Farmers might want to swap tobacco plants for solar panels
Story Date: 2/9/2018

  Source: Avery Thompson, POPULAR MECHANICS, 2/6/18


The southern United States is a vast expanse of fields and undeveloped land, much of of which has been used for growing tobacco for hundreds of years. Tobacco is a terrific cash crop, and tobacco farmers make lots of money selling it but a new analysis from Michigan Tech finds that these farmers could make even more money harvesting sunlight.

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