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May 1, 2026

Solar ranch aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win

  • A Tennessee solar developer is betting that cattle-grazing and solar panels can coexist — and benefit farmers as well as the electric grid.
    • By TAMMY WEBBER and JOSHUA A. BICKEL
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel [enlarge]
    Silicon Ranch has developed a software system that rotates the panels close to horizontal when cattle are grazing, giving them room to roam.

    CHRISTIANA, Tenn. — From a distance, the small solar farm in central Tennessee looks like others that now dot rural America, with row upon row of black panels absorbing the sun's rays to generate electricity.


     
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