How the oil capital of the US welcomed a solar power boom
Then a storm rolled through and destroyed them overnight."I remember my son saying, 'Dad, I just don't know if I can do this. You do everything right, and we work so hard, and you come out one morning and it's all gone'," Cargil says.Cargil's farm was at risk of ending with him, he says, with none of his three children wanting to farm full time. Looking back now, he calls it a blessing.The lease, which pays Cargil $200,000 (£150,000) a year, has let him keep his farm running through a punishing drought.
- ▪Then a storm rolled through and destroyed them overnight."I remember my son saying, 'Dad, I just don't know if I can do this.
- ▪You do everything right, and we work so hard, and you come out one morning and it's all gone'," Cargil says.Cargil's farm was at risk of ending with him, he says, with none of his three children wanting to farm full time.
- ▪Looking back now, he calls it a blessing.The lease, which pays Cargil $200,000 (£150,000) a year, has let him keep his farm running through a punishing drought.
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How the oil capital of the US welcomed a solar power boomImage source, Steve CargilImage caption, Farmer Steve Cargil is now paid $200,000 a year for hosting a solar farm on his landByNathalie JimenezBusiness reporterPublished7 minutes agoSteve Cargil's family has farmed the flat, dry land around Uvalde, a small city in southwest Texas, since 1953.Cargil, 67, had always assumed that one of his three children would eventually take it over, the way he had from his father.But that assumption took a hit one night in 2018 after a violent hailstorm.Cargil and his son, Ryan, had spent months nursing crops of cabbage and onions to harvest. Then a storm rolled through and destroyed them overnight."I remember my son saying, 'Dad, I just don't know if I can do this.
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