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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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Governor Jim Pillen is spending the week in Japan and the Philippines, where he's leading a trade mission aimed at strengthening relationships with two of Nebraska’s key export markets. Steve White has more on the trip and what it could mean for the state's agricultural economy.