Farms clean up with new (energy) crop (WI)

[jpak]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=731514

Town of Marshfield - The state's newest energy crop is rising above the rolling farm fields overlooking Lake Winnebago in northeastern Fond du Lac County.

While farmers throughout Wisconsin have planted more corn in recent years to make ethanol, some area farmers will soon receive payments for giving land over to another renewable resource: wind turbines.

More than 170 turbines sit atop towers in two new wind farm projects in Fond du Lac and Dodge counties. The new turbines will generate only a fraction of the state's power needs, yet they are the most significant expansion yet of the state's renewable energy efforts.

"It's our future for energy, isn't it?" said Melvin Olig of Mount Calvary as he took an afternoon walk on country roads with turbines on either side.

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[newfie11]

1. Hey bring em on

All Wyomings wind blows over here. I would be happy to rent out a hill for turbines.