By Pam Martin Kansas Reflector
Imagine fields of solar arrays with crops growing under them, tilting up and down, depending on plant, solar and producer needs.
Imagine new agricultural industries, solar grazing and solar beekeeping, using grasses and flowering plants under and beside solar farms.
Imagine Kansas adding solar energy to its diverse agriculture and energy portfolio, not only providing economical energy and new agricultural opportunities to our state, but also the country.
It’s time to stop thinking agriculture and solar farms are mutually exclusive and concentrate on how they work together. Agriculture and solar fields are not competing industries. Kansas has more sunny days than the “Sunshine State” of Florida, ranking eighth for sunniest states, according to data analysis website Stacker. Combining agriculture, the state’s largest…
Let’s grow a brighter Kansas future by combining agriculture and solar energy
