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Large-Scale Ohio Research Project to Explore How Solar and Farming Can Co-Exist

Daily Yonder

The answers will help shape best practices for future projects, while addressing some concerns raised in ongoing debates over siting large solar projects in rural farm areas. A recent report from the American Farmland Trust says Ohio could lose more than 518,000 acres of farmland to urban sprawl by 2040.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” Most of my neighbors—the people actually adjacent to me—are corporate entities,” where the farm owner is often absent, and the workers don’t have a say in the equipment. I was literally not able to find a flour mill at my scale, and we’re not tiny,” he said. It’s an evolving system, said Martin.

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