The article discusses the financial challenges faced by American farmers, highlighting the potential of community solar projects as a solution to provide stable income and help keep farmland in agricultural use. By utilizing lower-yield land for solar projects, farmers can retain ownership, maintain flexibility, and pass the land on to future generations. These projects offer a sustainable alternative to selling land for housing or industrial use, ultimately supporting the viability of farming for generations to come. The real risk to farmland is larger economic pressures, and being open-minded about what farming looks like today is necessary to ensure farmland remains farmland in the future.
Distributed solar’s overlooked role: Keeping farmland out of the real estate market
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