Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 6/28/22

A new cash crop is flourishing on farmland across North Carolina. But it’s been as welcome in some communities as a wave of invasive horseweed. Solar companies need expanses of open land for their vast arrays of electricity-producing panels, and farmers have become their favorite source. More than two-thirds of large-scale solar farms in North Carolina sit on land that was used for crops or grazing as recently 2008, according to a report published Tuesday by the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association.

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