The American family farm is in dire straits and has been for decades now. Corporate Farms have through economies of scale simply become too competitive in the market place, offering lower costs and having the power to lobby their will with Washington. No matter who is to blame for the plight and destruction of family farms across America, is now irrelevant, but maybe there is a way to make it up to them?

If landowners and family farms can put up wind turbines, sell the electricity to the grid, then maybe they can covert those farms that once grew crops into wind farms with hundreds of generators powering up our civilization. Think it cannot happen? It already is in a few places in our nation. For instance in Wyoming, Nebraska and Montana, where droughts have taken their toll on farmers, the agricultural industry is fighting back by putting in wind farms.

Of course, if you know anything about wind turbines and alternative energies then you have been watching the entrepreneurial capitalist efforts of T. Boone Pickens. His plan is to turn much of South Texas into wind farms to harvest that steady but abundant breeze in that region. And why not, why waste that wind energy, it’s blowing whether you collect it or not.

Indeed, the best part of this strategy is the it has the full force of the government behind it with tax incentives and fast track regulatory policies. So, in the future when you are driving across the country, you may look out and see wind turbines instead of only agricultural fields.