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Committee backs resolution urging Congress to require solar leases to restore farmland to agriculture
Summary
A landowner-backed resolution asking Arkansas’s congressional delegation to include language in the farm bill that would require solar-leased farmland to revert to agricultural production when leases expire passed the committee after a presentation by Rodney Baker and a brief discussion; members voiced support for investigating federal language to preserve prior-converted wetlands status.
Rodney Baker, representing Holden Conner and speaking for affected landowners in northeast Arkansas, urged the Senate Agriculture Committee to ask the state's congressional delegation to include protections in the farm bill ensuring that land placed under solar leases can be returned to agricultural production when leases end.
"We need something that shows the will of Congress that this land be able to be brought back into…
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