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There are nearly 11 million acres of cropland in Ohio.
If all the utility-scale solar projects approved by or in the Ohio Power Siting Board queue get built, they& #39;ll take up just over 71,000 acres.
So that would be .64% of cropland in Ohio.
If all the utility-scale solar projects approved by or in the Ohio Power Siting Board queue get built, they& #39;ll take up just over 71,000 acres.
So that would be .64% of cropland in Ohio.
Some other fun facts about acreage in Ohio.
More than 85,000 acres of farmland have been preserved through the Ohio Department of Agriculture& #39;s Farmland Preservation program since 2002
More than 85,000 acres of farmland have been preserved through the Ohio Department of Agriculture& #39;s Farmland Preservation program since 2002
From 2001 to 2016, about 312,000 acres of farmland were lost to urban/residential development, according to American Farmland Trust.
About 485,000 acres of Ohio farmland is foreign-owned, according to the USDA& #39;s Foreign Holdings of U.S. Agricultural Land report. That was as of the end of 2019.
