Chad Raines, a fourth-generation Texas cotton farmer, stopped planting cotton after years of losses and found a very different way to make a living from his land and livestock. Instead of relying on crops, he began moving sheep between solar farms, where the animals graze on grass growing beneath and around the panels. The change transformed the economics of his farm. According to CBS News, Raines estimated a cotton crop would have cost him nearly $200,000 in losses, while his sheep-grazing operation brought in close to $300,000 in profit.
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