A fight has erupted over the impact of renewable energy on farmland, with the Nationals warning new mapping reveals broadscale destruction after senior MPs said it was inevitable landholders who host renewables would be targeted by protests.

However, farmers argue renewable energy will only occupy a sliver of the nation’s agriculture land and provide valuable new sources of revenue, often hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help “drought proof” agricultural production.

Nationals leader David Littleproud and Queensland MP Colin Boyce issued warnings following the publication of a new mapping project by a conservation organisation that collates all the existing and proposed wind and solar projects across Australia.

“It’s frightening and this is where the renewable projects and the

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