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There is an assumption by many that farming and solar arrays are exclusive of each other. Many farms have found that not to be true if you design the facilities to some of the newer design criteria. In one instance the arrays are raised high enough for crops to grow underneath or to be spaced far enough apart to allow farming in between the rows of solar arrays. In some instances, the farm water usage drops because the arrays shade the crops to some extent.
If Boone County is trying to maintain farming in its community, it has to allow farmers to have additional sources of revenue otherwise farmers may be forced to sell to developers to be financially viable. Preventing farmers from being able to have land leased for solar farms may actually hasten the loss of farm fields and a ‘way of life’.
For those not wanting solar farms near them, this may be a NIMBY issue that does not financially impact them.
This is not an acceptance of the tactics used by the solar farm companies but a comment on a moratorium of solar and wind farms.
Boone County planners are some of the most dull and backwards people in the state.
Solar and farming are fantastically compatible – planting in and around solar actually increases the yield of both the planting and the electrical output.
The fact that these planners even consider letting “Facebook groups” full of absurd misinformation dictate the actual policies is downright horrifying.
The county plows straight through good farmland to build net-negative single family sprawl all day every day, but they don’t want independent farmers to do what’s best on their own land so that we actually get the food and energy we need.
Something that put this into perspective for me, is farmer considering to convert land to solar production said, rather than harvest sunshine for only 6 months a year, we are now harvesting sunshine 12 months a year.
Seems like a no-brainer.
If either project embraces what is referred to as AgriVoltaics, both the developer and farmer win. Agrivoltaics give a farmer two revenue streams and increase the value of the land by 60% over either solar or farming.
Solar does not damage any land it is placed upon.
Sounds like a few good ‘ole boy commissioners hard at not working.