A central Illinois farmer is concerned quality Midwest farmland is being taken over by new wind and solar power infrastructure.

Len Corzine of Assumption, IL tells Brownfield, as legislators create cleaner energy policies, they forget to add in the cost of farmland retirement.

“This is an invasion of the most productive farmland on the planet. In many areas of the Corn Belt, we have the most productive soils in the world and we also have the right climate where we don’t need irrigation, for the most part.

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