Critics say greedy farmers ‘sold out’

I am writing this letter in reference to the energy controversy feature on the front page of the Jan. 13 Reporter.

In that story we were labeled by critics as greedy farmers who sold out to easy money. As landowners before we “sold out,” we organized and looked at all the pros and cons of The Cedar Ridge wind farm. We traveled to another wind farm and talked to many people who have lived around these turbines. Not one had a negative thought.

Most of the landowners’ families date back to the breaking of the land and many still live in their 50- to 100-year-old farm homes.

It is these people who have been or are the volunteer firefighters, the first responders, the 4-H leaders, the little league coaches, and the ones who are active in all the local church activities. These are the people who have put the milk and meat on your table and have asked for little in return.

We feel that instead of sending our sons and daughters off to a foreign land to fight and die for “Energy Security” we are going to do something.

To the person who called us greedy, I would suggest that when you go to sit on your back porch with your cup of coffee to watch the sunset, you think about another sunset that will come to all of us.

Then I suggest you think about how you will answer when you are asked what have you done for the future and all the people who will come after you. Maybe then that magnificent white turbine slowly turning in the wind won’t look so ugly.