"Great way to support those family farmers." Farmers urge Americans to embrace previously overlooked type of meat: 'There's really a huge, huge potential' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Sheep graze on a solar farm owned by SB Energy on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Buckholts, Texas. Photo: AP On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep ...

To all the challenges the solar industry is facing today, add one more: cultivating a domestic market for lamb meat. It may seem an unlikely mission for clean-energy developers, but in many states, ...

In a dusty Texas field, Chad Raines surveys his new crop — sheep. "Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that I would be a shepherd," Raines said. The Raines family has farmed cotton for four ...

CHICAGO, March 3 (Reuters) - For the first time in four generations, the Raines family didn't plant a single cotton seed last year. Chad Raines parked his tractor and rented out most of his Texas ...

“It is incredibly hot, the sun is just unavoidable, and the fact that they’ve got shade every 15 feet out here — it’s just the ideal environment, to have shade so close,” he said on a recent hot day.

On a recent morning in rural Hopkins County, Texas, beneath a bright blue sky, a herd of sheep grazed in their favorite spot on a hot day: under the shade of solar panels. The site, a 2,700-acre solar ...

Aside from a late October and a late December snow storm, much of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and eastern portions of North Dakota and South Dakota have enjoyed a mostly snow-free winter thus far. The ...

TOPPING — Looking across the farm track as Trip the border collie nipped at his sheep’s heels, Marcus Gray could tell the grass was ready for them. Unlike the bright green patch of grass lying as ...