There's a growing movement out west as ranchers and property owners in high, steady wind areas of Wyoming and neighboring western states turn to wind energy associations as a means of better understanding and coming to terms with the growing number of wind energy project developers and agents interested in leasing rights to their land.
Cattle ranchers in areas such as Wyoming's Laramie Valley are having a tough time of it: though they've come down sharply of late, the cost of diesel and gasoline, as well as fertilizers, hay and other inputs, have shot up sharply over a period of years. This year's calf prices, meanwhile, are the lowest since 2002 putting pressure on the many smaller, family run cow/calf operations spread across the Mountain West.
While demand for their calves and beef may be weak and margins tightening, ranchers in places like Laramie Valley are finding that they have another increasingly valuable natural resource: wind. In order to come to grips with the deals being put before them and cut better ones, typically fiercely independent ranchers and other property owners are forming wind energy associations, according to a report run by NPR's "All Things Considered."
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With growing numbers of producers and consumers looking to re-connect and find healthier, more sustainable and ecologically beneficial ways of producing and consuming food, goings-on at the Whitten Ranch high up in Colorado’s San Luis Valley can serve as a valuable case study of family ranches and farms, the growing sustainable agriculture movement and the application of the triple bottom line principles.[read more]
“America better prepare for some uncomfortable changes. Things might get really ugly.” – A Farmer, recently quoted in Esquire No,...[read more]
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