Legislation has been introduced in Congress that would end the federal subsidies incentivizing the development of productive agricultural land for wind and solar energy production.
Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin re-introduced the FARM or Future Agriculture Retention & Maintenance Act would eliminate the large subsidies to developers who install wind and solar generation on productive farmland. “You’re seeing thousands of acres of productive agricultural land in Wisconsin that are being sidelined or are being converted to this energy production.
