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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. Other questions include finding optimal grazing rates of sheep per acre, as well as other logistics.

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Can a Farm Generate Solar Power and Blueberries at Once?

Daily Yonder

Sweetland opted for a new four-wheeler instead of a tractor, for example, and most work on the bushes is done by hand. At the end of the day, it’s not economical for a blueberry farmer to do dual-use at the moment because of the shading and all of these logistics,” Calderwood said. Still, there were bright spots among the findings.

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Nighttime Harvests Protect Farmworkers From Extreme Heat, but Bring Other Risks

Civil Eats

We’ve fabricated light poles on all of our fruit trailers and tractors that can illuminate four rows of vines each,” he says, “and then every crew member wears a headlamp.” That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules. Heat illness is a serious concern.

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As Extreme Heat Blasts Farms, More Harvests Are Taking Place in the Dark

Daily Yonder

We’ve fabricated light poles on all of our fruit trailers and tractors that can illuminate four rows of vines each,” he says, “and then every crew member wears a headlamp.” That’s even more true for farmworkers, who often earn little, live in rural areas and already have irregular schedules. Heat illness is a serious concern.

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Hunger Doesn’t Take a Summer Break. Neither Do School Food Professionals.

Civil Eats

In addition to authorizing a program that would put extra funds into low-income parents’ pockets for summer groceries, the lawmakers changed a longstanding provision that required schools to serve summer meals communally, eliminating the requirement for rural areas. We’re 100 percent rural, so we’re going everywhere,” she said.

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After Hurricane Helene, Local Farmers and Chefs Pivot to Disaster Relief

Civil Eats

But as the company’s co-founders made calls to farming contacts beyond their home of Forest City, about 60 miles southeast of Asheville, Beam and Green learned that potable water was much harder to come by elsewhere in the region, especially in rural areas with challenging logistics.

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