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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'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'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's Farmland Preservation program since 2002
More than 85,000 acres of farmland have been preserved through the Ohio Department of Agriculture'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's Foreign Holdings of U.S. Agricultural Land report. That was as of the end of 2019.
