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His solution: grazing sheep under solar panels. In 2012, Scott was one of the first in his field to approach a solar developer with the idea of solar grazing.

Now Hain, along with her business partner, Lewis Fox of Fox Farms in Cortland, are grazing over 200 Katahdin sheep on Nexamp’s solar farms in Newfield and Geneva, making it the first season of ...

Solar grazing is the practice of grazing livestock on the forage in the field where solar arrays are installed. Sheep are generally the best suited species of livestock for this type of grazing.

Sheep farmer Lexie Hain helped form the grassroots American Solar Grazing Association in 2018. “Sheep are the natural fit for solar. It’s creating a shift,” Hain said.

Lines of sheep traversing summer grazing fields. Photo by Lior Patel The patterns of movement as seen from above are extraordinary. Grazing sheep move in beautiful patterns. Photo by Lior Patel Over ...

A green solution to the problem was offered by an Ohio company, New Slate Land Management. The owners promote the ancient method of grazing sheep to maintain fields around modern sources of energy.

Make that a solar farm, where pigs and sheep are learning to co-exist peacefully (mostly), while grazing fields of fescue and wildflower beneath 30 acres of 18,000 solar panels in Lansing, north ...

Up to 200 sheep will be grazing at Oberlin College’s 2.7 megawatt (MW) solar farm this summer, ending the need for mowing – and creating a lot of other wins as well.

NAPA, Calif. -- The future of agriculture may hinge on the grazing of a few furry friends. "Sheep grazing, which is such a beautiful sight to see, is a little bit of a newer practice for most ...

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Hundreds of sheep are grazing their way through a big project in the North Valley. The City of Merced is counting on 900 sheep to clear weeds at the wastewater treatment ...