{"id":19010,"date":"2020-02-29T16:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=19010"},"modified":"2020-02-29T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T21:33:11","slug":"solar-power-provides-options-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/02\/solar-power-provides-options-for-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power provides options for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In recent years, more agricultural producers have looked into solar arrays, either to power their own farms or as an alternate source of income that they can use to help stabilize their farm balance sheets. Here are a few stories I have seen recently related to solar power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Grist<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food\/cash-strapped-farms-are-growing-a-new-crop-solar-panels\/?fbclid=IwAR0K1psg0pXx-OeUPLMt8dwnay5-zmstMX6qpA2NeNKUk45sxu1p3jhP2Qw\">Cash-strapped Farms are Growing A New Crop: Solar Panels<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Farm Progress<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/management\/farm-solar-leases-guides-outline-what-you-need-know?NL=SEFP-01&amp;Issue=SEFP-01_20200225_SEFP-01_192&amp;sfvc4enews=42&amp;cl=article_2_b&amp;utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=46939&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=3ea78549719244bba6a741cb1fb76c78\">On-farm solar leases: Guides outline what you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Inside Climate News<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/22022020\/solar-finland-nordic-renewables-sanna-marin-climate-targets-turku?fbclid=IwAR2WIlCBMrl7uSsN9v2vWdz4lIlA3UZVR9RJHln0qpodRFZ25A4FzlnEWmo\">Solar Power Just Miles from the Arctic Circle? In Icy Nordic Climes, It&#8217;s Become the Norm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/Solar-Hazlehurst.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/Solar-Hazlehurst.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/Solar-Hazlehurst-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/Solar-Hazlehurst-246x138.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Source: Macon Telegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, more agricultural producers have looked into solar arrays, either to power their own farms or as an alternate source of income that they can use to help stabilize their farm balance sheets. Here are a few stories I have seen recently related to solar power. Grist: Cash-strapped Farms are Growing A New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19011,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010\/revisions\/19011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}