Some Farms Harvest Solar Energy

Many solar, wind and other clean energy developers are looking to farmland as a possibility for expansion.

The companies often need clear, flat land in order to harvest the renewable resources of sun and wind.

Dawson Singletary, a peanut, cotton and tobacco farmer in North Carolina leased 34 acres to Strata Solar for a seven-megawatt array, land that Singletary said they could not have made any money from.

According to some estimates, solar companies are offering $300-700 per acres to rent the space.