'Growing food here isn't profitable, solar is'
Cranwell farmer Joe Ward is defending plans to build a 640-acre solar farm on his land.
It is just one of many patches of agricultural land in the county destined to use the power of the sun to generate electricity, rather than grow crops.
In a county famed for its produce, the idea is controversial.
Campaigners have been protesting about "energy invasion" fears, with at least 12 large solar farms already approved for Lincolnshire by the government.
The Beacon Fen Energy Park in nearby Heckington was the latest to be approved, which the Reform-led county council says was an "appalling" decision.
Council leader Sean Matthews has said it was "another attack on our beautiful countryside".
Local Conservative MP Caroline Johnson says the proposals for Windsock Solar Farm "goes beyond the reasonable amount local people should be expected to bear".
Developers BLC Energy, which is behind the plans, says the impact on local residents is overinflated.
"I'm not going to deny it will be a change to views," managing director Neil Lindsay says.
"Locally, there is a change, but the advantage with solar compared to some of the other technologies is it's relatively low to the ground, which means you can put in hedgerows and new trees."
Neil thinks there is "misinformation about what these things look like".
He says if you were to drive past a solar farm "you wouldn't even know they're there".
"We've seen that from a lot of projects where we've taken concerned members of the community to visit an operating solar farm. Once they get there, they walk around, they understand it. A lot of those fears seem to dissipate."
