Precious farmland under solar threat


A drone view shows solar panels as they stand on Duttlinger’s farmland that he leased to Dunns Bridge Solar LLC in Wheatfield, Indiana. — Reuters

DAVE Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen.

About 180ha of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar LLC, for one of the largest solar developments in the Midwest.

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