Growing high-value crops under solar panels

Cut the Crop! by Foundation for Arable Research (NZ)

Aug 15, 202623:10Science & Medicine

A new solar farm at Lincoln University aims to show how productive land can be optimised to grow high-value crops while generating commercial-scale solar energy. In this episode of Cut the Crop, Lincoln lecturer in arabl...

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