silence7@slrpnk.net to Green Energy@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 months agoThe Battle Over Solar on Farmland | Agrivoltaics is either a green revolution or a poison pill for good land. Depends which farmers you ask.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down13
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minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·6 months agoA significant number of crops can handle up to 30% shading and farms can install solar on frames above the crops. A few plants even do better with some shade (due to heat stress) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-022-00783-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00121-w https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/03/made-shade-growing-crops-solar-farms-yields-efficiency
A significant number of crops can handle up to 30% shading and farms can install solar on frames above the crops. A few plants even do better with some shade (due to heat stress)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-022-00783-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00121-w
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/03/made-shade-growing-crops-solar-farms-yields-efficiency