Comment by defrost

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.