Dominion Energy employs 17,000 people across the country. Now, about 1,000 sheep work for the power company as well. In a process known as solar grazing, sheep consume vegetation on solar farms to ...

Sheep graze on a solar farm owned by SB Energy on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Buckholts, Texas. Photo: AP On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep ...

Across farm country, a quiet experiment is reshaping how fields earn their keep. By pairing flocks of sheep with rows of ...

Forget roaring lawnmowers and fuel-guzzling tractors. Today's solar companies are turning to flocks of sheep to trim grass and control weeds under solar panels. These eco-friendly grazers easily ...

In a dusty Texas field, Chad Raines surveys his new crop — sheep. "Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that I would be a shepherd," Raines said. The Raines family has farmed cotton for four ...

Joshua M. Pearce has received funding for research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Mitacs, the U.S. Department of Energy ...

What: Strawberry Ridge Farm Where: A 30-acre family farm at 3780 Sandberg Road in rural Duluth Business: Raising sheep for their fleece and selling breed stock and market lambs for local consumption.

Out in Geneva, a flock of sheep is spending its morning lazily munching on grass and clover. But they’re not just on a typical pasture. They’re grazing on a solar farm, an open field with solar arrays ...