Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation

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   / Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation #632  
How do you have time? I thought were a professional TBN poster!

Simple. I have a I-phone and an I-pad!
They go with me to work silly!
 
   / Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation #633  
Ah, you had me until the last sentence.
“In the end, the utility companies are going to make the investment choices regardless of what we think“

Nope.

They are going to make investment choices based on where the money is

Trillions given to them in taxpayer funded subsidies for green energy are going to make them go to green energy.
When you look under the covers, ALL public utilities and energy industries receive or have received subsidies.
 
   / Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation #634  
When you look under the covers, ALL public utilities and energy industries receive or have received subsidies.

Yes, but NOTHING like these new green energy subsidies.
These are being funded by taxpayers on emotion.
 
   / Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation #635  
I hope so, too.

One thing about farming many of you may not realize is that farming is very LOCAL.
What works in one area, doesn’t work in another.
In West Texas, where the wind blows strong and the lands tend to be flat, windmills make sense.

But what would I know, I’m just a farmer.
Thank you for farming. Maybe things have changed as far as profit goes in farming so I may be out of touch. But dry farming 5000 acres of soybeans at $5.00 a bushel and averaging on good years 35 bushels to the acre I can say having something like the windmills hedging our bets would have been very welcome! We had some very tough years like a lot of farmers in our day. In 1985 78 farmers folded in the county where we farmed. It was not that big of a county either.

We had to break the ground, plant 8 rows at a time, cultivate the rows to keep the weeds down so way more trips across every acre than is done today.

But I suspect it is not much different with the rise in operating cost. Most of the land in Noxubee county today is planted to pines or they put in catfish ponds. The landscape there today is completely different and for me it is quite sad.

So I will never judge a farmer for finding a way to survive and continue to feed this great nation.
 
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   / Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation #639  
So you now have to pay $200,00 taxes? How is that a plus?
The solar farm is now contributing $200K in taxes to the locale VS the only $25K that agriculture did. The solar farm generates 8 times the tax revenue for the local community as the farm did. That's a good thing.
 
   / Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation #640  
IMO...Hay growers / producers are farmers like clam diggers are fishermen...!
You know what they say about opinions.
Stay in your lane of expertise, if there is one

LMAO
 
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