A Massachusetts farmer has put 832 tracking solar panels over his crops. The land now grows food, electricity and extra farm income all at once

• The Massachusetts project is an example of agrivoltaics, a nascent farming practice that combines agriculture with solar energy generation on the same land.
• Farmers have relied on sunshine to grow healthy crops for generations.
• But as they say, excess of anything is bad and with climate change causing hotter summers, longer droughts and erratic weather, too much sun has now become a problem too.