Wind farms create jobs, they pay taxes, and they provide new income streams for farmers and ranchers. We’re seeing small towns getting new life as the additional tax income improves schools and infrastructure. Businesses are doing better with the newly employed and ranchers/farmers spending their earnings.

The Republican governors of Wyoming and Kansas have become advocates for more support for the wind industry.

What will make Midwest wind really take off is the construction of more transmission lines to carry that energy to urban areas. Kansas is getting a new line at the moment and work is underway to hook Wyoming to the West Coast via tying to existing HVDC transmission lines.

You might make folks in your state aware that there are jobs to be had and money to be made.

http://www.awea.org/learnabout/publications/upload/4Q-11-Nebraska.pdf
http://archive.awea.org/newsroom/releases/03-12-10-AWEA%20Statement%20on%20Nebraska%20Wind%20Integration%20Study.html

Some stats on production:

http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/89.htm

According to the American Wind Energy Association, Nebraska is ranked sixth in the nation with the greatest energy potential from wind power. In 2011, over 1 billion kilowatthours were generated by utility–scale wind energy in Nebraska (see graph andtable).
A map is available showing the Wind Farms in Nebraska.
Nebraska has 196 operational wind turbines with a total capacity of 337.38 megawatts (or 337,380 kilowatts for comparison purposes). The average annual output could power about 103,880 homes.

http://www.neo.ne.gov/renew/wind.htm