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Dairy or beef? We are talking dairy. Beef cattle need different stuff. And I already know the answer, but I want you to type it.
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For beef, we need to look at the cattle on the range and how if the farmer chooses the breed for the climate they do very well without buildings. If in the wrong area for the breed or marginal, then buildings, shade, heat...
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BUT I am really talking about the farm fields not pasture. IF the farmer isn't making it with corns and beans...without subsidies. And they can convert it over to solar and make it without subsidies, then OK. But we are not playing on an even field with no subsidies.
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And everyone arguing with me is missing the point. This time and the last time I posted it.
Why are the airport parking lots not covered with solar?
Why not the areas in the median?
Why not wind turbine in the round about or clover leaf?
These should be FIRST. Why are out politicians pushing for solar farms and not a solar farm at the airport, medians, wind in the clover leaf?
Comment by FlashFiringAI at 12/01/2025 at 18:29 UTC*
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Many airport parking lots are putting in solar panels. But that has a cost to it, it can't happen instantly.
Wind turbines are way too large to just put in the round abouts. There total rotor diameter is often longer than football fields, THEY ARE MASSIVE. you also can't just install these easily, their foundations are very important and probably larger than you realize. Also the location has to actually have the wind for it to be worth the cost. Smaller ones are significantly less efficient and often not worth the costs to install or maintain.
If you think they haven't considered these as options and ruled many of them out for completely logical reasons, then you're not really paying attention.
Edit: The raise both beef and dairy cattle, they rotate depending on the season. Its smaller farms where I live. Their dairy cattle are dry 10 months after birth and have slightly longer time between births due to not being a large commercial production.