Solar Power More Lucrative Than Crops at Some US Farms

Renewable Energy World: For more than a century, Dawson Singletary’s family has grown tobacco, peanuts and cotton on a 530-acre farm amid the coastal flatlands of North Carolina. Now he’s making money from a different crop: solar panels.

Singletary has leased 34 acres of his Bladen County farm to Strata Solar LLC for a 7-MW array, part of a growing wave of solar deals that are transforming U.S. farmland and boosting income for farmers.

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