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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 71: Sheep Health in Solar Systems
DESCRIPTION:Whether you’re just getting into solar grazing or you’re a long-time sheep farmer\, managing sheep health in solar grazing is a major pain point that requires ongoing attention and accumulated experience. Preparing for common health issues and for the unexpected are key to keeping the sheep happy and your grazing operation running smoothly. \n\n\n\nFor our October 2023 ASGA Call\, we’ve put together a panel of veterinarians and experienced graziers to discuss how they handle some of the biggest health issues that come up in a solar grazing system.  \n\n\n\nOn the panel will be Cindy Wolf\, a veterinarian from the University of Minnesota\, Judy St. Leger\, a veterinary pathologist and solar grazier\, and Caroline Owens\, an ASGA Board Member with a long history raising sheep and an experienced solar grazier. Judy and Caroline are both Founding ASGA Members. \n\n\n\nThe panel will discuss a range of topics and\, in the second half of the event they’ll answer your sheep health questions. \n\n\n\nThe information will be useful not only to new and experienced solar graziers\, but to solar developers and site managers as well. \n\n\n\nCome to the event ready to ask your health-related questions! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe topics they’ll take up include: \n\n\n\n\nFoot health: What do you need to know about it and What are the different conditions you need to watch out for?\n\n\n\nParasites: What are the best approaches to managing parasites on solar sites?\n\n\n\nNear death experiences: How do you handle you’re sheep becoming unwell on a solar site and how do you catch it?\n\n\n\nWhat every solar grazier should put in their sheep first aid box: What equipment do you need to bring to a solar site?\n\n\n\nOverwintering: What are the health concerns with overwintering and winter housing\, including the risks of co-mingling multiple flocks?\n\n\n\nHerd Health While Scaling Up: What are the risks you run into when you’re growing your flock quickly?\n\n\n\n\nAre there any health questions missing from the list that you would like addressed? Drop your question in the comments below or bring them to the event and we’ll make sure to address it during the Q&A! \n\n\n\n???? Register Here
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-71-sheep-health-in-solar-systems/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 70: Introducing ASGA Certification™ for Solar Grazing Training!
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to launch ASGA Certification™ for Solar Grazing Training. This innovative program lends ASGA’s seal of approval to qualified training courses and their graduates. Certification recognizes educational programs teaching key topics and best management practices fundamental to using sheep to manage vegetation on solar energy sites. \n\n\n\n​Once a program is certified\, students successfully completing the program will be identified as ASGA-certified solar graziers. The overall objective is to support the development of skilled solar graziers to meet the demands of rapid solar expansion\, help new graziers succeed\, and ensure the livestock is well taken care of. \n\n\n\n​At this month’s webinar\, ASGA Board Member Caroline Owens will explain how the program works\, outline the application process\, and discuss the benefits to various stakeholders. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvents 1\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n​Caroline Owens is a solar grazier in Pennsylvania with a background in education as well as 30 plus years running sheep. She is a former Vocational Agriculture teacher who moved on to marketing communications and equestrian travel before farming full-time. She holds a B.S. in Animal Science/Agricultural Education from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Boston University. From 2004 until 2018\, Caroline offered Sheep Camp for Kids on the farm during the summer\, a program so popular that no spot went unfilled for 14 consecutive years. Caroline also enjoys teaching adults\, holding educational events such as Sheep Boot Camp\, Lambing Clinic\, and Sheep 101. \n\n\n\nHosts \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAmerican Solar Grazing Association
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-70-introducing-asga-certification-for-solar-grazing-training/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 69 - Turning Sheep Green: Solar Grazing's Long-Term Emissions and Environmental Benefits
DESCRIPTION:What are the climate and environmental impacts of adding sheep to solar sites? How does solar grazing compare to conventional solar sites and to conventional sheep production? \n\n\n\nThe potential impact solar grazing may have on reducing emissions is an important growth area for the future of the industry. \n\n\n\nFor this month’s webinar\, we’re introducing some exciting research on the environmental benefits of solar grazing and putting it in conversation with research on the environmental impact of conventional sheep production. \n\n\n\nWe’ve invited Robert Handler and Joshua Pierce to discuss their exciting new paper analyzing the benefits of grazing sheep on solar sites over a 30-year life cycle. To bring more context to the discussion\, we’ve invited Erin Recktenwald from Michigan State University to discuss her research estimating the greenhouse gas emissions from different types of sheep production. \n\n\n\nThe discussion will help give us a sense of the overall climate benefits of solar grazing\, and allow us to compare solar grazing’s impacts to conventional sheep grazing. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout Robert and Joshua’s Life Cycle Analysis of Solar Grazing:Taking the long view\, Robert and Joshua’s research shows that solar grazing is twice as land-use efficient than producing sheep and operating solar sites separately\, and reduces emissions. Their findings argue that dual-use systems reduce the environmental impacts of producing electricity and food\, and grazing solar sites should be encouraged. \n\n\n\nLink: https://www.agrisolarclearinghouse.org/greener-sheep-life-cycle-analysis-of-integrated-sheep-agrivoltaic-systems/ \n\n\n\nAbout Erin’s research into life-cycle emissions from sheep production:The U.S. sheep industry is uniquely diverse\, with a range of productivity and management intensity from housed\, highly prolific flocks to flocks with lower productivity in extensive grazing systems. The adoption of different management practices are often regional\, but there is also a large range of management systems within a region related to many factors including land value\, degree of infrastructure investment\, size of farm and market focus. There are also clear regional differences based on climate zone and associated vegetation. \n\n\n\nThe main objective of this study was to develop a cradle-to-farm gate life cycle analysis for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from four types of sheep production systems typically found in the U.S.\, ranging from highly productive\, intensive management to less productive\, more extensive management practices. Another objective was to determine the factors that contribute to an operation’s emissions\, such as ewe productivity\, manure management\, fuel usage\, feed purchasing\, etc. in an effort to identify potential mitigation targets. The goal of this study was not to find an optimal management system within the U.S. that produced the least emissions\, but to determine the variability among and within operation types and determine their sources of GHG to identify potential mitigation strategies.
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-69-turning-sheep-green-solar-grazings-long-term-emissions-and-environmental-benefits/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 68: Making Agrivoltaics a Financial Success - Tools & Research Update from NREL
DESCRIPTION:It’s been a little while since we last heard an update on NREL’s (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) agrivoltaics research programs and tools.  \n\n\n\nFor our July webinar\, we’re pleased to be joined by Jordan Macknick and James McCall who will provide an overview of their agrivoltaics research through the InSPIRE project\, with a focus on their work on the agrivoltaics costs.  \n\n\n\nJordan and James will discuss several useful tools for solar graziers: their new agrivoltaics map\, the agrivoltaics financial calculator\, and their comparative research into O&M costs for different types of groundcovers. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can learn more about the results of NREL’s agrivoltaics research by checking out their recent publication\, “The 5 Cs of Agrivoltaic Success Factors in the United States: Lessons From the InSPIRE Research Study.” \n\n\n\n???? Register here \n\n\n\nEvents 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames McCall is a senior analyst at NREL who specializes in modeling the economic and environmental tradeoffs of agrivoltaics and renewable energy projects. His areas of interest include dual-land use solar configurations\, energy-water-food nexus\, land use change impacts\, and renewable energy siting and economic modeling. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJordan Macknick is the Lead Energy-Water-Land Analyst for NREL. He is a member of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center’s Systems Modeling team within the Resources and Sustainability Group. His primary work addresses the environmental impacts of energy technologies\, while seeking opportunities for energy and ecological synergies.In his energy-water-land leadership capacity\, Macknick analyzes national and regional implications of different energy pathways in the context of water and land resources\, evaluates opportunities to improve the energy management of water infrastructure\, and explores innovative approaches to co-locating solar and agricultural activities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterested in sponsoring an ASGA call?\n\n\n\n???? Become an ASGA Sponsor!
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-68-making-agrivoltaics-a-financial-success-tools-research-update-from-nrel/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 67: Shepherding the future - Insights from Silicon Ranch's Solar Grazing Programs in the Southeast
DESCRIPTION:Note: our June webinar is happening on Tuesday June 6th instead of the normal first Wednesday of the month\n\n\n\nJoin us for a webinar featuring Jim Malooley from Silicon Ranch. Jim will discuss their innovative\, large-scale solar grazing programs in the Southeast and beyond. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSilicon Ranch has developed exciting solar grazing programs to support regenerative agriculture\, ensuring that their sites are managed intentionally to restore functioning grassland ecosystems while producing pasture-raised lamb and renewable solar energy. \n\n\n\nThrough their Self-Perform Program\, Silicon Ranch trains shepherds to graze large flocks on the company’s solar sites\, helping to bring local farmers into the solar grazing world and create long-term\, sustainable solar grazing operations at their sites. \n\n\n\nIn addition to working with their in-house local farmers\, Silicon Ranch develops regional partnerships with farmers to help them build their solar grazing operations and careers\, including working with them to optimize grazing conditions (fencing\, water development\, and other infrastructure) on sites. This is part of Silicon Ranch’s efforts to support the growth of careers in agrivoltaics and shepherding in rural communities while pursuing renewable agriculture goals. \n\n\n\nAs a part of their work to restore soil health and biodiversity\, they cultivate multi-species grasses to prevent erosion\, reduce fire fuel\, and mitigate shade. \n\n\n\nSilicon Ranch owns and operates all of their solar projects\, putting them in a good position for setting up sites for effective\, long-term grazing and agrivoltaics programs. \n\n\n\nJim will also discuss their genetics work with the NSIP to adapt parasite-resistant breeds for grazing in the Southeast. \n\n\n\n???? Register here \n\n\n\nEvents 3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Malooley is a first-generation farmer and shepherd from Indianapolis\, IN.  After attending Purdue and Boise State Universities\, Jim worked in project management on institutional construction projects.  He and his wife’s shared lifelong interest in agriculture led them to depart their careers and found Yellowbird Farms in 2012 in McMinnville\, TN.  From the beginning\, the goal at Yellowbird Farms was to apply Jim’s engineering background and the tools available through EBVs and the National Sheep Improvement Program to develop a commercial flock of sheep adapted to the Southeast. Foundation ewes were sourced from NSIP producers selecting for parasite-resistant\, easy-keeping Katahdins.  Similar criteria were used over the years for sire selection and eventually grew to include the use of southern-adapted Texel rams.   \n\n\n\nAfter outgrowing their deeded acres\, Jim turned to solar grazing as a potential solution for expanding his land base.  He met the Regenerative Energy team at Silicon Ranch and both parties recognized they share common goals and values.   \n\n\n\nJim and the Yellowbird flock joined Silicon Ranch late 2021 marking the final step in SRC’s development of a self-owned\, self-managed\, livestock-based\, holistic land management unit.  Through his work within the Regenerative Energy program\, Jim continues to advocate for the vast opportunities created by growth of renewable energy production for the American Sheep Industry and its producers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterested in sponsoring an ASGA call?\n\n\n\n???? Become an ASGA Sponsor!
