Services

Wondering how renewable energy can strengthen agriculture, not compete with it?

• Farmer Benefit Plan design and Farmer Benefit Trust governance

• Farmer Legacy Annuity and other options for local family farm communities to consider

• Farmer impact quantification: verifiable methodology for counting beginning and historically underserved farmer beneficiaries in advance of project approval.

• Benefit scoring and prioritization: proprietary scoring that ranks activities by farmer impact, community credibility, and policy deployability.

• Legislative strategy: Farm Bill engagement, state siting bill analysis, and model county ordinance language ready for adoption.

Are there ways to reduce county-level delays and project cancellations by documenting farmer constituency support? 

• Farmer Benefit Plan design: net present value cost modeling, scenario comparison, and identification of tax offset and USDA program stacking opportunities.

• Community benefit strategy: produces a documented farmer and rural electric cooperative constituency with a genuine economic stake in the project's success.

• Cost vs. permitting risk analysis: quantified comparison of benefit package cost against the expected value of project opposition and typical Good Neighbor Agreement, Community Benefits Agreement, and Labor Benefit Agreement expenditures.

• Priority market analysis: identifying where agricultural community openness, renewable energy pipeline, and legislative appetite align.

Looking for a practical path that works for farms and clean energy?

• Independent analysis: cost modeling and benefit adequacy review not dependent on industry analysis

• Model legislation and permit conditions: Farm Bill proposals to redirect severe restrictions on solar to pro-farmer and pro-solar approaches, state expedited permitting pathways, and county conditional use permit language ready for adoption.

• Bipartisan framing: rural economic competitiveness, local farmer governance, and farmland protection in a single framework that holds across political contexts.

• USDA Best Management Practice development: evidence-based comment record for the rulemaking window following Farm Bill enactment.

We selectively accept pro bono and reduced-rate engagements when independent analysis can help decision-makers cut through competing industry claims and advance practical solutions. 

Asking how to turn community investment into lasting rural benefits?

• Theory of change development: grounded in evidence on which interventions produce durable rural community outcomes.

• Landscape and partner mapping: what existing organizations are doing, what gap each leaves, and where to invest.

• Farmer Benefit Trust as a funding vehicle: a farmer-governed Trust that routes philanthropic investment to rural communities as a locally directed fund — not an outside grant.

• Pilot design: generates real-world effectiveness data structured to inform policy development and national best practice standards.