In 2014, an Iowa dairy farmer added a 10-kW wind turbine and two solar arrays to his farm; he reported $500 to $700 in monthly energy savings while still raising Jersey cows

Yoder runs a small dairy farm in Frytown, Iowa, where farming Jersey cows and operating a small dairy had long been the family's steady routine. In 2014, that routine stayed the same, according to a ClimateWire report republished by the Governors' Wind Energy