For some, the government’s assistance for wind is starting to wear out its welcome.
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A row of wind turbines towers over the landscape near Edgeley, N.D. Darren Gibbins / Forum News Service
Bruce Roder and his sons farm just about everything. The family has wheat, soybeans, peas, canola “sometimes corn,” he says all on about 10,000 acres of land, spread across multiple farms, not far from Langdon, N.D.
For years, though, the land has sprouted another big cash crop: three towering wind turbines, gently spinning on the prairie wind, all worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000 in payments each year.