Realizing farmers can make money on more than just crops, the maker of green tractors puts its cash behind wind turbines.

By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer September 5 2007: 11:18 AM EDT NEW YORK

(CNNMoney.com) -- For Steve Tiedeman, a farmer in Woodstock, Minn., it hasn't been all that great of a year. The weather's been dry, and he's lost about a third of the corn on his 1,000 acre farm. But Tiedeman, along with a growing number of farmers across the Midwest, can now rely on another, more stable crop: wind power.

Pickens urges action With the help of big companies that put up the cash, farmers once tied to the weather, government subsidies or the fluctuations of the commodity market can now rely on the relative stability of the wind.

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