Texas farmer earns $200,000 yearly by leasing 600 acres for solar panels

Solar leases offer farmers decades of reliable income, helping secure family finances and keep agricultural operations running. For generations, the Cargil family has made a living from the wide, dry farmland surrounding Uvalde in southwest Texas. But farming has never offered much certainty. Weather can erase months of work in a single night, while drought, irrigation limits and rising costs can make even a successful harvest difficult to sustain. For Steve Cargil, a 67-year-old farmer whose family has worked the property since 1953, an unlikely source of stability eventually emerged from the changing energy landscape. Scroll down to read the details.A farm facing an uncertain futureAccording to a BBC report, Cargil once expected one of his three children to eventually take over the operation, just as he had inherited the responsibility from his father. That plan became less certain after a devastating hailstorm in 2018 destroyed cabbage and onion crops that Cargil and his son Ryan had spent months cultivating.The loss exposed how vulnerable the family business had become. None of Cargil's children wanted to farm full time, leaving him to consider not only the future of the proper...