Two second hand anecdotes:

1. There was opposition to a solar plant here by non-participating land owners. There was some speculation they opposed it because the farms had been struggling and those opposing had hoped to buy up the land cheap.

2. I've heard offers to farmers are more than they can make farming but with zero time and zero equipment from the farmers. Imagine a 10% raise but you never have to buy fuel or sit in a tractor for 14 hours a day during planting or harvesting or buy the tractor at all.

And bonus wind farm anecdote: a plant was being built in a very scenic but very rural area. "Very rural" is another way of saying "few opportunities for income" while "very scenic" means "wealthy out-of-state people have summer homes here." The anecdote I received was that the locals were all for the wind plant. "You're going to pay me $500 a month for a small piece of my land, and I can still farm the rest? Where do I sign?" The non-locals were opposed. They didn't need any money; they just wanted their little rural lake house.