We have huge turbines in farmlands in the south of the Netherlands. I assume the farmers get some subsidy, but it seems like a good overlap of land use.

I posted another comment but john Deere did this and had to remove sites in the US because of ecological harm onto farmers. We have a lot of them around my area too, my uncle installed most of them, the 1-2MW are really a dent when you see the size of US wind turbines

Up to 36.000 euro per mill per year actually. Not a bad time to be owning farmland in the Netherlands.

Plus it appears that you get to put a logo of your farm up on the pole. :)

Doubly so if you can stick a cell antennae there too

> You can't live close to a wind turbine as large as they are being built today

Reasonably sure cows don't mind.