Why choose? Farm both! Especially for grazing, raised photovoltaic allows the photons to be harvested along with allowing goats or cows to graze the landscape.

Why choose? Farm both! Especially for grazing, raised photovoltaic allows the photons to be harvested along with allowing goats or cows to graze the landscape. Crops can also be grown in between rows of solar. This arrangement also mitigates the often destructive effect that large utility scale solar has on the landscape. The landscape degradation is why having generation, and transmission, be as locally contained as possible is the best technical solution. But utilities often fight this, since they make money on large utility scale project, and loose money on building and neighborhood scale generation and distribution. As always, the middle way is the best. Too bad nuance is not longer an allowed perspective...