914: The Real Reason Farmers Are Turning to Solar | Rebekah Pierce
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Developer Community Engagement Mistakes
Rebekah urges tailored community outreach and early farmer partnerships to bridge developer-town divides.
Most conversations about agrivoltaics stay at the surface.
Rebekah Pierce didn’t set out to become a voice for solar. She was trying to solve a much simpler problem:
How do you make a small farm financially viable… without giving it up?
What followed was a shift — from seeing solar as a “necessary evil” to recognizing it as a tool that might fundamentally reshape how farms survive.
In this conversation, we unpack what’s actually happening on the ground:
🔹 What exactly is the business of solar grazing
🔹 Where the economics work — and where they don’t
🔹 Why “prime farmland” is often misunderstood
🔹 The gap between developer intent and rural reality
🔹 What breaks when you try to scale this model
This is less about sheep under panels…
…and more about what new revenue models might actually keep farms alive.
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🎧 Guest: Rebekah Pierce
Author of Agri-Energy: Growing Power, Growing Food
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If you’re curious about agrivoltaics, this is a perspective you don’t usually hear.
Hit play to hear why Rebekah Pierce believes agrivoltaics is not a side strategy. It is a glimpse of what farming could become.
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