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Leaving the door wide open for a solar invasion

US solar capacity is growing. The tradeoff: valuable farmland.

Solar energy companies are leasing thousands of acres of land from Midwestern farmers, which can hinder crop-growing or grazing livestock there. It’s a tradeoff between expanding renewables and giving up future yields.

Solar Puts America's Most Productive Farmland at Risk

As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk

Dave Duttlinger s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his.

As solar capacity grows, some of most productive US farmland is at risk

A renewable energy boom risks damaging some of richest soils in key farming states