Posted on 06/27/2021 7:12:36 AM PDT by simpson96
Ree Drummond, also known as the star of Food Network’s The Pioneer Woman, lives on a ranch in the middle of Oklahoma. (snip) But how much land does her husband, Ladd Drummond, and his family actually own?
The story of how Drummond met her husband sounds similar to the way most people in their 20s meet a new love: Over some drinks at a bar. (snip) The two talked for a while, but they didn’t end up meeting again for another four months, when he finally asked her on a date. She said yes, and they hit it off. At the time, she had been planning to move to Chicago.(snip)
Today, the couple lives on a huge ranch in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. According to Two Peas and Their Pod blog, who visited Drummond to cook with her on the ranch, Drummond lives in the middle of nowhere with absolutely nothing in sight. This is because Drummond’s husband’s family actually owns more land than you can imagine.
In 2013, Modern Farmer reported on the country’s biggest landowners. While the Drummond family landed at No. 17 on the list, they still own more land than anyone probably thought. The family owns a total of 433,000 acres. To put that in perspective, that’s about 30 times’ the size of Manhattan. It’s unclear how many cattle and horses the family owns, but the family business, Drummond Land & Cattle Company, was founded more than 100 years ago by Ladd’s ancestors. Ree Drummond frequently shows the cattle and horses on her show.
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Owning and operating that much land makes you a wealthy and powerful family in Oklahoma, but Ree Drummond on her own has become a 1 woman conglomerate, not only does she have her show on Food Network, but she has her name on a bunch of items being sold at Walmarts everywhere, utensil, pots, pans, linens, clothes, food items, etc....
Not only that she has a magazine that is published, plus they own a number of businesses in the town of Pawhuska.
Is this a problem?
Our family likes her recipe for crash potatoes.
“Is this a problem?”
Not at all. I found it interesting.
Me too. The American dream. Own part of a state.
Who really cares.
Seems like an envy thing. More like a family that worked at a business for over 100 years and probably kept accumulating land over the years. Might have started with the fedgov 160 acre giveaway.
Not a problem. Just more of an educational opportunity for people who don’t know much about cattle ranching and/or the West.
It’s nice to see an old ranching family still control their farms.
Where it becomes a problem is that many of the largest owners of farmland are tech billionaires who are buying up vast swathes of farmland.
Gates, Bezos, and Buffett all of huge holdings. It looks like neo-feudalism with a small number of aristocrats controlling a large numbers of peasants working land they don’t own.
I like her show, “The Pioneer Woman”.
Her husband and children are almost always working hard. The children always have good manners.
The amount of land they have is incredible but its cattle country so depending on the size of the herd I suppose its necessary.
Living and working the American dream!
One of their former “neighbors” was Ted Turner, until he sold out to the Osage Indian Tribe.
Drummond Land & Cattle Co. traces its roots to Fredrick Drummond, who came to the former Osage Nation Indian territory at the age of 22 in 1886.
Drummond emigrated from Scotland in 1882 and was hired as a clerk by John R. Skinner who owned the Osage Mercantile Company in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
So Frederick Drummond worked for someone else to begin with. Couldn't have been that rich then. The family stuck together and fathers taught their sons well and they prospered. Sounds like the American dream.
The part of our state that we own is a whole lot smaller.
Yes she might be a nice person but I would never contribute to her earnings. I wont buy her stuff or watch her show. She has a good life without MY money.
I wish she would have her wares made in USA instead of China.
Won’t touch them.
A question I’ve never asked because I don’t GAS.
The Pioneer Woman is one of the best instructional cooking shows on TV. She cooks the kind of food I like to eat. She has a great catalog of recipes on-line. Most are highly rated.
Welfare ranchers are what the locals call them. They receive 2 million dollars a year just for boarding wild horses.
Tax payers pay to have horses removed from land further west, so ranchers can lease cheap land. They don’t want their cattle to compete with horses for limited grass.
We then pay other ranchers to board the wild horses.
Also while the numbers referenced may be presumed to be accurate, the graphic is most certainly not. There is no way that the Drummond family owns all of Osage county in its entirety. There are other people who live in Osage county besides just them. The graphic is misleading.
Conversely it's possible that they own land in Payne, Washington, and other contiguous counties in NE Oklahoma that the graphic doesn't show. Someone was just lazy.
Speaking for one's own self, there seems to be a point at which the fame, adulation, money, and sense of celebrity overtakes a person and they "go hollywood". Ms. Drummond seems to have done just that, particularly with tourist-trappy effect of her places in Pawhuska, and her own line of imported stuff from China, for sale at Wal-Mart. (Caveat: If the cheap kitchen stuff's really made in say, Taiwan or The Philippines, I take that criticism back. But one considers it a safe bet. JMO.)
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