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-67-shepherding-the-future-insights-from-silicon-ranchs-solar-grazing-programs-in-the-southeast/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 66: Opportunities for Solar Wool Part II - Soil Stability and Erosion Control for Renewable projects
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second webinar on potential markets for solar wool. For this webinar\, we will explore the market opportunities for using U.S. wool fiber in erosion control products\, which are used to stabilize weak soil.  \n\n\n\nOur speaker will be Rob Ament from Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute. He is pioneering domestic wool as a sustainable\, natural fiber component for erosion control products free of plastic and other synthetic materials. If it works\, this could open up significant new markets for domestic wool growers and sheep graziers\, including solar graziers. Rob will discuss his research on the topic. \n\n\n\nEvents 4\n\n\n\nErosion control products have a number of applications and are important for large renewable energy projects\, including ground-mounted solar arrays. Erosion control measures are generally required as environmental mitigations for maintaining soil and water quality. Rolled\, pelletized\, and sprayed erosion control measures are commonplace in renewable energy projects for seeding vegetation and stabilizing sites. \n\n\n\nGiven the scale of future solar development proposed in the U.S.\, there also could be significant opportunities for wool grown by domestic sheep graziers to help meet the substantial need for soil stabilization at these sites and other large environmental engineering projects. \n\n\n\nRob Ament’s field research explored the development and deployment of innovative erosion control blankets and silt fences that use waste wool and other naturally decomposable components that are free of plastic or any other synthetic materials. His research demonstrates that these home-grown erosion control products offer superior\, natural fiber solutions for establishing vegetation on disturbed soils. In the future\, solar and grazing sheep may help to produce erosion control components\, creating a potential new field of circular\, solar-grown\, agrivoltaic wool products. \n\n\n\nThe research and development were supported by the Montana Department of Transportation and Idaho Transportation Department in two separate projects. \n\n\n\nHosts: Nick Armentrout and Alyssa Andrew \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Ament is the Road Ecology Program Manager at Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute. He leads a group of research ecologists and engineers to provide solutions that reduce the ecological impacts of transport infrastructure on nature\, both in North America and internationally. Rob has more than 25 years of experience in plant ecology\, natural resource management\, wildlife conservation\, and environmental policy. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to our sponsor!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterested in sponsoring an ASGA call?\n\n\n\n???? Become an ASGA Sponsor!
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-66-opportunities-for-solar-wool-part-ii-soil-stability-and-erosion-control-for-renewable-projects/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T180000
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 65: Preparing for Utility-Scale Solar Grazing in the Northeast
DESCRIPTION:What do solar graziers in New England and the Northeast need to know to prepare for grazing at scale? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a follow up to our March webinar on large-scale solar grazing in California and Texas\, we’ve put together a discussion about scaling up to large site grazing in the northeastern United States. \n\n\n\nASGA Members Alan Aulson and Dick Henry will join us to share their experiences with targeted grazing in New England. Both Dick and Alan have a long history of targeted grazing in the northeast\, accumulating years of experience before the recent solar boom expanded interest in targeted grazing at solar sites. \n\n\n\nSince utility-scale solar sites are expanding quickly in the region\, Dick and Alan’s extensive experience grazing different areas across northern new England will be valuable for solar graziers who are working to adapt targeted grazing practices to large (and small) solar sites. \n\n\n\nASGA Board Member Daniel Dotterer will also join us to discuss the process he is working through to expand his grazing operation for large site grazing\, with a particular emphasis on the capital issues involved. Based in Pennsylvania\, like many graziers in his state Daniel is in a position where large solar site opportunities are on the horizon but delayed for various reasons\, making it particularly difficult to plan for the expansion. \n\n\n\nEvents 5\n\n\n\nHosts: Kevin Richardson and Ely Valdez
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-65-preparing-for-utility-scale-solar-grazing-in-the-northeast/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230326T160000
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SUMMARY:Third Annual Membership Meeting of the American Solar Grazing Association
DESCRIPTION:Last year was an incredible year of growth for solar grazing and ASGA. At the annual meeting\, we will highlight ASGA’s achievements from 2022 and give you a preview of the exciting developments you can expect to see in 2023.  \n\n\n\nMembers can expect to: vote in new board members\, meet your leadership team\, learn about programming for 2023\, hear about ASGA’s projects\, and more.  \n\n\n\nThe Annual Meeting will be hosted by ASGA’s leadership team. \n\n\n\nASGA Members\, please make sure to RSVP on the network\, \n\n\n\n➡️ ASGA Members: RSVP by logging into the ASGA Network \n\n\n\n➡️ Non-ASGA Members: RSVP on the public registration page \n\n\n\nEvents 6\n\n\n\nVoting: ASGA Members will have the option to vote for candidates for the ASGA Board of Directors by proxy in advance of the meeting using an electronic voting form. The electronic voting form will be sent to ASGA Members on the network and by email. Voting through this form will remain open until March 25th at 11:59PM Eastern. \n\n\n\nOnly ASGA members are eligible to vote for board members\, but non-members are welcome to attend.
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/third-annual-membership-meeting-of-the-american-solar-grazing-association/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T180000
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 64: Large-Site Solar Grazing\, What Graziers Need to Know (Panel Discussion)
DESCRIPTION:What does it take to manage a utility scale grazing and how do you get started? What are the roadblocks and what are the success stories? \n\n\n\nJoin us for this panel discussion with ASGA members JR Howard\, Ryan Indart\, and Chad Raines who will answer your questions about utility-scale solar grazing and speak about their own experience\, including the challenges and opportunities they have encountered. \n\n\n\nHosts: Kevin Richardson\, Caroline Owens\, and Caleb Scott \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. is in the middle of an unprecedented expansion of large solar farms\, and we could see up to 29 gigawatts of new large-scale solar developments in 2023 alone. \n\n\n\nAs utility-scale solar farms rapidly expand across the country\, especially in regions where solar grazing has mostly been done on community-scale sites\, there will be high demand to graze these larger solar sites.  \n\n\n\nMany farmers will be challenged to expand their grazing business or innovate new operations with fellow producers to match the requirements of utility-scale grazing. \n\n\n\nWhile each region and each farmer will have their own unique challenges and innovations\, we can learn a lot from those who are already grazing at scale or working on building a utility-scale grazing operation. \n\n\n\nFortunately ASGA has awesome graziers who are already operating at scale. \n\n\n\nWe’ve prepared a moderated panel discussion with three ASGA members\, Ryan Indart\, JR Howard\, and Chad Raines\, who will talk about their own unique experiences and how they are meeting the challenges of solar grazing at scale.  \n\n\n\nRyan Indart is a 4th-generatoin rancher who grazes 10\,000+ acres at major solar sites in low-rainfall areas in California and Arizona. In 2009 Ryan purchased the sheep ranching enterprise from the family business and started The Indart Group\, Inc.\, which is engaged in sheep ranching\, direct marketing of lamb\, dry land farming\, custom sheep grazing services specializing in large utility scale solar projects and custom farm work. He currently grazes around 3\,500 Targhee X Finn sheep\, and shears over 30\,000 pounds of wool that is warehoused and sold through Roswell Wool. \n\n\n\nJR Howard grazes utility-scale solar sites in rain-rich East Texas where rainfall can hit 50 inches per year. He and his family own/operate Texas Solar Sheep focusing on utility scale grazing. They currently run about 3500 ewes. JR is the current President of the Texas Dorper Sheep Association and on the national board of directors for the American Dorper Sheep Breeders Society.  \n\n\n\nChad Raines is a long-time rancher from West Texas who’s just getting started with solar grazing and plans to build a business around large-site operations. He’s looking to graze far from his home base\, which presents unique challenges. \n\n\n\nThey’re here to answer your questions about getting scaling up and running utility-scale operations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-64-large-site-solar-grazing-what-graziers-need-to-know-panel-discussion/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 63: Pollinator Friendly Solar Sites with MNL
DESCRIPTION:What are the benefits of pollinator friendly solar sites? How does it impact grazing?Join us for our February webinar with Minnesota Native Landscapes and their research partners on pollinator habitats at solar sites. \n\n\n\nPollinator habitats continue to be an important issue for solar site development\, both for their potential ecological benefits and because of their inclusion in legislation regulating dual use and solar siting. How pollinator habitats interact with grazing and vegetation management is a hot topic for the solar grazing world.MNL’s Jake Janski will provide an overview of the last 7 years of Minnesota’s pollinator friendly solar boom\, and MNL’s partners from Argonne National Laboratory and Monarch Joint Venture will discuss the results of their respective solar pollinator research projects.Here’s more details on what they’ll cover:Jake will break down MNL’s pollinator friendly solar operations and cover everything from seed mix design and establishing vegetation to the introduction of grazing as a multi-benefit pollinator habitat management tool.Following Jake’s overview\, Lee Walston and Heidi Hartmann from Argonne National Laboratory will present field data from their research into the ecological opportunities of solar-pollinator habitats.Then Laura Lukens from Monarch Joint Venture will present the results from a 2021 pilot study that investigated the benefits of pollinator-friendly solar in Minnesota.The presentations will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nHosts: Kevin Richardson (ASGA) and Jonathan Barter  \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJake Janski is the Director of Service Operations and a Senior Ecologist at MNL (formerly Minnesota Native Landscapes). Jake applies experiences from the past 22 years in the Ecological Restoration industry towards the effective restoration and management of our region’s plant communities\, solar sites\, pollinator habitats\, and natural resources. Jake is responsible for MNL’s broad spectrum of ecological field services including habitat restoration\, stormwater management\, conservation grazing\, vegetation management\, prescribed burning\, and wildland fire suppression. In recent years\, he has also contributed directly to DOE’s InSPIRE agrivoltaic research and ASTRO working group; served on the PV-SMaRT project’s Water Quality Task Force; and received a state grant to study the impacts of sheep grazing on pollinator habitat. