I am sure you have noticed the proliferation of large solar panels on agricultural land – often what looks like really good agricultural land too. I was musing over this recently when I saw a large expanse of land covered at a low level with panels. It was not possible to grow a crop underneath, barely possible to graze animals.

So, what has caused this to happen – clearly the incentive for farmers makes this worthwhile; grants, subsidy, generation refund. It seems the incentives are greater than for growing crops. One of the massive areas I noted was in prime asparagus growing country; and yet we are happy to import asparagus from Peru and Mexico – the

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