Print subscribers If you're a print subscriber, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one. Digital-only subscribers If you're a digital-only subscriber, but do not yet have an online account, click here to create one. Winds of change blow farms County board anticipates June vote on wind farm ordinance amid developer interest Posted By GARY HENRY ghenry@prairiepress.net Discussion of wind farms and changes to the county’s wind farm ordinance dominated discussion at the Edgar County Board study session Monday, May 10. A committee of board chairman Jeff Voigt, board member Lisa Ellis and citizen John Chittick have been working on updating the county’s wind farm ordinance for approximately a year and the county is facing a deadline for getting a new ordinance in place. The county board declared a moratorium on accepting wind farm applications in November 2020 as a way to work on revising the outdated ordinance without undue outside pressure. Declaring the moratorium, however, set a clock ticking under state law requiring resolution of the issue within six months.