JD05AG said:
Unless you have a provision to run sheep, don't do it.
Funny you mention that.
I was talking to a guy several weeks ago and he was bidding on a vegetation control contract for a big solar farm in central Texas.
The solar company was going to pay so much per acre for him to run sheep on the property when the vegetation was growing in order to keep it down. The downside to that was that he had to move them off the property during the fall and winter because the sheep wouldn't have anything to eat.
Also, he mentioned having to buy a side sickle bar cutter that would cut under some elevated panels (I don't know why the sheep wouldn't eat there too), but told me that you couldn't just put 'any jake' on the tractor because if they hit one of the solar panels or the support equipment it would be costly.
I asked him about chemical control of the vegetation and he claimed at the price the solar company was willing to pay you couldn't justify the cost of the herbicides and application.
I don't know if he got the bid. I don't know anything about sheep. And I don't know whether he knew what he was talking about, FWIW.