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Walston (M.S.) is an ecologist at Argonne National Laboratory where he is head of the Ecology\, Natural Resources\, and Managed Systems Department within the Environmental Science Division. He has over a decade of experience in efforts to better understand and minimize the ecological impacts of solar energy. For the past 5 years he has been involved in several DOE-funded projects to evaluate the ecological and ecosystem service opportunities of solar-pollinator habitat.  He also serves on several renewable energy advisory boards and working groups such as the TWS Renewable Energy Working Group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeidi Hartmann (M.S.) manages the Land Resources and Energy Policy Program within the Environmental Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Heidi’s career has been focused on the assessment of impacts of environmental stressors on human health and ecosystems\, with an emphasis on stressors introduced by various types of energy use. Most recently she has supported Bureau of Land Management and Department of Energy projects assessing environmental impacts and potential ecosystem services from utility-scale solar development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Lukens is a Program Coordinator for the Monarch Joint Venture\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving monarch butterflies and their migration. Laura coordinates research projects throughout the US and cultivates a network of researchers and science initiatives to advance monarch conservation priorities. Since 2014\, Laura has worked on a variety of projects\, studying monarch butterflies\, their natural enemies\, and habitat conditions in a variety of land use types and regions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-63-pollinator-friendly-solar-sites-with-mnl/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 62: Unlocking the Future of Agrivoltaics in New Jersey with Rutgers University
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the exciting agrivolatics programs happening in New Jersey around grazing\, high-value crops (soybeans and corn)\, hay\, and vegetables\, and how they’re experimenting with agrivoltaics systems to work with different types of agriculture. \n\n\n\nWe’re kicking 2023 off with a discussion of agrivoltaics in New Jersey. David Specca from Rutgers University will discuss the exciting agrivoltaics and grazing research projects that the university’s NJ Ag Experiment Station (NJAES) is developing with funding from the state’s recently passed Dual-use Solar Act (2021). Dave will also talk about the opportunities and challenges for Agrivoltaics in New Jersey more broadly. Joining him for the call from Rutgers will be Dr. Mike Westendorf (Extension Specialist for Animal Production) and Dr. A. J. Both (Extension Specialist for Controlled Environment Ag). \n\n\n\nThe team at Rutgers is developing projects at multiple solar farm sites and plans to research growing high-value crops such as soybeans\, hay\, and corn under a single axis tracker\, as well as vegetable and nursery crops.  \n\n\n\nAt the sites\, they plan to experiment with solar grazing\, including grazing beef cows with vertical bifacial panels.  \n\n\n\nThrough their research\, they hope to identify systems that work for multiple types of agriculture. The research program aims to experiment with agrivoltaic systems built high enough to allow for farm equipment operation. \n\n\n\nDave will discuss their planned animal and plant research as well as go into the types of PV systems they’ll employ and how they’re setting up the research sites. \n\n\n\nLean more about the Rutgers agrivoltaics research program and the recently passed dual-use law in NJ here: https://ecocomplex.rutgers.edu/agrivoltaics-research.html \n\n\n\nHost: Kevin Richardson \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Specca is the Assistant Director of Rutgers University’s EcoComplex Clean Energy Innovation Center. His expertise includes identifying and demonstrating technologies and practices that will help the agricultural industry become more sustainable\, especially hydroponic and aquaponic applications for rural and urban agriculture\, also identifying and quantifying waste-based clean energy feedstocks and technologies. His experience\, from a production agriculture perspective\, gives him a unique background for assisting the many startup businesses that come to the EcoComplex. He was also part of the NJAES team that produced the “Assessment of Biomass Energy Potential in NJ”. Dave earned a BS in Horticulture and an MS in Plant Science from Rutgers University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Mike Westendorf is the Extension Specialist for Animal Production in in the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers. As an Animal Sciences Extension Specialist of Rutgers\, Dr. Westendorf conducts research related to animal agriculture and create outreach and Extension programs that serve the needs of the state’s farmers – both livestock and equine. Maintaining economic and environmental sustainability in a densely populated state poses challenges for farmers. To address these challenges\, he has developed technical support programs and conducted applied research in the areas of animal waste management\, food waste and by-product utilization\, and optimization of animal growth. Dr. Westendorf’s work has been done in collaboration with Rutgers Cooperative Extension faculty and staff as well as colleagues in the State departments of Agriculture and Environmental Protection\, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)\, and the NJ Farm Bureau. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. A.J. Both is the Extension Specialist for Controlled Environment Ag in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers. Trained as an engineer with degrees from Wageningen University (1988) in the Netherlands and Cornell University (1995)\, Dr. Both now serves on the faculty in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University as Professor and Extension Specialist. His research focuses on methods and systems to provide the optimum growing environment in protected plant production facilities. He has had a long interest in hydroponics\, supplemental lighting and the use of energy in agricultural systems. His research includes projects in growth chambers\, greenhouses and high tunnels. He conducts industry outreach through presentations at grower meetings\, articles for trade journals\, and collaborations with colleagues across the US. He teaches several undergraduate and graduate classes in different curricula at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKnow someone who isn’t an ASGA member but should be? \n\n\n\nSend them the link to join and tell them to sign up today! Link: https://solargrazing.org/join\n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission? Please consider donating to ASGA in 2023  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-62-unlocking-the-future-of-agrivoltaics-in-new-jersey-with-rutgers-university/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 61: Planning for an Agrivoltaics Future with Encore Renewable Energy
DESCRIPTION:How can innovative agrivoltaics programs address local community concerns\, including impacts on agricultural land? What does the future of agrivoltaics look like from the perspective of a solar and energy storage developer?Join us for our December webinar with Chad Farrell\, Amber Lessard\, and Lauren Glickman from Encore Renewable Energy\, an innovator in community-scale renewable energy and B-Corp based in Vermont that has big plans for advancing the field of agrivoltaics across the industry. Chad\, Amber and Lauren will discuss how Encore is changing the narrative around solar and agriculture through agrivoltaics projects and strong community engagement as they address local concerns about solar in agricultural areas. Chad will share how Encore decided to pursue agrivoltiac solutions including pollinator-friendly ground cover and solar grazing. Amber will also discuss the practical aspects of their existing solar grazing operations on two solar sites\, both of which were not developed with solar grazing in mind. Lauren will discuss where they go from here and how the company is thinking about the best ways to incorporate agrivoltaics in both community outreach and future development projects. \n\n\n\nHost: Kevin Richardson (ASGA)  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChad Farrell  is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Encore Renewable Energy\, a leader in community scale renewable energy project development services. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the fields of brownfields redevelopment and renewable energy project finance\, development and construction. At Encore\, Chad leads the team’s innovative and collaborative efforts to design\, permit\, finance and construct over 80 different commercial scale solar PV projects throughout the State of Vermont and beyond\, representing more than $100M in total investment value. Many of these projects involve reclaiming undervalued real estate for clean energy generation and storage\, helping to revitalize communities and create a cleaner\, brighter future for all. \n\n\n\nHe holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University and earned a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont. Chad serves on the Board of Directors of the Vermont Natural Resources Council and is also a member of the Board of Directors for Renewable Energy Vermont. Following appointment by the Vermont Senate to represent the clean energy sector\, he is currently serving on the Vermont Climate Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmber Lessard serves as the Director of Construction and Asset Management at Encore Renewable Energy. Having a wide variety of experience in the Vermont solar industry\, she has worked as a residential PV installer and service technician\, as well as a commercial solar evaluator\, designer\, site supervisor\, and operations and maintenance manager. She is a licensed electrician in Vermont and holds the NABCEP PV Installation Professional certification. Amber is a proponent for dual-use solar and is on the Board of Advisors for the American Solar Grazing Association. An advocate for increasing diversity in the renewable energy and trade industries\, Amber works closely with the non-profit Vermont Works for Women as a solar instructor for their middle school and high school programs\, adult pre-apprenticeship training\, and job training for incarcerated women nearing release. