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Fear over farmland loss is slowing renewable energy development in rural areas

Federal funding cuts and political resistance are slowing solar growth on U.S. farmland, where 83% of new solar projects are projected to be built, analysts say.

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Jim West // UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images   When Chad Raines took over his family’s Texas cotton farm in 2008, he thought the going would be easy. That’s because their first year was relatively profitable — but the success was short-lived. “The next 11 years was just loss after loss after loss,” Raines said in a Daily Yonder interview. “We just kept digging our hole deeper.” Raines soon began to question whether he should continu…

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Canary Media broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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