Farmers can now produce more of their own energy than ever – but will they?
Gregory Plesse/AFP via Getty Imagine you’re halfway through your annual wheat harvest when a global crisis sends diesel and fertiliser prices soaring. All at once, your costs surge and your slender profit margin shrinks. Are there alternatives? Increasingly, the answer is yes. Putting solar on the shed roof or an unproductive field could help keep the farm running. In August, the federal government announced it would lift the cap on the long-running small-scale solar subsidy from 100 kilowatts…
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