Illinois farmer Clayton Rosenberger was approached by a wind company about putting a turbine on his land, which he and his wife did not like. The turbine would be nearly 500 feet tall and would stand among the corn and soybean fields of their 1,100-acre farm in McLean County. Rosenberger was also concerned about what it would sound like and how it would affect his work. The financial calculation eventually changed his mind, since the turbine took about 0.1% of his farm, and the lease provided income that Rosenberger said more than compensated for the land taken out of production.
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