alternative energy

The American Farm Bureau Federation recently went to Congress and told lawmakers that U.S. farmers need reliable, affordable energy to transport crops and livestock, but electric vehicles are not reliable.  AFBF’s Linda Pryor told the House Energy and Climate subcommittee that fuel prices have soared 30% since 2021, while prices for many commodities have fallen.  But Pryor sai...

“The biggest investment in rural electrification since the mid 1930s.”  That's how President Biden and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are describing a newly announced $7 billion investment in rural clean energy projects in nearly two dozen states.   “To bring th...

Adoption of electric vehicles has been slower in rural areas than in urban ones, but a "rideshare" program in Oregon is allowing farmers to try out electric tractors.  The program is a partnership between a number of organizations and lets farmers test out electric tractors on their farms for free for several months if needed.  Bridget...

It’s a trend you see across the Pacific Northwest; farm acres being converted into alternative energy projects, either wind or solar farms. But one Washington lawmaker says more questions need to be asked before additional production acres are lost. ...

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 an