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southern MN | Grass and other green plants need sunlight to grow.
Solar panels harvest sunlight.
I’d be surprised if 400 acres of solar panels produce more feed than 400 acres of proper pasture very often.
At certain times of the year I can see a small patch of certain grass types produce better with the shade in certain rainfall/ temperature conditions.
Year long total acres, I just don’t see it?
They appear to have picked a very hot and arid sample. Here most pastures are in standing water and yesterday’s highs were in the low 70s. Humidifies are so high it’s uncomfortable even at the moderate temps. We do not need more humidity nor lower temps.
In my area, the panels are being installed on good high productive row crop land, and most panels I see are too low to allow pasturing of even sheep under.
So if they want to apply that info to certain small regional areas then it’s nice, good to know.
If they want to tell the American public that solar panels are wonderful everywhere and increase ag production everywhere across the country so they should be installed covering every farm in the country, then they are lying.
We seem to be living in a country of only one extreme or another, and the way that is written it seems to be an influencer, not an informative ‘helps here, won’t help there’ piece.
We hear the influencers telling the American public ethanol is bad it takes away food. The truth is ethanol is very flexible at producing food or fuel as needed; ethanol produces feed byproduct as well as easily shift corn produced between feed or ethanol production if needed.
This article appears to influence that solar panels always produce more food, when any one with any sense and experience and observation would realize that only applies to a very small percent of solar installations. Most areas the panels remove and destroy any possible food production for decades, if not forever.
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Study on grass conditions under solar panels
