{"id":120221,"date":"2026-07-09T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/why-volkswagen-has-hired-100-sheep-to-work-at-its-plant-in-poland\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:35:48","slug":"why-volkswagen-has-hired-100-sheep-to-work-at-its-plant-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/why-volkswagen-has-hired-100-sheep-to-work-at-its-plant-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Volkswagen has &#8216;hired&#8217; 100 sheep to work at its plant in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen has replaced mechanical lawnmowers with 100 sheep at its Pozna\u0144 solar farm in Poland, where the flock grazes beneath 31,000 panels powering the plant. Built by Quanta Energy, the 18.3 MW installation supplies 25% of the factory&#8217;s annual electricity. The agrivoltaics project, run with Pozna\u0144 University of Life Sciences, studies how grazing affects biodiversity, soil, and animal welfare\u2014proving industry and nature can coexist.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen has replaced mechanical lawnmowers with 100 sheep at its Pozna\u0144 solar farm in Poland, where the flock grazes beneath 31,000 panels powering the plant. Built by Quanta Energy, the 18.3 MW installation supplies 25% of the factory&#8217;s annual electricity. The agrivoltaics project, run with Pozna\u0144 University of Life Sciences, studies how grazing affects biodiversity,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/why-volkswagen-has-hired-100-sheep-to-work-at-its-plant-in-poland\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Volkswagen has &#8216;hired&#8217; 100 sheep to work at its plant in Poland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":120222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}