Sunlit pastures offer dual purposes

Sunlit pastures offer dual purposes

University of Minnesota agrivoltaics research may yield dual harvests of food and energy. Adam Kronback has been looking for ways to innovate since coming back to his fourth-generation family farm in Lamberton after eight years working as a food scientist. He likes the idea of putting solar panels on a piece of his land. “But I see too many solar panels go up for energy and the land left fallow instead of for growing food,” he says. “Can’t the l…