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Casey Murph discusses the threat posed by Ørsted's plans to lease his grazing land for solar energy production and the implications for ranching in America.

Ørsted, a Danish renewable energy giant, is trying to lease 4,000 acres of Casey's state grazing land in Arizona to build an industrial solar array - land that he depends on for winter range, without which the ranch isn't viable. Casey believes productive grazing land shouldn't be touched when there's no shortage of barren desert, parking lots, and brownfields that could take solar instead - and the companies could do it if they wanted to, they just won't because it's cheaper and easier to go after open range. Casey Murph is a fifth-generation cattle rancher in northeastern Arizona. This episode covers that fight, and what's at stake for generational ranching in America. 5 Key Topics: How Ørsted is attempting to take Casey's winter range for industrial solar Why solar should go on parking lots and brownfields, not productive grazing land Ørsted's existing Arizona install powers a Meta data centre, not homes The collapse of independent beef operations and what it's done to supply and price Casey's strategy: state land pressure, political allies, and buying time Timestamps: 00:00 - Casey intro 02:00 - The Ørsted solar threat 05:00 - Foreign-owned conglomerates 09:00 - Urban…

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