Wind Investment Business Opportunity
Livestock producers have an old saying about not minding their animals’ odor because “that’s the smell of money.”
Scott Tjaden doesn’t mind the wind that blows across this part of Northern Iowa for the same reason — it means cash in his pocket.
The reason is the wind turbine Tjaden, his father, Larry, and his uncle, Dean, erected on their farmland here in rural Floyd County.
The idea for harnessing wind power began blowing around the Tjaden household just a few years ago, after the family built a hog-finishing building on its farmland.
The Tjadens considered the two options most pursued by farmers who look at wind energy — either leasing land for very large turbines that are part of larger wind farms owned by energy companies or buying a small 65-kilowatt turbine that would power a livestock building on their property.
But, they opted for a different course. They found a used 450-kilowatt turbine with 63-foot-long blades and mounted it on a 110-foot tower in the middle of a field here.
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