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren Glickman is the VP of Marketing for Encore Renewable Energy. She has over a decade of experience in clean energy and climate change advocacy\, and a successful track record for implementing winning social media and online strategies. She was awarded a Platinum Cleanie Award in 2019 as a Rising Star for the clean energy industry\, as well as a spot on the #Solar100\, a ranking of the most influential leaders in the solar industry. She has spearheaded the strategic marketing and communications efforts for numerous companies and organizations across the renewable energy sector. \n\n\n\nLauren has spent the last decade as a communications consultant for nonprofits and renewable energy businesses as a Managing Partner for RenewComm and independently as WindyGlick Communications. She’s worked with leaders across the wind\, solar\, energy storage and clean energy finance sectors including Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy\, CleanCapital\, Hannon Armstrong\, Rope Partner\, Solar Energy Trade Shows (now RE+)\, Grid Alternatives and Edison Energy. \n\n\n\nPreviously\, she was at the American Wind Energy Association (now the American Clean Power Association)\, where she was responsible for the re-design\, relaunch and management of their social media program and the Power of Wind online advocacy portal. Her work was recognized among the top 10 social-media-savvy trade associations. She has also successfully organized marketing and advocacy campaigns for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network\, Environmental Working Group\, and the Fund for Public Interest Research. \n\n\n\nSince 2013 Lauren has been an adjunct professor at The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs\, teaching undergraduate\, graduate and executive education courses and seminars on social media theory and practice. She holds a Bachelor’s in Environmental Policy and English from Tulane University. Outside of her work to accelerate the clean energy transition\, Lauren enjoys cooking\, bluegrass\, horseback riding and hikes with her dog Basil. She is a competitive amateur equestrian and competes with her horse George in the adult jumpers in the Washington\, DC region. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKnow someone who isn’t an ASGA member but should be?  \n\n\n\nSend them the link to join and tell them to sign up today! Link: https://solargrazing.org/join \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission? Please consider donating to ASGA in 2022  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing 
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-61-planning-for-an-agrivoltaics-future-with-encore-renewable-energy/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 60: Is It Time for Solar Wool? A Practical Conversation on Wool Production at Solar Sites (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:How viable is grazing wool sheep on solar sites? Does wool production have the potential to help make grazing more economically sustainable? What are potential benefits and challenges to implementation? \n\n\n\nOn our November ASGA call we’ll be taking up the threads of solar wool and discussing its potential for solar graziers. ASGA Board Member Nick Armentrout will lead a discussion on what’s happening with wool at some solar sites and the potential for solar wool products. He’ll be joined by Collin Kennedy a third-generation sheep shearer who is interested in exploring solar grazing with wool sheep\, and Ryan Indart\, a fourth generation farmer\, sheepman and solar grazier raising wool sheep. Collin and Ryan will talk about their experience\, what they’re doing with wool and fiber\, how its fits with their production\, and where they see this industry potentially going. \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be the first of a series focused on the potential for solar-wool production. The follow up webinar in April 2023 will take up the question of existing and potential future markets for solar wool. \n\n\n\nHosts: Kevin Richardson (ASGA) and Daniel Finnegan (ASGA Board Member) \n\n\n\nEvents 7\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNick Armentrout has a professional background in small business and supply chain administration\, sales\, land and livestock management. Over the course of his career\, Nick has managed four businesses for others\, and two of his own\, throughout start-up phase to maturity. A recent highlight was 11 years sourcing and supplying domestic wool for the commission manufacture of 100% American grown and sewn\, knit and woven wool clothing fabrics\, as well as goods certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard – GOTS\, and Cradle to Cradle Certified™ for the U.S. clothing company Ramblers Way Farm\, Inc. \n\n\n\nNick has spent most of his adult years somehow engaged with animal agriculture and organic farming. Initially ranching in Wyoming\, Montana\, and Idaho\, he returned home to Maine to start Spring Creek Farm with his wife\, Sarah\, in 1998.  Nick manages all operations of the farm – a horse\, sheep\, grain\, and hay business that also serves as the host facility for Carlisle Equestrian Academy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollin Kennedy  is a sheep producer and a 3rd generation sheep shearer from central Indiana.  His grandfather learned to shear in the FFA and passed the trade down to his sons and grandsons. Collin has sheared for 15 years and currently shears 12\,000 head of sheep and over 50\,000 pounds of wool annually in Indiana\, Kentucky\, Michigan and Ohio. \n\n\n\nCollin has been married for 12 years to his high school sweetheart\, Ashley. They have 5 children who are great sheep herders and love working on the farm. He raises Rambouillet\, Suffolk and Southdown sheep and plans on continuing the Kennedy shearing tradition by passing down the skill to his children.  \n\n\n\nWith the growth of solar grazing there is an opportunity for wool sheep to make a resurgence in the US. Collin hopes to not only participate in grazing utility scale solar with wool sheep\, but also help other producers with the training of new shearers.  Finding quality shearers is a huge problem facing US producers\, but there is an opportunity for solar graziers to work together to solve this problem. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRyan Indart is a Fourth Generation Sheep Rancher in Fresno County CA. In 2009 Ryan purchased the sheep ranching enterprise from the family business and started The Indart Group\, Inc.\, which is engaged in sheep ranching\, direct marketing of lamb\, dry land farming\, custom sheep grazing services specializing in large utility scale solar projects and custom farm work. He currently grazes around 3\,500 Targhee X Finn sheep\, and shears over 30\,000 pounds of wool that is warehoused and sold through Roswell Wool. Along with sheep ranching\, Ryan and his family also farm cherries\, oranges\, almonds\, and dry land wheat and barley in Fresno County and on the family ranch in Clovis\, CA.   \n\n\n\nRyan is extremely proud and honored to have the opportunity to continue the Indart Family name in the sheep industry today. Ryan is an active and involved leader in many aspects of the Sheep Industry. He is a past president of and current Board member of the California Wool Growers Association and Western Range Association. He is a Board member of the National Lamb Feeders Association. He is the past Chair and Board member of The Clovis Chamber of Commerce. He is the current VP of The Fresno County Farm Bureau and sits on the District 8 Liaison Committee for Blue Diamond Growers. Ryan is happily married to his wife Beatriz and they have four daughters: Lucia 14 years old\, Cecilia 12 years old\, Maggie 10 years old\, and Anna Marie 6 years old. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?Please consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing 
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-60-is-it-time-for-solar-wool-a-practical-conversation-on-wool-production-at-solar-sites-part-1/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 59: Agrivoltaics and Solar Development that Benefits Communities and Ecosystems with Brian Ross\, Great Plains Institute
DESCRIPTION:The ongoing large-scale expansion of solar development will require installing solar on substantial acreage across the U.S. Addressing local concerns over the potential loss of farmland and local siting and regulatory issues represent major challenges to solar’s expansion.The Great Plains Institute’s (GPI) Brian Ross has been leading research on designing solar development in order to address local concerns by optimizing the co-benefits solar developments offer communities. For this month’s webinar\, Brian will discuss GPI’s research into how integrating agriculture with solar can reduce barriers to large-scale solar site development and how the ecosystem’s benefits of solar can help address community concerns. This includes using smart siting to increase groundwater protection\, with the potential for increasing the tax base and landowner returns\, as well as habitat restoration and/or enhancement. Brian will also touch on GPI’s work to engage local community stakeholders on solar’s co-benefits. \n\n\n\nEvents 8\n\n\n\nHere are three short blog posts Brian has published on GPI’s research: \n\n\n\n➡️ Solar\, with Benefits! (Or\, the Co-Benefits Approach to Solar Development) \n\n\n\n➡️ Solar Plus: How Solar-Integrated Agriculture Could Reduce Barriers to Large-Scale Solar Deployment \n\n\n\n➡️ Stormwater Management in Solar Projects: Barriers and Best Practices \n\n\n\nHosts: Caroline Owens\, ASGA Board Member\, and Kevin Richardson (ASGA)  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Ross\, AICP\, LEED GA\, is a Vice President at the Great Plains Institute\, leading GPI’s renewable energy market transformation efforts in the Midwest and nationally.  He has worked with dozens of local\, regional\, and state governments on climate and energy planning\, policy and regulation. Brian currently leads multiple efforts at both the state and national level on integrating solar development with natural systems\, community priorities\, and agriculture business models. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing 
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-59-agrivoltaics-and-solar-development-that-benefits-communities-and-ecosystems-with-brian-ross-great-plains-institute/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 58: High Quality Forage & Cool-Season Hay at Solar Sites with Ohio State
