Daily Yonder

AUGUST 13, 2024

Spread across more than 1,900 acres, the 180 MW Madison Fields project will be one of North America’s largest test grounds for research into agrivoltaics — essentially farming between the rows on photovoltaic solar projects. But raising them is “hard to do on 1,000 acres.” Moser plans to work with other crops, too.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These days, the flax grown for linen is an industrial crop. It spans hundreds of thousands of acres in Europe and Asia. Her research explores where flax can be incorporated most effectively into existing crop systems. Pockets of linen production persisted for a while, but by the middle of the 20th century, even those were gone.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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