Could This Mobile, Solar-Powered Livestock Barn Reshape the Corn Belt?

Photo caption: Zack Smith with the ClusterCluck 5,000. Photo courtesy of the Iowa Farm Bureau. Article by Twilight Greenaway. Civil Eats – February 13, 2023.

Last August, Zack Smith welcomed a group of farmers, agricultural researchers, and investors to his mid-sized farm just south of the Iowa-Minnesota border for a field day. It was warm out, shorts weather, and around 35 people sat on straw bales listening as the young, fifth-generation farmer—who has gained a devoted audience through Twitter and YouTube and welcomes curious visitors to his farm every year—spoke about a critical turning point in his thinking. […]

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