DESCRIPTION:What are the possibilities for hay on solar sites? \n\n\n\nFor our September webinar\, the folks from Ohio State Extension and Savion Energy will tell us about their experiments with cool-season hay and other high quality forages (crimson clover\, alfalfa\, teff grass) as effective vegetative cover for solar sites and discuss the implications for grazing.  \n\n\n\nThe team from Ohio State includes Erich Romich\, Braden Campbell\, and Christine Gelley\, and they’ll be joined by Sarah Moser from Savion Energy. They’ll discuss their findings\, the challenges and benefits associated with growing hay on solar\, and what these findings would mean for grazing sites\, including the economics of it and the nutritional effects on sheep.  \n\n\n\nThe talk will cover the implications for both utility-scale solar and smaller scale operations. \n\n\n\nHosts: Nick Armentrout of Spring Creek Farm and an ASGA Board Member and Kevin Richardson (ASGA)\, ASGA’s Outreach Coordinator\, will host. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Romich is an Ohio State University Extension Field Specialist for Energy Education. Serving as a statewide Extension Field Specialist since 2012\, he works closely with private\, public\, and university partners to conduct research\, develop extension programs\, and teach in communities throughout the state.  Romich’s energy programs focus on identifying best practices for energy management strategies in agriculture to enhance the overall environmental and economic conditions in Ohio communities.    \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Gelley is an Extension Educator for Agriculture and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University stationed in Noble County. Specializing in forage quality and management in grazing and hay systems\, she serves as the co-leader of the Ohio State Extension Forage and Sheep Teams. She is also an active member of the OSU Extension Energy Outreach Group\, the OSU Beef Team\, and Agronomic Crops team. An avid writer\, videographer\, and researcher\, Christine strives each day to be an encouraging voice of reason to her clientele\, while seeing challenges as opportunities and posing viable solutions to enhance the lives of Ohioans. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrady Campbell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at The Ohio State University in the College of Food\, Agriculture\, and Environmental Sciences currently serving as the State Small Ruminant Extension Specialist. Brady’s areas of interest and expertise range from animal health\, nutrition\, marketing\, economics\, pasture and parasite management\, agrivoltaics\, animal handling and husbandry\, and much more. To further connect himself with the small ruminant industry\, Brady actively raises purebred and commercial sheep with his family and supports the industry by serving as an ex-officio member on both the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association (OSIA) and Ohio Sheep and Wool Program (OSWP) board of directors\, member of the American Sheep Industry (ASI) Production\, Education\, and Research Council\, Texel director with the National Sheep Improvement Program (NSIP)\, and President of the Texel Sheep Breeders Society.    \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Moser is the Director of Farm Operations & Agrivoltaics at Savion LLC \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing 
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-58-high-quality-forage-cool-season-hay-at-solar-sites-with-ohio-state/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call 57: NYSERDA’s New Dual-Use Strategies
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: The August webinar will be held the 2nd Tuesday of month instead of the customary 1st Wednesday \n\n\n\nFor our August webinar\, we’ll be hosting Jeremy Wyble (NYSERDA) and Jessica Bacher (Pace Law) to present NYSERDA’s recently-released 2022 Smart Solar Siting Scorecard and go through the strategies that the scorecard establishes for co-utilization solar projects\, including solar grazing. Jeremy and Jessica will give a brief overview of New York State’s climate goals\, NYSERDA’s Large-Scale Renewable program and then present the Scorecard’s mechanics with a focus on the dual-use components pertaining to crop production and grazing. \n\n\n\nYou’ll want to tune into this webinar in particular because New York’s strategies will be influential in helping to shape guidelines for agrivoltaics and solar grazing nationwide. Jeremy and Jessica’s presentation will give us a first-hand look at New York’s leadership in supporting the smart siting of solar projects and spurring agrivoltaic innovation. \n\n\n\nThere will be a Q&A after the presentation. \n\n\n\n→ See the 2022 Smart Solar Siting Scorecard here. \n\n\n\nHost: Kevin Richardson\, ASGA’s Outreach Coordinator \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy Wyble is a Senior Project Manager for NYSERDA’s Large-Scale Renewables Program. He has over 17 years of experience in the solar industry providing project management\, technical diligence\, and development in the public and private sectors across EPCs\, developers\, owner-operators\, and state government organizations.Jeremy’s responsibilities with NYSERDA include management of contracts associated with approximately 30 complex renewable energy projects in development and being the primary point of contact with internal and external stakeholders related to these projects. Additionally\, Jeremy is a member of the New York State Agricultural Technical Working Group and provides support for the New York State Farmland Projection Working Group on behalf of NYSERDA. Outside of renewables\, Jeremy is a NY Nut Growers Association member with a passion for growing northern-hardy nut trees. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Bacher is the Executive Director of the Land Use Law Center at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. As the Executive Director\, Ms. Bacher’s responsibilities include development and implementation of projects relating to local land use practice\, sustainable communities\, and renewable energy siting\, as well as providing strategic assistance to numerous municipalities. Additionally\, Ms. Bacher serves as a trainer for the Center’s award-winning Land Use Leadership Alliance Training Program.  At Pace Law\, Ms. Bacher serves as an adjunct professor\, teaching Land Use Law\, Sustainable Development Survey\, and the Advanced Land Use and Sustainable Development Seminar. She also administers the Center’s academic programs and guides student research.  \n\n\n\nIn addition\, she is a Clinic Lecturer at Yale School of the Environment\, where she manages the School’s Land Use Clinic. Ms. Bacher served as a member of the Land Use and Local Government Advisory Panel to Climate Action Council\, is a Technical Advisor to NYS Agricultural Technical Working Group (A-TWG) under New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA)\, and was a Land Use Technical Advisor to the NYSERDA Siting Team. Most recently\, Ms. Bacher has been working with NYSERDA on a Planning for Clean Energy Guide for local governments\, a guidebook on Solar Installations on Agricultural Lands\, and an updated Model Solar Energy Law. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing  
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-57-nyserdas-new-dual-use-strategies/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #56: SEIA Explains the U.S. Solar Panel Tariff Investigation and Its Impacts
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear the Solar Energy Industries Association’s Amir Yazdi discuss the anti-dumping tariff investigation on solar panel imports that has caused widespread disruptions to the solar industry. \n\n\n\nNote: This is a special second July webinar happening the second week of the month  \n\n\n\nBackground on the Solar Tariff Investigation:In February\, a small solar module manufacturer filed a petition with the Department of Commerce seeking to impose anti-dumping duties on solar imports from Cambodia\, Malaysia\, Thailand\, and Vietnam. Commerce’s decision to initiate the investigation left solar panel imports vulnerable to retroactive tariffs of up to 250%. \n\n\n\nThe possibility of retroactive tariffs on the majority of solar imports froze project construction\, reducing the availability of sites to graze and leading to long-term impacts for graziers. The case caused deployment estimates to be slashed until a Presidential Proclamation delayed the implementation of any potential tariffs until June 2024. \n\n\n\nIt goes without saying that this issue significantly impacts ASGA members. To help us navigate the issue\, Amir Yazdi from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) will present to ASGA members on the tariff case\, impacts\, and next steps. We’ll have a Q&A after his presentation. \n\n\n\nIn preparation for the webinar\, we ask that folks review SEIA’s latest guidance on the tariff case: \n\n\n\n▶️ US Solar Industry Sees Worst Quarter Since 2020 | SEIA \n\n\n\n▶️ President Biden’s Action Saves Solar Jobs\, Invests in American Solar Manufacturing | SEIA \n\n\n\n▶️ Bipartisan Lawmakers Representing Nearly 200 Million Americans Unite Against Solar Tariff Case | SEIA    \n\n\n\nHosts: Kevin Richardson (ASGA)\, ASGA Outreach Coordinator\, and Jonathan Barter\, ASGA Board President \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmir Yazdi: As Deputy General Counsel\, Amir works on SEIA’s consumer protection\, manufacturing\, and international trade initiatives along with providing in-house legal support to the association. Prior to SEIA\, Amir earned his B.S. in Physics from the College of William & Mary and J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-56-seia-explains-the-u-s-solar-panel-tariff-investigation-and-its-impacts/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #55: ASGA's New Solar Grazing Map ~ July 5th at 6 PM EST
DESCRIPTION:Need to find a solar site to graze? Looking for graziers to bring their herds to your solar site?  \n\n\n\nASGA is launching a new version of our Solar Grazing Map to help you. With this tool you can search for farmers who are grazing\, look up solar sites\, and more.  \n\n\n\nAt this month’s webinar\, we are going to show you how to use the map and how to add your listings to it with a live demonstration. Joining us for the call will be Karen Edelstein from FracTracker Alliance\, who built the map\, and Ryan Clover from Maple Creative who worked with Karen and ASGA to develop the map. Ryan will talk to us about the history of the map and why we created it. Then Karen will show us the map and explain its components and how to use it. After that\, we will go over the process for adding your listing to the map and do a live demonstration.  \n\n\n\nThe map also provides the locations for ground-mounted utility-scale and community solar sites across the country based on the latest available data. As part of their membership\, ASGA members will be able to add and update listings for the locations of their farm or solar site. \n\n\n\nHosts: ASGA Outreach Coordinator Kevin Richardson (ASGA) and ASGA Board Member Lexie Hain will be hosting this month’s webinar \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\ncaption for image\n\n\n\nRyan Clover is the founder and digital gardener at Maple Creative and the Designer & Operations Strategist at Halt the Harm Network. Ryan provides creative and communications support for small businesses\, educators\, and non-profits to help them create a website and run a business that they are proud of. Ryan’s work involves developing and launching online courses\, designing websites\, and doing online event production. Previously he was the director of the Durland Alternatives Library at Cornell. He is also a dad\, songwriter\, and budding orchardist. \n\n\n\ncaption for image\n\n\n\nKaren Edelstein is the Eastern Program Coordinator at FracTracker Alliance. Karen’s work with FracTracker involves mapping oil and gas infrastructure and associated community responses\, transitions to clean energy\, and demographics of impacted communities. Primarily she works on oil and gas development issues along the East Coast. Karen has been using GIS for environmental conservation and landscape planning since 1999. Prior to and while working with FracTracker\, she has contributed her mapping expertise to county and municipal governments\, land trusts\, environmental groups\, and grassroots community organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith special thanks to our sponsor:\n\n\n\ncaption for image\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?Please consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-55-asgas-new-solar-grazing-map-july-5th-at-6-pm-est/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #54: Cornell Solar Sheep Update with Pollinator and Vegetation Experts
