Food and farms

Solar

This farmer was skeptical about solar — until he began grazing sheep

Illinois farmer Trent Gerlach had misgivings about solar panels taking up cropland, but he saw a chance to try agrivoltaics, a practice catching on around the US.

By Kari Lydersen  . 

A herd of sheep at Acciona's High Point Solar Farm in northern Illinois. (Acciona)

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