Don't know about the US, but where I live farmland is restrictively zoned to preserve its agricultural use. You can't just turn prime cropland into a (normal) solar power plant, but perhaps you can get away with this dual use trick.

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alex43578 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder how little farming you’d have to do if this did count. Does letting a few sheep walk around a solar farm count? Growing a few strawberry plants? If the economics from elsewhere in thread are accurate, the farming feels like it would add 0 value other than the regulatory dodge, and would therefore be minimized.

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wtch98 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Don't know about the US, but where I live farmland is restrictively zoned to preserve its agricultural use

So central land use planning? Rural America won't be that Commumist -- not even by law, just look at the way it votes.

Freedom means a farmer can do whatever they want with their land

	▲	brainwad 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Freedom-loving, R-voting America is full of restrictive zoning. I don't think it's necessarily the contradiction you make it out to be. Especially if, like here, the government doesn't tell you what or how to farm, only that farmland is for farming.