DESCRIPTION:The folks from Cornell are back with the latest updates on their ongoing solar grazing research project. Professors John Losey\, an insect scientist\, and Antonio DiTommaso\, a weed scientist\, will lead us through the latest results of research on solar grazing\, with a particular focus on grazing’s impacts on pollinators and vegetation. \n\n\n\nWe expect they’ll have some exciting new findings and insights to share with us. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nHosts: Kevin Richardson (ASGA)\, your ASGA Outreach Coordinator\, and Warren Sakey\, the Renewable Development Manager at Invenergy and an ASGA Advisory Board Member. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\nEvents 9\n\n\n\nJohn Losey is a professor in Cornell’s Department of Entomology. His research\, teaching and outreach interests all revolve around the management of insect populations\, with a focus on the management of pest insect populations and the management of endangered or declining insect populations. He works to educate others on the importance of insect biodiversity and conservation. \n\n\n\nEvents 10\n\n\n\nToni DiTommaso is Professor and Chair in the School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section. His research aims to study and gain a more in depth understanding of the basic biological/ecological principles governing agricultural and environmental weed population dynamics that ultimately lead to the development and implementation of safe\, effective\, sustainable and economically viable weed management strategies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?Please consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-54-cornell-solar-sheep-update-with-pollinator-and-vegetation-experts/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #53: Presenting the New Solar Grazing Contract Template
DESCRIPTION:Pace Law’s Food and Beverage Law Clinic has been working hard these last few months to update ASGA’s solar grazing contract template based on member feedback. At this month’s webinar\, Pace Law’s Gina Hervey\, Andie D’Angelo\, and Jonathan Brown will present the final revised contract and answer your questions about it. \n\n\n\nThe original contract was developed in partnership between ASGA and the Pace Law team in 2018. It has been a valuable resource for ASGA members\, as well as non-members. The goal of revising the contract was to take the experience of ASGA’s membership and remove parts that turned out be unnecessary or clunky\, add in missing elements and clauses\, and streamline the template to make it more adaptable to different grazing circumstances.  \n\n\n\nAs a result\, there is now one contract that covers all vegetation management. It is organized as a template for a Master Services Agreement (MSA) and corresponding Statements of Work (SOW) specific to each site a sheep grazer has with one solar company. \n\n\n\nWe’re excited to share the final product with you. \n\n\n\nWe want to thank everyone who participated in the feedback sessions on the contract or submitted written input to the Pace Law folks. ASGA members have provided excellent suggestions and edits based on their experience working with the contract\, and your contributions have helped the Pace Law team really improve the template.  \n\n\n\nHosts & Co-hosts: Kevin Richardson (ASGA)\, ASGA’s outreach coordinator\, will be your host\, and your co-host will be Ryan Kelliher\, a Program Manager at Nexamp Energy and an ASGA Board Member. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\nEvents 11\n\n\n\nJonathan Brown is a Professor of Law at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law and the Director of Pace’s Food and Beverage Law Clinic. The Clinic provides pro bono legal services to small farms\, food and beverage entrepreneurs\, and nonprofit organizations on matters including business formation\, land access\, contract negotiation\, and other transactional legal matters. He received his law degree from New York University School of Law. Jon resides in Nyack\, NY. He currently serves on the board of directors of NOFA-NY. \n\n\n\nEvents 12\n\n\n\nGina Hervey is a second-year law student at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law studying food and agriculture law. Gina is on the Board of the National Food Law Student Network\, the Director of Food and Agriculture for Pace’s Environmental Law Society\, and a Junior Associate for Pace International Law Review. Before law school Gina worked for a nonprofit solar company providing affordable solar to low-income communities and worked on several agroecology farms. Growing up on a farm in Northern California\, Gina is thrilled to be part of the Food and Beverage Law Clinic building a more environmentally resilient and just food system. \n\n\n\nEvents 13\n\n\n\nAndie D’Angelo is a third-year student at Pace Law pursuing a J.D. with an advanced certificate in Environmental Law. Prior to law school\, she attended New York University where she studied the history of the environmental justice movement. At Pace\, Andie is an Editor of the Environmental Law Review and an active member of the Food and Beverage Law Clinic. She has a passion for food law and justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith thanks to our sponsor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing 
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-53-presenting-the-new-solar-grazing-contract-template/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #52: MNL on the Benefits of Solar Grazing for Soil Health and Carbon Sequestration
DESCRIPTION:Audrey Lomax and Tom Karas of Minnesota Native Landscapes (MNL) will lead a panel discussion on the results of their exciting new soil carbon research on solar grazing and ecosystem improvement showing how solar grazing improves soil quality and carbon sequestration as well as positively impacting plant biodiversity and pollinators. Audrey will discuss MNL’s current work with solar grazing\, while Tom and Sujith Ravi from Temple University will break down the results of the soil carbon study and how they conducted it. They’ll be joined by Jeremy Gilbertson and Jake Janski\, also from MNL\, who will discuss their study on managed grazing’s impact on pollinator plant health. Finally\, James McCall from NREL will report on their ongoing research on vegetation at three solar sites in Minnesota \n\n\n\nThe solar carbon study was conducted jointly by MNL\, Temple University\, Enel\, and NREL. \n\n\n\n→ Read the full report here \n\n\n\nHosts: Hosting this month’s webinar are Kevin Richardson (ASGA)\, ASGA’s Outreach Coordinator\, and Michael MacDonald\, the farm manager of Churchtown Dairy and an ASGA Advisory Board Member. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\nEvents 14\n\n\n\nAudrey Lomax\, MNL is the Grazing Manager at MNL. She is a food systems professional who focuses on ecological livestock grazing and has a passion for education. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEvents 15\n\n\n\nDr. Sujith Ravi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Science at Temple University. He is a broadly trained environmental scientist interested in understanding the impacts of land use change and disturbances (natural and anthropogenic) on ecohydrological processes in terrestrial ecosystems\, in the context of land degradation. Dr. Ravi is currently investigating the environmental impacts (on land and water resources) of large-scale solar infrastructures and exploring opportunities for integrating solar projects with agriculture/range/biofuels. The goal is to facilitate low-impact renewable energy designs by exploring the feasibility of agricultural/range co-location  or “Agrivoltaics” opportunities at multiple test sites.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEvents 16\n\n\n\nTom Karas is the Business Development Specialist at MNL. After ten years dedicated to constructing solar projects of all kinds in the Midwest\, Tom came to MNL to help expand the footprint of the premier solar vegetation company in the Midwest. Originally from Michigan and Central Michigan University\, Tom came to the bright solar landscape in MN in 2010 to continue a career in clean energy. Working out of an old farmhouse on the edge of the prairie with a spunky Golden Retriever\, Mack\, and wife Katy; Tom enjoys anything outside including gardening\, hunting\, fishing\, and riding his fat tire bike through the soybean fields and trails. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEvents 17\n\n\n\nJeremy Gilbertson is a Development Specialist with MNL working in the next generation of MNL to seek new opportunities to heal the earth. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEvents 18\n\n\n\nJake Janski As MNL’s longest tenured employee\, Jake is invaluable resource and highly regarded throughout the restoration industry. Jake has written and implemented hundreds of studies\, restoration strategies\, and vegetation management plans throughout his career. He regularly shares his knowledge of over 20 years in the ecological restoration industry through guest lectures\, seminars\, and speaking engagements. In managing MNL’s field service divisions (Construction\, Vegetation Management\, Conservation Grazing\, and Red Rock Fire)\, Jake applies his broad spectrum of experiences to successful restoration and management of our region’s plant communities and natural resources. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEvents 19\n\n\n\nJames McCall is member of the Resources and Sustainability Group in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center at NREL. His interests include techno-economic analyses for various renewable technologies\, economic and employment impacts\, and systems analysis associated with the energy-water-food-nexus. Prior work experience was as a researcher at a utility law think tank at ASU and a project manager/facilities engineer for an upstream oil and gas producer \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWith special thanks to our sponsor\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-52-mnl-on-the-benefits-of-solar-grazing-for-soil-health-and-carbon-sequestration/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #51: Learn about Federal Agrovoltaics Research and Programs
