In Georgia, sheep on a solar farm is not a baaad idea

In Georgia, sheep on a solar farm is not a baaad idea

On a vast property in Lee County, in the heart of southwest Georgia, Tyler Huber raises sheep.  As the flock grazes, the sheep need somewhere to take a break from the Georgia sun. “It is incredibly hot, the sun is just unavoidable, and the fact that they’ve got shade every fifteen feet out here — it’s just the ideal environment, to have shade so close,” he said on a recent hot day. Sheep rely on solar panels for shade and shelter at the DeSoto S…

Mammoth Solar pushes back against opposition with ‘agrivoltaics’ | City-County Observer

By Olivia O’Neal Mammoth North Solar sits on 4,500 acres in Starke County in Northwest Indiana. On this spot alone, 500 sheep graze beneath the panels. Opposition against solar farms can be loud in the usually quiet, rural outskirts of Indiana.  White signs with variations of the words “Stop Solar” are often posted in front of soybean and corn fields, nailed to telephone poles and stationed in the front yards of the state’s many quaint farm