LINCOLN -- That "swoosh" sound that windmills make as the big blades pass by their towers is a sweet chord to Richard Plinsky.

"It sounds like 'cha-ching, cha-ching,' kinda like a cash register," he said.

His farm and ranch is situated among the 155 massive turbines in the Smoky Hills Wind Farm in Lincoln and Ellsworth counties. Plinsky, 61, leased land to the Smoky Hills Wind Farm project some eight years ago.

"I was fortunate to be smack dab in the middle of it," he said.

The wind farm has proven to be just the boon he expected.

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