with water wars being waged in drought-ravaged California, calm, even-handed Ross is in a perfect place to ensure that farmers get what they need today while water resources are marshalled and preserved for the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>I first met Ross at an all-day seminar earlier this year hosted by former Secretary of State George Shultz at the Hoover Institution on Stanford University\u2019s campus. The seminar was focused on Israeli solutions to the California water crisis. Ross and I were both presenters. More recently, I invited her to be a guest on my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethmsiegel.com\/podcast\/\" target=\"_hplink\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:1}}\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Let There Be Water Podcast<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/seth-m-siegel\/the-relationship-between-_8_b_10775672.html\">Link to full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethmsiegel.com\/podcast\/\">Link to podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Seth M. Siegel Among Nebraska\u2019s best farm exports may be one of the country\u2019s most important agriculture officials, California\u2019s Secretary of Food and Agriculture Karen Ross. 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