Farm Progress

Young farmer bets his future on America’s great farmland transfer

First-generation farmer Conner Watts aims to expand in the future by buying or leasing older farmers’ land. In the meantime, ...
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More farmers are turning to solar power. Some are keeping the land in agriculture at the same time

If they notice the rows of solar panels overhead, the 75 lambs and ewes don’t show it. They’re too busy chowing down. “They ...

Farmers in Vermont expected a sheep to have twins — she ended up having rare sextuplets

UNDERHILL, Vt. — Anne O’Connor just kept counting sheep, and it made her anything but sleepy. A sheep owned by O’Connor, who runs Clover & Bee Farm in Underhill, Vermont, with her husband, Gunnar, ...
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Dominion Energy partners with local farmer to add sheep to solar farm

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Some four-legged friends are taking over solar farms in Pittsylvania County as part of Dominion Energy’s efforts to find agricultural uses for its solar farms. Local ...
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Metro-east solar company uses farmers instead of mowers to do their lamb-scaping

To keep solar farms from getting overrun with weeds, energy companies like Pivot Energy have been trading in traditional lawnmowers for an unconventional means: sheep. The field of agrivoltaics has ...