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Researchers explore how to use same farmland for solar power and crops

Solar farms generate resistance from neighbors worried about changing the rural, agricultural landscape. So a team of researches in Iowa is working on a way to grow food and harvest solar power on the same acreage.

KCUR’s Frank Morris reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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