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Rural/Farm Life

safeinOhio

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3. Here in Central Michigan windmills are pooping up like crazy...

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2019, 01:29 AM

May 2019

On average, rental payments for the placement of a single wind turbine lease can pay landowners up to $8,000 per year. Thus, wind farming can quickly become quite valuable, especially for larger locations that can host several hundred wind turbines.

I guess the cancer risks might be worth it.

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the inflexibility of monocultures will be their undoing. [View all] mopinko May 2019 OP

we've barely begun to face, process and understand the impact of changing climate on farming and NRaleighLiberal May 2019 #1

we seem to be one or the other. mopinko May 2019 #5

What do the 7,000 people laid off at Ford do? They are told to retrain but how? wasupaloopa May 2019 #2

Here in Central Michigan windmills are pooping up like crazy... safeinOhio May 2019 #3

I have found varieties of vegetables that do well in monsoon like rains and desert like droughts Farmer-Rick May 2019 #4

i do most of that, tho some for different reasons. mopinko May 2019 #6

Yeah, some classes on smaller farming techniques would have been great Farmer-Rick May 2019 #7