U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack Wednesday announced that USDA is awarding $266 million in loans and grants to agriculture producers and rural small businesses to make investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements that will lower their energy costs, generate new income and strengthen the resilience of their operation.
Some farmers describe it as the hardest decision they’ve ever made: Lease to solar companies for a life-changing payout or risk the wrath of neighbors and the productivity of their farmland to bear future crops.
Nine largescale solar projects are either operational, under construction or planned for four counties within an hour’s drive of Cincinnati in Clermont, Clinton, Highland, and Brown counties.
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