{"id":447805,"date":"2021-11-06T10:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447805"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:42:14","slug":"bees-sheep-crops-solar-developers-tout-multiple-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bees-sheep-crops-solar-developers-tout-multiple-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees, sheep, crops: Solar developers tout multiple benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confined largely to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed cousin of the sunflower may be poised for a comeback, thanks to solar energy. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers are growing silflower at nine solar installations in the Minneapolis area, testing its potential as an oilseed crop.<\/p>\n<p>The deep-rooted perennial also offers forage for livestock and desperately needed habitat for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a lot of plots spaced pretty far apart to measure silflower&#8217;s effects on pollinators,\u201d said crop scientist Ebony Murrell of The Land Institute, a research nonprofit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confined largely to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed cousin of the sunflower may be poised for a comeback, thanks to solar energy. Researchers are growing silflower at nine solar installations in the Minneapolis area, testing its potential as an oilseed crop. The deep-rooted perennial also offers forage for livestock and desperately needed habitat for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. \u201cWe need a lot of plots spaced pretty far apart to measure silflower&#8217;s effects on pollinators,\u201d said crop scientist Ebony Murrell of The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}