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Fight Grows Over Converting Farmland to Solar Fields

By Marc Heller

A fight to stop the conversion of farmland to solar energy production is bumping into efforts to make farming and energy production work together.

The emerging practice of “agrovoltaics,” or using land both for solar energy and food production, could be a casualty of a conflict that’s playing out among policymakers, industry groups and lawmakers as the 2024 farm bill takes shape.

The pressure is almost certain to grow.

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We are harvesting first Crop Hay Silage today and trying to keep our old equipment running! This is the second day of chopping first crop. We faced a few break downs today stick around to find out if we can get the old equipment up and running again. Also make sure to go back to our other videos from this hay season. Thank you all for watching!