In 2007, when Adair County farmer Randy Caviness rallied fellow Farm Bureau members into a group of local investors to embark on an experimental wind power generation project, he wasn’t sure where the wind would blow them.

That was 10 wind turbines ago. The latest effort, a 1.8 megawatt GE turbine just south of Anita, went online in June. Located near the Farmers Electric Cooperative Anita substation, the power...