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I am not talking about building a shade for the animals to stay. Every dairy farm I have seen have a barn for the cows to come and go as they want. Most have additional pole barns as needed. Funny thing is, I have been cold, wet, freezing my ass off and the cows are happy following me around.
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Putting solar on the barns would be GREAT.
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I am talking about taking a field which was growing corn and beans last year and now it is growing solar.
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And if after we make shade over all the parking lots and on top of buildings like parking garages where they can without much effort. (Note I am not saying you need to put it on your house, but if you have a driveway that isn't used for basketball....) Then take to the hills which are too steep for growing plants and areas with poor soil..... Then to the good farm fields if they are more valuable than using them for farming.
Comment by FlashFiringAI at 12/01/2025 at 17:21 UTC
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so I live next to cow pastures and no, they don't always have a barn on the location they're grazing. They often come hang out under my pecan trees that have branches over the fence during the hottest days. Many farmers rotate their cattle through different pastures and not all of those pastures will have barns.
The debate about taking fields growing corn or beans being converted to solar is a bit more complex. If the farmer is struggling to get good returns on that land for corn or beans it may be worth allowing a company to turn it into a solar farm instead. If they're getting good returns on the crops there would be no reason to switch to solar.
But I do think that absolutely none of this should be preventing people from putting solar on their roofs, on car parks, or other areas. I would absolutely do it on my house if I didn't have trees covering everything already.