'Help cattle producers hold onto their land and livelihoods': This first-of-its-kind solar ranch in Tennessee uses ingenious sensors to shelter cattle and cut carbon emissions — and it could help to offset $1 billion of US agriculture declines

Cattles grazing in a solar powered ranch.

• Silicon Ranch tests cattle grazing beneath active solar power infrastructure
• Software-controlled panels create space for large livestock movement safely
• Cattle rotation enables simultaneous grazing and electricity generation across paddocks

This small solar farm in Christiana, Tennessee, looks like many others from a distance - but beneath its black panels lies lush pasture instead of gravel.