Building solar installations on farmland has become a popular practice in the U.S. and, more recently, in the UK as well, as in other parts of Europe. Solar developers can offer farmers more money to lease their land for solar than they would make from farming it, which has motivated many to accept such deals. Yet concern about this trend has been growing as well, since farmland is used to literally produce food, and replacing food production with electricity production has sparked concerns about food security.
