A California farm earned about $100 per acre a year from dry-farmed wheat; after Alan Changala leased 300 acres for solar at $1,000 per acre, the same land began paying roughly 10 times the crop income

Global Climate Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:17:11 GMT Moderate confidence — 73/100

Representative imageOn the Changala family farm in Tulare County, California, a dirt road and a barbed-wire fence separate two very different ways of using the same land.
On one side, wheat grows with little irrigation.
On the other, rows of solar panels turn sunlight into electricity for thousands of Southern California homes.

Representative imageOn the Changala family farm in Tulare County, California, a dirt road and a barbed-wire fence separate two very different ways of using the same land.
On one side, wheat grows with little irrigation.
On the other, rows of solar panels turn sunlight into electricity for thousands of Southern California homes.

Sources: Times of India