How many jobs are dependent on agriculture
​in the local community? 

Even if you don’t work in agriculture directly, your job may still be connected,
​or even reliant, upon it.  Wait, what?  How many jobs are reliant on agriculture? Learn more here
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Agriculture and related industries provide 10.3% jobs in U.S.

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If the farmer can not afford to rent the remaining land not taken by industrial scale solar or goes out of business, what jobs will be impacted, just in the local community?  
  • ​Hired hands
  • Fuel oil companies
  • Milk processing plants
    • ​​milk transportation
  • Meat processing plants
  • Co-ops
  • Seed salesman
  • Fertilizer salesmen
  • Equipment dealer
  • Ethanol plants
  • Feed mills
  • Repair shops
  • Constructions contractors 
  • Banks
  • Clothing stores
  • Insurance
​With agriculture being the bread and butter of our local economy, solar will not be good for our local businesses and job growth.

Farmland and the future

  • There’s a trickle down effect for farmers, especially those who lease land.  If other land owners decide solar is a better financial option for their land, farmers who are leasing will have less options and more competition for leasing land.  
  • If no farming has been done on this land for 20 to 40 years, will the next generation who owns it even be interested in farming since they did not grow up around it?  And, there is no guarantee the land won't get sold off after the solar is decommissioned.  And if it is sold, will the land be sold as commercial since it has been rezoned?  
  • If the solar infrastructure has already been installed, what is to stop another solar company from expanding to near by properties for future development taking up more farm ground?  
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