Some 129,000 acres of solar power production was grazed by more than 113,000 sheep last year, according to a survey commissioned by the American Solar Grazing Association. The South exceeded the ...
Solar grazing, the practice of grazing livestock (typically sheep) on land with solar arrays, is gaining traction in the United States. A survey found that the most common initial purchases for ...
Solar grazing enables dual land use, combining clean energy and livestock farming. Sheep rotational grazing on solar farms improves soil health and pasture quality. Agrivoltaic contracts offer ...
Moving livestock from field to field to lessen the impact of their grazing practices is slowly taking hold, and some proponents say new federal funding coupled with better outreach could get more ...
A solar power boom generated by renewable energy mandates is unfurling in the Chesapeake Bay region. With many solar arrays ending up on farmland, a movement is fast taking hold to make sure that they ...
While modern solar operations & maintenance (O&M) is increasingly driven by technology, compliance and data analytics, the simplest of approaches was on display at this year’s RE+ event in Las Vegas.
In a recent presentation, titled Managed Sheep Grazing Can Improve Soil Quality and Carbon Sequestration at Solar Photovoltaic Sites, researchers from Temple University investigated the effects of ...
A study by USDA’s Economic Research Service finds 40% of cow-calf operations use rotational grazing and less than half of them use intensive rotational grazing. Of the operations reporting using ...