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Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves To Be A Bumper Crop For Agrivoltaic Land Use
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It's a dodge since the farm mentioned is historic farmland. They aren't allowed to stop farming and just put up solar.
From: Original NPR story
If anything it seems like a clever way around zoning. Reading between the lines it seems they view the crops as kind of a bonus, not half the point like the original article makes it seem.
You've got a really bizarre view of this, like you're really looking for an angle to discredit it.
Like, if your primary business is solar, and as a profitable side project you also produce food, what's the actual issue there?
Sorry if I came out like I'm trying to discredit the idea, rather I was just trying to put more information out there - the linked article is fairly light on details.
There isn't one. But it's somewhat concerning that it was more viable for the owner to become a power plant than to run their farm as a farm.
That's thanks to food monopolies driving the prices farmers get down to barely sustainable levels