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Literally nobody proposes "sacrificing" farmland.
by angiosperm 3y ago
Literally nobody proposes "sacrificing" farmland.
- jubjubbird 3y agoI'm looking at a legal agreement on my desk to lease 120 acres of productive eastern Nebraska farmland to build a commercial scale solar project. The land would be taken out of production ("sacrificed") for the 50 year lease, with payments about twice what the land leases for for agriculture (soybeans).
- sandworm101 3y agoIt is very common. Farming is hard, margins slim at best. And farmers are given great leeway in how they may make money from land. Regulation is lax. Many fields have been turned from the production of food to the production of electricity, while countless factory rooftops sit covered only in tar and asphalt.