…together with the Kern County Farm Bureau to hold a free workshop July 15 in Bakersfield. Senior Customer Relationship Manager Brenda Baldwin says they will have solar companies at the…
USDA Announces Effort to Cut Energy Costs for Farmers, Ranchers, Rural Small Businesses
…has doubled in the last five years. More than 57,000 farms reported using a renewable energy system in 2012, while 23,451 operations reported doing so in 2007. Solar panels accounted…
9 California Counties Make Top 10 List for Ag Sales in the U.S.
…renewable energy producing systems in agriculture. Solar is the most common renewable energy producing system on farms and ranches in The Golden State. The average age of the California farmer…
Statement from Ag Sec. Vilsack on Updated 2012 Census of Agriculture Data
…more than double the 23,451 operations that reported the same in 2007. Solar panels accounted for 63% of renewable energy producing systems on farms, with 36,331 farms reporting their use….
AgNeTVideo: Using Solar on Dairy Farms
Dylan Dupre, vice president of sales at SPG Solar, discusses the use of solar energy on dairy farms….
Monteiro Lakeside Dairy – Innovation in Progress
…solar system to help support the farm that includes an 80-cow milking rotary system and three 7,000-gallon The Lakeside Dairy rotary milking parlor storage tanks. The solar system was a…
AgNeTVideo: CFBF President on Energy Production / Delta Smelt
California Farm Bureau President Paul Wenger speaks of the differences between solar, natural gas, and hydro-electric energy production. President Wenger also discusses the Delta smelt and salmon issues in California….
Desalination, Water Purification Research Projects Funded
…Facility last year. A larger scale solar still will be constructed to help further research already conducted and identify feasibility of the solar still to treat brackish groundwater in small…
AgNeTVideo: Trefethen Solar Project
…in the conversion to solar will be paid back with the savings from not having an electric bill. “Our solar arrays, like a couple other aspects of our sustainability program,…
Using Solar Energy to Power Winery
In another big step toward complete sustainability, a Napa Valley winery has gone 100 percent solar. Sabrina Hill has the story. Click to open or download audio report. Trefethen Family…
A Dairy Goes Solar
Watch this video featuring Ben Curti discussing his dairy and solar….
U.S. EPA Honors Dixon Ridge Farms
…energy offsets the farm’s electricity and propane needs. The farm also has 3,500 square feet of solar panels installed on rooftops, with an expansion planned. The farm practices low and…