ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBruce 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.For Roder, a local township supervisor, the arrangement makes a lot of sense. The turbines are quiet. He’s never seen one of them kill a bird. And he...…ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBruce 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.For Roder, a local township supervisor, the arrangement makes a lot of sense. The turbines are quiet. He’s never seen one of them kill a bird. And he...WW…
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