Delaware County drove a wind farm out

In 2006, opponents buried spikes in an unharvested corn field, damaging a combine; hid fencing in corn stalks in another attempt to damage farm equipment; and drove cars through farm fields to protest Delaware County's proposed Ag Biovision Park, which was trying to attract an ethanol refinery and which opponents feared would also become home to so-called hog factory farms.

Last year, opponents drove a proposed E.ON Climate & Renewables wind farm out of Delaware County, circulating petitions, handing out pin-back buttons reading "Grow corn not wind turbines" and selling yard signs bearing the message "Save our homes."

"Certainly in Randolph County, we understand the high-level importance of agricultural-type business," Bruce Hosier, director of the Randolph County Economic Development Corp., told The Star Press last week.