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Solar Use on US Farms Jumps 30% in Five Years
Sheep graze underneath solar panels at a farm in Hammond, Minnesota.
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Solar is in on the American farm, while the uptake for wind power is slowing.
Photovoltaic installations increased 30% on farms in the latest US Census of Agriculture released Tuesday. Some 116,758 farms had solar panels in 2022, compared with 90,142 in 2017. Wind turbine installation, meanwhile, grew by only 2.7% during the same period, to 14,511 farms.