Jeff Roche
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first heard Dec 2025
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So they decide to market it.
And a lot of these ranchers form land development companies.
Almost every single one of the major ranches goes into the real estate business.
The first thing they do is they start selling small ranches, like four-section ranches.
A section is a square mile.
So you could have four square miles.
And a family could put, you know, 100 head on that or run a cow-calf operation or something.
And the ranchers can sell land that they picked up for close to nothing, you know, for $1, $1.50 an acre.
So this is the first stage.
And once it starts raining a little bit, they start realizing that they can start selling land to commercial families.
And what I mean by commercial families, rather than kind of a homestead, you can sell off a parcel of land and market it as a land investment, but also a place where you can practice commercial agriculture.
And they were trying everything.
They tried green beans.
They tried corn, potatoes, just a lot of potatoes, farms up in the panhandle.
But the two big ones that came online pretty early and proved successful were wheat and long stable cotton.
And the kind of wheat they were growing, originally a version of this wheat had been grown on the Russian steppes.
It's a winter wheat.
It's very hardy.
It withstands wind.
And you plant it in the fall.
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