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How wind and solar power helps keep America’s farms alive

  • Written by Paul Mwebaze, Research Economist at the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
How wind and solar power helps keep America’s farms aliveAbout 60% of Iowa's power comes from wind. Farmers can earn extra cash by leasing small sections of farms for power production.Bill Clark/Getty Images

Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines spinning above fields and solar panels shining...

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