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This research was funded by the US Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Sustainable Agricultural Systems project entitled “Sustainably Co-locating Agricultural and Photovoltaic Electricity Systems (SCAPES)”, led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Grant Number: 2021-68012-35898. 2021-2025.