DESCRIPTION:Zachary Eldredge will be joining us from the US Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to discuss the government’s agrovoltaics programs and recent developments in agrovoltaics engineering. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\nEvents 20\n\n\n\n\n\nZachary Eldredge is a Technology Manager for the Strategic Analysis and Institutional Support team\, joining SETO in June 2019.  \n\n\n\nHis projects are focused on finding innovative ways to manage land-use of solar energy\, including innovative siting solutions such as combining solar energy and agricultural production. In collaboration with National Laboratories and SETO’s sister offices in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy\, Zach works to improve models that are important in understanding the growth and operation of solar energy and to conduct and assist in analysis relating to decarbonization of the electric grid and wider energy system.  \n\n\n\nPrior to joining SETO\, he was a Ph.D. student and researcher at the University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute. There\, he studied quantum information\, quantum computing\, and atomic physics. His thesis concerned how quantum entanglement could be generated\, distributed\, and then used to perform novel tasks in sensing\, computing\, and communication.  \n\n\n\nPrior to his Ph.D.\, Zach attended the University of Oklahoma\, where he received a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Mathematics. Prior to that\, he grew up on a small cattle ranch in Northeastern Oklahoma. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHosts\n\n\n\n\n\nEvents 21\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Richardson (ASGA) is ASGA’s Outreach Coordinator. He was born in Texas and grew up in the Southern California desert. His background is in environmental advocacy and community organizing\, and works to support nonprofits and businesses focused on sustainability. He has a Ph.D. in the environmental history of Japan from UCLA. He lives in Dallas\, TX with his wife and two young kids and enjoys running and reading. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvents 22\n\n\n\n\n\nJudy St Leger is the new Executive Director of the American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA). She grew up in New York State and graduated from the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. For the past 30 years\, she’s enjoyed a brilliant career as a veterinary pathologist traveling the globe teaching and working on wildlife health. In 2009\, she and her husband\, Marc purchased a small\, historic farm in the Mohawk River Valley of New York. They have been restoring the farm and raising grass-fed lamb and breeding stock to enhance the American lamb market. Income from the sheep pays for the farm restoration. \n\n\n\nIn 2018\, Judy had her first foray into solar grazing when she partnered with another local farmer to manage  vegetation on a small array. That enterprise led her to meet Lexie Hain and one thing led to another as they tend to do. Judy’s a founding member of ASGA. She sees solar grazing and agrivoltaics  as a way to keep solar farms farming. With the challenges facing the dairy industry in the northeast\, shifting to sheep might just be a way to save some farm families. In addition to shepherding\, Judy spends time riding horses and promoting her community’s rich history and exciting present. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWith special thanks to our sponsor:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram\n\n\n\n@asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-51-learn-about-federal-agrovoltaics-research-and-programs/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #50:  Large-Site Solar Grazing at Topaz Solar Farm
DESCRIPTION:For this month’s webinar\, we’re heading west to hear all about grazing at the 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farm in San Luis Obispo County\, CA. Katie Brown from Althouse and Meade\, Inc will talk about the development of this unique project\, which was at the time of its completion the largest solar project in the world with over 9 million panels and producing enough electricity to power 160\,000 homes. She’ll join the site’s grazier\, Frankie Iturriria\, who will talk about his experience grazing at the site and the challenges and opportunities that come with large-site solar grazing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: NASA Earth Observatory\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Brown is a Certified Rangeland Manager\, plant and animal scientist who works for Althouse and Meade\, Inc. in Paso Robles California. Katie and her husband live on a small farm in San Miguel\, California with their two kids and raise painted desert sheep. \n\n\n\nShe earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science with a minor in Rangeland Resource Management from California Polytechnic State University\, San Luis Obispo. While earning her Master of Science degree in Animal and Range Sciences from Montana State University\, Bozeman; she completed research on cattle grazing behavior and invasive weed management.  \n\n\n\nKatie currently manages grazing programs at two large solar farms in California: Topaz Solar Farm and California Flats Solar Farm. Katie provides consultation to solar farms throughout the U.S. to develop restoration\, vegetation management\, and grazing programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvents 23\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Iturriria is a first-generation born sheep producer from Bakersfield\, CA. His parents\, Paco and Maria Luisa\, immigrated from the Basque region of Spain in search of a better life.  \n\n\n\nFrankie is involved in production agriculture. He raises Rambouillet ewes in the Wasco\, CA area under the name of I & M Sheep Company. I & M Sheep has been in operation since 1958. Frankie also has a full-time job working for Grimmway Farms in Bakersfield. He is a Farm Manager and manages around 5\,000 acres of vegetable production\, mainly carrots and potatoes. \n\n\n\nFrankie graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a B.S. Degree in Agricultural Business. Frankie married the love of his life\, Renee\, in 2007; and together\, they have a pair of twin boys\, Adrian and Marcos. He hopes to one day pass the love of sheep along to them\, just like his father did to him. \n\n\n\nFrankie has been a member of the Resource Council for the last few years and is currently on the Public Lands council for ASI. He is also a board member of the CA Woolgrowers Association and served as President from 2013-2015.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith special thanks to our sponsor:\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWant to help support ASGA’s mission?\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPlease consider donating to ASGA in 2022 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram @asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-50-large-site-solar-grazing-at-topaz-solar-farm/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #49:  HAWAII: Community Solar & Solar Grazing
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Nexamp’s @Julie Beauchemin will present Community Solar Development in Hawaii and Olsen Enterprise’s Raia Olsen reports on Solar Grazing in Hawaii \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nKeith Hevenor\, Director of Communications at Nexamp will introduce Nexamp’s work with ASGA in 2021.   \n\n\n\nDirector of Business Development  @Julie Beauchamin at Nexamp will introduce both how community solar and community solar development works\, then discuss the status of community solar laws and policy in Hawaii.   Julie will share about several Hawaiian Nexamp projects.  \n\n\n\nRaia Olsen was born and raised on the north shore of Oahu.  After graduating from college\, she married Daniel Olsen and founded Oahu Grazers.   Oahu grazers is a solar sheep grazing business.  Oahu Grazers also raises grass-finished beef.  Oahu Grazers has mentored other farmers in Hawaii as the learn to solar graze.  Raia will present the case for solar grazing with photos of the work they’ve done in the past few years.  Oahu Grazers can be reached through our network or at oahugrazers@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith thanks to our sponsor \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHosted by:\n\n\n\nDutch Barn Farm‘s Judy St Leger.  DVM\, Texel breeder\, ASGA founding board members and solar grazier\, Dr Judy will host the ASGA webinar.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMore about our presenters and the busy solar scene in Hawaii:\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRead more on solar & agriculture in Hawaii.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAnnouncing: \n\n\n\nASGA’s First Photo Contest.  Learn more and apply here:Last call: ASGA has board & advisory board positions available.  APPLY HERE. Membership meeting will be held Sunday\, Feb 13\, 2022.  Positions will be announced at the meeting. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nplease donate to ASGA in 2022 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nfind us on Instagram at asga_solargrazing \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nthank you!
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-49-hawaii-community-solar-solar-grazing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T180000
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #48:  Solar Grazing: Scaling Agrivoltaics and Associated Ecosystem Services
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Silicon Ranch’s Michael Baute & Loran Shallenberger will present their Regenerative Energy programs and Churchtown Dairy farm manager Michael MacDonald reports on Solar Grazing and Water Quality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nMichael MacDonald\, Farm Manager at Churchtown Dairy\, a regenerative farm\, and ASGA Advisor.  Working in the Hudson River Valley of New York State at a grazing dairy\, with background in science and policy\, he came to ASGA with an in land management at solar facilities.   ASGA was awarded funding to conduct a literature review on grazing and freshwater quality\, with a focus on solar grazing. Mike spearheaded the literature review & report  Animal Grazing Impacts on Water Quality at Solar Electric Generation Sites.  The report will be released on December 1. \n\n\n\nMichael Baute and Loran Shallenberger at Silicon Ranch. Michael is the Director of Regenerative Energy and Land Management for Silicon Ranch Corporation\, where Loran is a project manager.   Silicon Ranch Corporation is a grantee of the 2020 Department of Energy awards for Solar & Agriculture.  \n\n\n\nMichael & Loran’s presentation will cover: Silicon Ranch’s current utility-scale agrivoltiacs platform\, Regenerative Energy\, and their new R&D efforts funded by the Department of Energy\, which is focused on holistic managed cattle grazing under solar and a new ecosystem service quantification methodology for various solar land management strategies.  They will present Scaling Agrivoltaics and associated Ecosystem Services- From R&D to Commercialization.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith thanks to our sponsor Hecate Energy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about  Our Presenters: \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMichael MacDonald is the farm manager at Churchtown Dairy.  Churchtown is a registered not for profit\, community center\, educational center\, and foremost  a 250 acre regenerative dairy in the Hudson River Valley\, New York State.  Michael MacDonald graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Science and Technology Studies and Government and at Moreau Seminary at the University of Notre Dame and received a Masters of Divinity from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.  He worked in science policy development at the International Center for Technology Assessment and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.    Michael is currently the farm manager of Churchtown Dairy\, a center for regenerative agriculture in Hudson\, NY.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Baute and Loran Shallenberger direct and manage the regenerative energy programs at Silicon Ranch.  \n\n\n\nSilicon Ranch developed standards for solar plant operations that are “Nature-based\, data-driven\, and community focused” through their Regenerative Energy Program.   Silicon Ranch Corporation was an awardee of the Department of Energy  2020 Solar & Agriculture Awards. Their project name: Integrated PV System Design and Management Platform for the Co-Optimization of Regenerative Cattle Grazing and PV Solar Generation.  Read more here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbrought to you by  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nplease donate to ASGA this holiday season \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfind us on Instagram at asga_solargrazing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nthank you!
