{"id":3784,"date":"2025-10-01T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenaweevoice.com\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:33:30","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-for-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenaweevoice.com\/staging\/7542\/2025\/10\/01\/letter-to-the-editor-for-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor for October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The following Letter to the Editor is from the October 2025 issue of The Lenawee Voice. Letters should be 300 words or fewer and may be emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:letters@lenaweevoice.com\">letters@lenaweevoice.com<\/a>. If space is limited, preference will be given to local authors and local topics. Please include your town of residence and a phone number for verification.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Township boards biased against solar projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve gone to all of Deerfield and Blissfield Township\u2019s Orsted public solar meetings and the RWE Clean Energy Palmyra Township meetings. I\u2019ve noticed the bias in the boards against farmers trying to make a living. In none of these meetings have they addressed the disaster of what these farm tariffs have done to the farming community. Their biggest customer is China and China is now buying their farm commodities from Brazil leaving American farmers out, which makes up over 80% of their market. I hear these boards say it\u2019s all about saving prime farm ground. They don\u2019t want to look at a solar farm, but not one on these boards have noted that if farmers can\u2019t sell their commodities at a profit, that makes their arguments moot. If you do a simple Google search you would see multiple stories about farmers going bankrupt because their costs far exceed their selling prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Residential homeowners living in agricultural-zoned districts do not have the same rights as those living in residential zoned land. This is why most farmers are not coming to these board meetings. They know they are not being heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014\u00ad Paul Wohlfarth, Ottawa Lake<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Township boards biased against solar projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"community":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perspectives"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letter to the Editor for October 2025 | The Lenawee Voice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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