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<blockquote data-quote="Okie4570" data-source="post: 3183869" data-attributes="member: 15643"><p>Here's how I would group Oklahoma producers........</p><p></p><p>Group 1- Older generation, 60-80 year old, they're still farming the family homesteads from the land runs from just a generation or two prior to them. Pot has been taboo their whole lives, and most likely won't start now. They don't and won't differentiate between pot and hemp, it's the same thing to them. The older generations have seen things come and go dozens of times over the years, and if their farm plan is still paying the bills after all these years, they won't take the leap on something unproven. This generation also has the most oil/gas money, since rarely do mineral rights sell with the surface now.</p><p></p><p>Group 2- Younger generations, the twenty through fifty year old producers. They are much more likely to have an extensive cattle program, and need wheat pasture throughout the fall and winter, otherwise they're buying more hay and feed for 5-6 months of the year. The younger generations look to the older generation for advise on what's kept the farm going all these years, and I can hear them now..... "Son we've seen carpetbaggers come and go, and these things have held true throughout the years, oil, natural gas, and cattle and the crops are a bonus if they make." They're in line to inherit land and mineral rights, so why stick their neck out there with hemp?</p><p></p><p>You simply just don't see "new" farmers and ranchers, it's too expensive to start up from nothing. Any up and comers were born and raised on the farm and either want to continue the family farm/ranch, or they were born and raised on the farm and want no part of it, and go a completely different direction with their career.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Okie4570, post: 3183869, member: 15643"] Here's how I would group Oklahoma producers........ Group 1- Older generation, 60-80 year old, they're still farming the family homesteads from the land runs from just a generation or two prior to them. Pot has been taboo their whole lives, and most likely won't start now. They don't and won't differentiate between pot and hemp, it's the same thing to them. The older generations have seen things come and go dozens of times over the years, and if their farm plan is still paying the bills after all these years, they won't take the leap on something unproven. This generation also has the most oil/gas money, since rarely do mineral rights sell with the surface now. Group 2- Younger generations, the twenty through fifty year old producers. They are much more likely to have an extensive cattle program, and need wheat pasture throughout the fall and winter, otherwise they're buying more hay and feed for 5-6 months of the year. The younger generations look to the older generation for advise on what's kept the farm going all these years, and I can hear them now..... "Son we've seen carpetbaggers come and go, and these things have held true throughout the years, oil, natural gas, and cattle and the crops are a bonus if they make." They're in line to inherit land and mineral rights, so why stick their neck out there with hemp? You simply just don't see "new" farmers and ranchers, it's too expensive to start up from nothing. Any up and comers were born and raised on the farm and either want to continue the family farm/ranch, or they were born and raised on the farm and want no part of it, and go a completely different direction with their career. [/QUOTE]
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