This episode of Silicon Ranch Radio is the first in a three-part series focused on CattleTracker, Silicon Ranch’s patented platform for grazing cattle under solar panels at a commercially viable scale. We officially launched CattleTracker on a utility scale project in Christiana, Tennessee, recently, marking a major new development for the American energy and agriculture sectors.

On this episode, host Nick de Vries is joined by Loran Shallenberger, our Vice President of Regenerative Energy and Agrivoltaics. Before joining Silicon Ranch, Loran was—and still is—a cattle farmer, and that producer’s perspective has been foundational to how CattleTracker was conceived, designed, and deployed.

During their conversation, Loran and Nick talk about how Silicon Ranch’s success with sheep agrivoltaics revealed a much larger opportunity with cattle, why grazing cattle under solar is far more complex than it might appear, and what it truly means for an agrivoltaics system to work as a real agribusiness—for ranchers, for solar generation, and for the land.

This is a story about scale, stewardship, and building systems that work for producers and consumers in the marketplace. Enjoy the episode.

Ending Song: “Better Late Than Never” by Hue Hinton