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Photovoltaic panels and helping farmers

New research including Michigan State University researchers reveals how solar panels are helping farmers reduce costs, conserve water and stabilize their operations — and, in some cases, helping them earn up to 25 times more per acre than traditional crops. . Agrivoltaics is defined as agriculture, such as crop production, livestock grazing, and pollinator habitat, located underneath solar panels and/or between rows of solar panels. Solar energy offers farmers the opportunity to harvest the sun twice—the same reason land is good for farming (flat, open. . Agrivoltaic projects bring together farms and solar energy production. [PDF Version]