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-48-solar-grazing-scaling-agrivoltaics-and-associated-ecosystem-services/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T180000
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #47: Solar sheep and soil health\, plus American Farmland Trust talks agrivoltaics research
DESCRIPTION:Join Hosts Daniel Finnegan and Lexie Hain as they talk with American Farmland Trust-New England and the New Mexico Healthy Soils Working Group. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith thanks to our sponsor & longtime collaborators at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University:  Special guest Law Professor Jonathan Brown\, Director of the Food and Beverage Law Clinic at the Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law.  His Clinic has collaborated with ASGA in the creation of the Solar Grazing and Solar Beekeeping Contracts.  Jon will join us for a brief update on the plan for spring collaborations between ASGA & the Law Clinic. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nhttps://law.pace.edu/\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Speakers: Join American Farmland Trust-New England‘s  Emily Cole\, Deputy Director\, and Ethan Winter\, Northeast Solar Specialist as they provide a brief overview of American Farmland Trust and AFT’s work in dual-use/agrivoltaics/siting in the Northeast and then dive in on the DOE funded research AFT is involved with in Massachusetts with UMass Amherst that they hope will inform best practices for future agrivoltaic projects.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowed by Isabelle Jenniches \, Co-Founder of the New Mexico Healthy Soils Working Group will present on soil health stewardship. Based in New Mexico\, this group has focused on healthy soil policies.  Now their work has expanded to include food systems and support their region’s sheep economy.   Solar grazing fits into their mission of business opportunities within a regenerative economy. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about Presenters Emily\,  Ethan and Isabelle:\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEthan serves at AFT’s Northeast Solar Specialist where he helps set and implement AFTs strategy for solar energy generation and farmland conservation. Prior to joining AFT\, Ethan Winter worked as Project Developer and Senior Community Engagement Manager for Cypress Creek Renewables\, an integrated solar and storage company with a 1.6 GW solar fleet spanning 14 states. In this role\, Winter led community outreach strategy and helped to secure zoning approvals for a $100 million+ portfolio of community distributed generation (2-5 MWac) solar projects in New York and Massachusetts. Winter also brings a background in program development\, natural climate solutions\, and conservation practices\, having led the Land Trust Alliance’s flagship New York Program for 13 years prior to his shift to the solar sector. Ethan earned a Master of Forestry at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and attended Bowdoin College. \n\n\n\nDr. Emily Cole is New England Deputy Director and leads American Farmland Trust’s Climate and Agriculture Program here in the region. In this role\, she works both to improve and advocate for the integration of climate smart management practices into New England’s productive farming communities through education\, outreach\, and policy. In this capacity\, Emily has testified to the US House of Representatives’ Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition on the importance of improving soil health for climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture\, as well as the management practices that are fundamental to building soil health. Emily led AFT’s Smart Solar Siting partnership – a project focused on advancing smart solar siting policies and programs in New England states. Emily has her Ph.D. in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, where her research focused on improving soil health and carbon sequestration though the application of biochar and implementation of climate-smart management practices. She also earned her Master’s degree in Science Education from Boston University\, and her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Kenyon College. \n\n\n\nIsabelle Jenniches is a skilled community organizer with experience in policy and farmer-to-farmer education. Drawing from her background in theater and design\, she takes care of communications and outreach as well as program development. \n\n\n\nSummers spent at her grandparents’ small farm in the Eifel region of Germany instilled in Isabelle a deep love for an agrarian way of life. Moving to the US in 2005\, she started a community garden\, studied organic agriculture and permaculture and worked at a fifth generation family farm in California before coming to New Mexico. \n\n\n\nIsabelle was involved with the CA Healthy Soil Program as part of the California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN). At the Ecological Farming Association (EcoFarm) she established the organization’s regenerative agriculture initiative and helped coordinate the annual EcoFarm Conference\, bringing together ~1\,800 food system stakeholders from across the US and internationally. \n\n\n\nShe represents the Working Group on the National Healthy Soils Policy Network and serves on the board of the farmer veterans organization Not Forgotten Outreach in Taos and the NM Food & Agriculture Policy Council. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith thanks to Daniel Finnegan\, Solar Shepherd LLC for hosting this webinar \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nfind us on Instagram at asga_solargrazing
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-47-solar-sheep-and-soil-health-plus-american-farmland-trust-talks-agrivoltaics-research/
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #46: ASGA Talks about Overcoming Adversity in Solar Grazing
DESCRIPTION:Join the ASGA Board of Directors in a live panel event. Board members will share stories of their experiences getting their first contracts to graze\, gathering flocks\, and other challenges of our business. Our presenter Board Members will take questions. \n\n\n\nPresented by: \n\n\n\nJudy St LegerDaniel FinneganLewis FoxTrent Hendricks??Caleb ScottLexie HainJonathan Barter\n\n\n\nModerated and hosted by: Daniel Dotterer\, Pennsylvania farmer & ASGA Member \n\n\n\nDan Dotterer\, our host\n\n\n\nWe will also be joined by: \n\n\n\nLarissa McKenna of FACT\, the Food Animal Concerns Trust. Larissa will share FACT’s fall farmer grant and programming opportunities with us. Bring your questions and ideas! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfind us on Instagram at asga_solargrazing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith thanks to our sponsor
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-46-asga-talks-about-overcoming-adversity-in-solar-grazing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210901T180000
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SUMMARY:ASGA Webinar #45: Oregon State NEWAg Lab
DESCRIPTION:Oregon State’s NEWAg Lab presents their Agrivoltaics Work\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJoin Oregon State University’s NEWAg Lab  for a virtual introduction to their research on agrivoltaic systems! The NEWAg (Nexus of Energy\, Water\, and Agriculture) Lab\, studies the physical\, operational and geospatial connections in the energy-water-food nexus. NEWAg been studying agrivolatic (solar + agricutlure) systems since 2016\, with projects spanning livestock pastures\, pollinator habitats\, vegetable production\, and follow farmlands. Their current research looks at changes in pasture nutrition\, lamb weight gains\, pollinator plant phenology and weed suppression in agrivoltaics. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Professor Chad Higgins and Graduate Student Alyssa Andrew return to ASGA to present the updates from the NEWAg Laboratory \n\n\n\nASGA Hosts: Erica Frenay\, ASGA Board and Lexie Hain\, ASGA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nall photos credit NEWAg Lab Oregon State \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join ASGA to support our work \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n with thanks to our sponsor
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-webinar-45-oregon-state-newag-lab/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T180000
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SUMMARY:ASGA Webinar #44: Solar Grazing with Nexamp & Texas Native Seeds talks solar
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE JOIN US FOR TWO PRESENTATIONS\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Nexamp’s Ryan Kelliher Solar Grazing: The On-Ramp to Agrivoltaics  \n\n\n\n& \n\n\n\nNative Seeds for Texas Solar Projects? A proposal for solar by East Texas Native Seeds\, presented by Tyler Wayland  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nASGA hosts: Caleb Scott of Scott Land Yard Group; VP of ASGA & Lexie Hain  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTERS \n\n\n\nRyan Kelliher\,  Program Manager\, Research & Innovation\, Nexamp \n\n\n\nRyan started his solar career building and installing dual-axis trackers in Vermont and New Hampshire. In 2018 he moved to Boston and joined Nexamp as O&M Manager\, responsible for the day-to-day operations of more than 200 solar sites\, including several thousand acres worth of ground-mounted arrays. After several years of overseeing vegetation management\, Ryan got in touch with ASGA and together they set up a pilot grazing program on two sites in NY. Since then\, Nexamp has expanded their grazing program to nearly 500 acres across multiple states and continues to invest in co-location efforts across the growing fleet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n& \n\n\n\nTyler Wayland \, Assistant Director\, East Texas \n\n\n\nTyler Wayland joined theTexas Native Seeds Program and the East Texas Natives project in February 2018. Tyler graduated from Texas A&M University- Kingsville with a B.S. in Agribusiness- Ranch Management.  His time in Kingsville gave him the unique opportunity to work as a technician with South Texas Natives\, and it was with this project that Tyler developed a clear understanding of the Texas Native Seeds mission and his passion for native habitat reclamation and restoration. Tyler’s work experience also includes time with an erosion control company in Houston\, Texas\, and five years of service in the United States Navy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTexas Native Seeds and East Texas Natives- Areas for Potential Research Focus (Solar).pdf\n\n\n\nPlease click on the document title above for the potential solar research opportunity. This will be discussed by Tyler Wayland.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWith thanks to Nexamp for your gold sponsorship of ASGA
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-webinar-44-solar-grazing-with-nexamp-texas-native-seeds-talks-solar/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210707T180000
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SUMMARY:ASGA Call #43: North Carolina Solar Grazing
DESCRIPTION:North Carolina Solar Grazing: Highlights and Lessons from the team at NC Choices +  Carolina Solar Services\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by\n\n\n\nLee Menius\, Technical Program Coordinator\, NC Choices & Johnny Rogers\, Amazing Grazing Program\, Center for Environmental Farming Systems \n\n\n\n& \n\n\n\nBrock Phillips Livestock  Manager & Zach Hobbes\, CEO at Carolina Solar Services \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith ASGA Hosts Daniel Finnegan of Solar Shepherd LLC and Lexie Hain \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Beginning Farmer Project produced Solar Grazing Budget by NC Choices Team. Participating farmers received support and training in the form of: \n\n\n\nTechnical support from a team of subject matter experts from North Carolina State University\,North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University\, and the Center for EnvironmentalFarming Systems to help design best management plans for your herd on that land.Lease templates and technical assistance from NC State’s land-law attorney to support the successful development of long term leases.And more- it was a successful program. Join us on the evening of July 7 to hear about it and ask your questions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored and with thanks to
URL:https://solargrazing.org/event/asga-call-43-north-carolina-solar-grazing/
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