Comment by bell-cot
4 months ago
Point. I was mostly speaking to the parts of America which are hostile to solar farms.
OTOH, it sounds like your experience is with solar/farming dual-use. Vs. America seems inclined to a "buy the land, kick off the farmers, put up the panels, and post the No Humans Allowed signs" monoculture model. Which can be all to easy to scale up & do, from a Wall Street point of view.
As stated, a viewpoint unique to your experience in central North America and not one universal to farming communities.
Wall Street isn't exactly the brightest when it comes to optimal approaches.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-graz...
( FWiW the counter arguments raised in anticipation in that three plus year old article didn't come to fruition in the time since across many sites - we do pay attention to water tables here in Australia following disastrous effects of over clearing for 80 years that ended some 50 years past )
The largest current complaint hereabouts in the farming community is the looming onset of a mega garbage dump for the nearest city. It's promised to be well sealed and well maintained, but local people are upset by the intrusion of convoys of garbage from the city - more noise and traffic than a few thousand hectares of solar panels.