Farmland articles
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More countryside and farmland lost to development
The amount of untouched countryside and woods in the Netherlands declined some 2.5% in the ten years to 2022 to make way for new housing, roads and industry, national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. But proportionally more agricultural land was also ploughed up for building projects, the agency said. In total, the space covered by housing, infrastructure and industry expanded 3.4% or 277 square kilometres between 2013 and 2022, of which 178 square kilometres used to be agricultural land. ...
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The dark side of solar power: Some of America's most productive farmland is at risk
Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery—land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar, for one of the largest solar developments in the Midwest. On that blustery spring afternoon in 2022, Duttlinger said, his phone rang with questions from frustrated...
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Bid for major new housing development on farmland on western edge of Derry city
The developers have applied for permission to build over 250 houses and apartments on a large site at numbers 42 and 44 on the Springtown Road immediately west of Derrymore and St. Eithne’s Park. If approved by Derry City & Strabane District Council, the development will be the most westerly housing scheme in Derry city proper. The plans include provision of a new community centre, a large green space in the centre of the estate and a play park. A design statement, prepared by Park Hood...