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As the capacities at Lost Hills and Tulare rose from 30 million to 50 million pounds within the next few years, Horizon’s ownership again saw the need to expand with the pistachio industry, which in 2014 produced over 500 million pounds of nuts in the western United States. Roughly 99 percent of those nuts are produced in California, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Horizon Nut is a private company with a progressive board of directors says company President Ted Sheely and chairman of the board of directors. Sheely farms a variety of crops on several thousand acres of farmland on the Westlands Water District and along the Kings River, including pistachios, cotton, grains, grapes, onions, tomatoes, garlic and Garbanzo beans.
Sheely also owns a separate company called AzCal Management, which has various farming interests in Arizona and California.
