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“They’re used to driving around farmland seeing green fields, and now their fields are full of steel,” said Andy Smith, a dairy farmer in Monmouth.

Jefferson farmer and MSAD 11 teacher Michael Dennett is building his sheep grazing operation on agrivoltaics, the practice of using land for both agriculture and solar energy production.

Farmland, with its open fields, southern exposure and well-drained soils, is typically one of the easiest and cheapest places to put a solar project.

Farmland, with its open fields, southern exposure and well-drained soils, is typically one of the easiest and cheapest places to put a solar project.

On an overcast afternoon in early July, Michael Dennett drove to a paddock near midcoast Maine to check on his sheep. They’d been there for a couple of days, and it was almost time to move them to another section of pasture. Dennett, who owns...

Police suspended Michael Dennett’s firearms license, and his firearms and ammunition were seized. Read more at Boston.com.

At solar farms, sheep come back for mower Solar grazing, the practice of using livestock to manage the grass that grows under panel arrays, has come to Maine. Share Sheep fatten up and keep the grass down at Maines first solar grazing project, on Route 2 in Skowhegan. The sheep, from Crescent Run Farm in Jefferson, are working for South Portland-based ReVision Energy, which developed the 10,500-panel project to supply power to five towns. Its an example of how solar developers are trying to fo...

Feb 20, 2021 MIDLAND, MI – Robert Francis Dennett, 88, of Midland, passed away peacefully on February 14, 2021, after a short illness at MidMichigan Medical Center surrounded by his family. He was born the son of Harold and Louise (Gaviglio) Dennett on March 2, 1932, in Marquette, MI. His mother, Louise, passed away unexpectedly when he was eleven, and his father then married Marie Reichel in 1947, who was a wonderful grandmother to Robert’s children. He graduated from Bishop Bara...