In lower Michigan they're taking perfectly good farmland on the edge of cities and leasing it out for solar farms. As someone who worked as an agronomist for twenty years this does not make any sense to me. Once prime farmland is taken out of production for a solar farm you're never getting it back.

It makes more sense to lease worthless land in the North center part of the 'mitten' that is so sandy it doesn't even grow good trees. Now there's more snow and less sunlight but the state is getting revenue it would not otherwise get and there are few people affected. It seems as if the wildlife argument could be solved my capturing and relocating the wildlife.