Volume
62
Issue
3
Abstract
This article describes a series of spreadsheet-based tools to help farmers estimate costs, revenues, and yields from agricultural production under different configurations of agrivoltaic installations for field and perennial crops. Crop-specific log books allow farmers to project changes in activity-level costs from the field due to agrivoltaic installations. The whole-farm tool helps farmers aggregate activity-level net returns up to the farm level to calculate projections of trade-offs between crop production with or without agrivoltaic installations. We present tools for lettuce and cranberries, but the tools are comprehensive and inclusive and so can be modified for other perennial and field crops.
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Recommended Citation
Fitzsimmons, J., & Kim, T. (2024). Agrivoltaic Decision Tools for Perennial and Field Crop Farmers. The Journal of Extension, 62(3), Article 12. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol62/iss3/12
Log Book Tool
WHOLE FARM_Lettuce Agrivoltaic On-Site Cost Tracking Tool_2023 JOE.xlsx (216 kB)
Whole Farm Tool
