Farmers are torn over whether to give up agricultural land in favor of solar power, writes Jeff Beach in InForum.com. He covered a panel on rural issues in Redwood Falls, Minn.
“Siting large solar arrays, in particular, has become a hot issue in some greater Minnesota counties.
“’We’re not talking about 10 or 20 acres, we’re talking about 1,000 acres, 2,000,’ [Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner] Petersen said. ‘So we have an issue — should we put that on what we call prime farmland?’”
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“State Rep. Paul Anderson, a Republican who farms near Starbuck, Minnesota, said the ‘scales got tipped’ by government incentives for wind and solar projects.”
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