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The Battle Over Solar on Farmland | Agrivoltaics is either a green revolution or a poison pill for good land. Depends which farmers you ask.
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silence7 slrpnk.net silence7@slrpnk.net
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Natanael slrpnk.net Natanael@slrpnk.net
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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

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Big_Boss_77 fedinsfw.app Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app
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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

Not to mention as temperatures continue to climb, more will benefit from the shade because 30% shade will be closer to what the plants consider "normal/ideal"

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