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The term "Cornbread Mafia" was first used in public by federal prosecutors in a June 1989 press conference, where they revealed that 70 men had been arrested for organizing a marijuana trafficking ring that stretched across 30 farms in 10 states stretching from the Southeast into the Midwest. [2]
That bust of the self-named Cornbread Mafia involved 29 farms in nine states, including Kentucky, according to media reports. Scores of people were prosecuted.
Kentucky had its own history of raids on the Cornbread Mafia, like in 1983, when more than 20 Kentuckians were arrested for growing about 22,000 plants on farms in Hart County.
John Robert “Johnny” Boone, 80. Boone, who once ran a multi-state marijuana-growing operation known as the Cornbread Mafia, died June 14 at Village of Lebanon. He was known to some as the ...
In the 1980s, Boone was a leader in the Cornbread Mafia, a drug organization in Kentucky dubbed the "largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history". [3] During his time in the organization, he helped set up marijuana farms in his home state of Kentucky as well as surrounding states in the Midwest including Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas.
City Barbeque founder Rick Malir grew up on a farm in rural Kansas and, as a teenager, served as National FFA president from 1985 to 1986. [3] [4] [5] He was introduced to barbeque in college at Kansas State University, [6] where he earned a degree in agricultural economics; Malir also holds an MBA from the University of Illinois. [4]
The Hartman Stock Farm Historic District was a historic district in Columbus, Ohio. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places from 1974 to 2022. [1] [2] The district is the site of Hartman Farm, a 5,000-acre farm founded by Samuel B. Hartman in 1903.
Hartman Stock Farm Historic District: Hartman Stock Farm Historic District. October 9, 1974 (#74001492) February 10, 2022: South of downtown Columbus on U.S. Route 23