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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...