agricultural land conversion -

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

On 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…