Hello Reader, The ASGA Team attended this year's RE+ renewable energy conference and made a big splash with a live sheep display and the world premiere of our solar grazing documentary film! With 45,000 people attending this year's conference, we wanted to make sure folks had a chance to see and understand the benefits of building strong partnerships with solar graziers. To open the show on Monday, we premiered the first ever solar grazing documentary to a packed audience and everyone loved...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, ASGA is bringing the sheep to this year's RE+ solar industry convention! We'll be premiering the first ever solar grazing short documentary at the event and bringing our farmers' stories to the heart of the solar industry. If you're attending, please register to attend the premiere (it's free!). If you've already registered (go you!), then please share the link with your friends and colleagues. The first 100 guests to arrive will receive a special gift:...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, How can solar companies best plan vegetation and soil management to be good stewards of the land and support agrivoltaics? This topic is important for the present and future of solar development. Getting it wrong can impact soil & water and create local community issues, among others. Join us for this month’s ASGA call with Rob Schultz from Invenergy’s Vegetation Management team. Rob will discuss how they develop their vegetation and soil management plans and set up a project...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, The recording for our October call (#71) on sheep health in solar systems is now available. We had an in-depth discussion with our panel of veterinary and solar grazing experts about everything you need to know about managing sheep health on solar sites. If you're an ASGA Member, you can access the replay on our network. Sign in to the network to watch the full replay for: What You Need to Know About Sheep Health in Solar Systems. Not a member but interested in more recordings...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, For our September Teatime, we invited experienced farmers and sheep experts from different parts of the country to talk about how to find the right sheep for your operation and region. Here's a 5-minute clip from the event with Brad Carothers (New Slate Land Management) sharing what genetic traits solar graziers are looking for when they come to him for sheep. He explains his thoughts on how to select traits for solar grazing operations: Click on the image or this link to watch...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, We know solar energy has a substantial impact on reducing carbon pollution, but how does combining sheep farming and solar energy increase the environmental benefits of both solar and agriculture? Join us for ASGA's August webinar as we explore this question with experts studying both the environmental benefits of solar grazing and the emissions impacts of sheep farming. We’ve invited Robert Handler and Joshua Pearce to discuss their exciting new paper analyzing the benefits of...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, We've invited NREL's Jordan Macknick and James McCall to give us a long overdue update on NREL's agrivoltaics research projects, which are run through their InSPIRE project. NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), has quite a few projects cooked up right now. So we asked them to tell us about some particularly exciting tools that we think ASGA folks would be interested in. Those include: their new agrivoltaics map, the agrivoltaics financial calculator, and their...
almost 2 years ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, Note: This webinar will take place on Tuesday, June 6th instead of the normal first Wednesday Join 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. Silicon 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...
almost 2 years ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, 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. Erosion control products are often required to stabilize weak soil on renewable energy sites and other large environmental projects. Long-term, this may create an innovative and creative opportunity for growing wool on solar sites and using the wool products for erosion control and soil...
almost 2 years ago • 2 min read
