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…

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. The original contract was developed in partnership between ASGA and the…

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. We expect they’ll…

Need to find a solar site to graze? Looking for graziers to bring their herds to your solar site? ASGA 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. At this month’s webinar, we…

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. Note: This is a special second July webinar happening the second week of the month  Background on the Solar Tariff Investigation:In February, a small solar module…

NOTE: The August webinar will be held the 2nd Tuesday of month instead of the customary 1st Wednesday For 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,…

What are the possibilities for hay on solar sites? For 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.  The…

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…

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? On 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…

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…

We’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).

Join us for our February webinar with Minnesota Native Landscapes and their research partners on pollinator habitats at solar sites. Pollinator 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.

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? Join 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…

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.  Members can expect to: vote in new board members, meet your leadership team, learn about programming…

What do solar graziers in New England and the Northeast need to know to prepare for grazing at scale? As 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. ASGA Members Alan…

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.  Our speaker will be Rob Ament from Montana State University's Western Transportation Institute. He is pioneering domestic wool…