ABSTRACT
Wind is a natural feature of the countryside; and one that farmers may think of firstly as causing difficulties rather than creating opportunities. In the Fens it may even lift a layer of topsoil, and seed, off the fields and blow it away through the neighbourhood. Elsewhere, the consequences tend to be less dramatic, but are still often destructive, with cereals being ‘lodged’, lambs being weakened, barns being damaged and branches breaking off hedgerow trees and dropping onto public roads. How might this normally troublesome phenomenon be used to advantage, and especially financial advantage?
