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COVERING GOOD FOOD GROWING LAND WITH SOLAR PANELS?
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<blockquote data-quote="Veryfruity" data-source="post: 7478279" data-attributes="member: 129080"><p>France.</p><p></p><p>Opposition to our 20ha park came from the agricultural lobby. We had no neighbor or local opposition. All our farm was eligible for solar, but we only chose a block away from others. We explained and listened.</p><p></p><p>Though the land doesn’t look much it is mains irrigated and very well suited to vine and stone fruit production.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]948963[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]948963[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]948964[/ATTACH]</p><p>In our case we argued that putting some of our land into solar panels would enable us to better live with the see saw of fruit production. ( peach production has halved since 2005)</p><p>We also argued that it needn’t be a choice between energy or agriculture, but we could do both.</p><p></p><p>We have two sorts of panels, under the lower panels we can’t do much more than sheep. So we have a shepherd who grazes spring and autumn.</p><p></p><p>The larger tracker panels are 18m spacing to prevent shading one another , here we have planted Mediterranean truffle oaks and from June will be running free range hens. They will be housed in 500s to keep the shed size small , we are planning to sell the eggs farm gate and will make it a selling point that they are in small flocks.</p><p></p><p>The trees will be pruned to 2m.</p><p></p><p>Personally I think an agricultural use should be stipulated, forcing the panel companies to design accordingly. There’s plenty of sheep and hens to go round.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Veryfruity, post: 7478279, member: 129080"] France. Opposition to our 20ha park came from the agricultural lobby. We had no neighbor or local opposition. All our farm was eligible for solar, but we only chose a block away from others. We explained and listened. Though the land doesn’t look much it is mains irrigated and very well suited to vine and stone fruit production. [ATTACH=full]948963[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]948963[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]948964[/ATTACH] In our case we argued that putting some of our land into solar panels would enable us to better live with the see saw of fruit production. ( peach production has halved since 2005) We also argued that it needn’t be a choice between energy or agriculture, but we could do both. We have two sorts of panels, under the lower panels we can’t do much more than sheep. So we have a shepherd who grazes spring and autumn. The larger tracker panels are 18m spacing to prevent shading one another , here we have planted Mediterranean truffle oaks and from June will be running free range hens. They will be housed in 500s to keep the shed size small , we are planning to sell the eggs farm gate and will make it a selling point that they are in small flocks. The trees will be pruned to 2m. Personally I think an agricultural use should be stipulated, forcing the panel companies to design accordingly. There’s plenty of sheep and hens to go round. [/QUOTE]
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