Solar proposal splits farmers, clean energy fans

Bob Bishop, a 61-year-old farmer living in dairy country in southwestern Wisconsin, plans to soon stop raising dairy cows because the industry is in trouble.

In 2018, Wisconsin lost 638 dairy farms because of falling milk prices. And the Bishops, who farm in Iowa County, still carry debt from when hog prices tanked in the 1990s.

Yet a rare opportunity has come the Bishops’ way. For at least a generation, the family would receive double or more the market rental rate on about 650 acres to be used for a giant solar power project. The Badger Hollow Solar Farm would be the largest such project in the Midwest....

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Ken Notes: I prefer solar over something other than land, but the size of this project requires far more that buildings and infrastructure provide. I want the discussion to continue because this project has at least two sides....