[dennishoddy]

Our farms are in Grant county north of Enid. Not much to see out there other than barbed wire fences. The winds blew the barbs off years ago. Nothing but those wires between us and the north pole.

 

[dennishoddy]

As much as I hate em, those wind farms have saved a lot of family farms from bankruptcy.

 

[dennishoddy]

I can see where they have probably been a blessing to our flat land neighbors and ugly or not that is good to hear. Hate hearing stories about people losing their land. I know it happens but heck I’ve heard so many about properties handed down from statehood and in 2008 were lost from loans that never should never have been given

We have the 40 acres Great-Great Grandpa staked at the Oklahoma land run in Grant County still in the family. Killed two nice bucks from it this year.

 

[dennishoddy]

I don’t think the wind farms have much effect on animals other than the bird issues. One of my best coyote calling areas is in the shadows of a working wind generator. It joins up with a wheat field covered in deer tracks.
The animals have grown up with pump jack’s moving all over their territory. They get used to them just like they get used to the wind towers.

 

[dennishoddy]

One interesting thing I have seen is during the hot summer months the cattle will stand in A long line in the shade of the turbine towers and move with the sun so that they stay in the shade. We call them the Osage sundials.

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I'll have to look for that.