An Ohio farmer facing $1 million in medical debt hoped a solar lease would pay $540,000 a year; after officials blocked the project, he had to sell land and equipment from his sixth-generation farm
An Ohio farmer facing $1 million (£750,000) in medical bills had to sell land and farm machinery from his family farm after local officials blocked a solar energy project on his property. Wayne Greier, a sixth-generation farmer in Mahoning County, Ohio, planned to lease 600 acres of his farmland to a solar development company in…