My dad once told me that a big time farmer took him way to the back of his farm and showed him a field of pot. He told my dad, “I can make more money off one acre of that than I can a hundred acres of soy beans.”
Bingo. It’s likely the cash crop all over the southern half of the country. If pot were legalized, the farmers’ profits would drop, but they could grow more and not risk losing their land. Of course, lots of things are overlooked in rural counties where everyone knows everyone else. That’s not always a bad thing. Live and let live.