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For farmers across America, planting season is well underway. In this in this area, I ve had some mint here, you know, peppermint, seed corn, commercial corn, soybeans, said Indiana landowner Norman Welker.But rather than seeds, a group of farmers in Northwest Indiana is putting steel piles into their ground. The reason To harvest something other than crops from these fields. We re collecting the sun s energy and turning it into, you know, into immediate use power, said Welker.Norman Welker is one of roughly 60 landowners in Starke and Pulaski counties who are renting their land to Doral Renewables for the creation of one of the largest solar farms in the U.S. We re farming the sun, yep. Except we re able to harvest it every day of the ye
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Sen. Jeff Merkley announced Tuesday that he is not running for President, telling supporters in a video that he will remain in the Senate after mulling a presidential bid for months.In a video that in many ways mimicked a presidential announcement, Merkley laid out his life story, described issues that he believes need to be tackled and outlined what could have been a rationale for a 2020 run. But the Oregon Democrat says in the video that he believes Democrats need leadership in the Oval Office and the Senate and that he believes he could be most effective in the legislative body. Over the last year, I ve weighed whether I can contribute more to the battle by running for president or by running for reelec
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