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Precluding solar on food crop land raises the question of what is food crop land? As a Midwesterner, much agricultural land is not food crop land (at least not directly so). Is growing crops for fuel, or for inputs to other processes, food crop? Because the crop can change year to year. Soybeans ...

Regarding the land use concerns, the integration of habitat-friendly or pollinator ground cover into solar farms has been done quite successfully in a number of cases. Analyses completed by the National Renewable Energy Lab, Argonne National Lab, and a number of research universities shows that solar ...