Move over, sheep. Cattle are grazing solar sites, too, and that’s good news for Virginia.

By: Ivy Main

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: May 8, 2026

Words: 1,012

Last Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago

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The conventional wisdom was wrong. And having helped spread the conventional wisdom, I was wrong, too. Mea culpa. It turns out sheep aren’t the only animals capable of handling the job of vegetation management on solar sites.

Farmers are finding that cattle also thrive among solar panels – and they will get their chance to prove it in Virginia.

What’s that, you say? You didn’t know there was a conventional wisdom on this …

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