My great grandfather on my mother's side farmed and raised purebred shorthorns in Missouri and Oklahoma. My grandmother left Oklahoma during the depression and dust bowl days, but her generation stayed in agriculture for many years. Her family was originally from Scotland.
My grandfather on my adopted dad's side was a sharecropper in Texas and his family originally came from Ireland. Farming then skipped a generation or two, until I managed to escape the city 25 years ago and started raising cattle in Montana and Utah.
My bio dad's family came from Holland to Pennsylvania, and followed the same basic migratory track as many others in my family. Tennesse, Arkansas, Texas, then to California during WWII. My grandfather was a stonemason. I don't see any farmers on that side of the family.
Looking back over the generations, our family had many, many cousins, uncles & aunts who either raised cattle, worked for ranches, or farmed their own land. Ours was a poor, migratory family, mostly following the great cattle drives, and/or homesteading land. My great grandfather left Tennessee and homesteaded Indian land in Missouri, then left there and, along with his brothers-in-law, homesteaded in the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. His brother-in-law went to work for the XIT Ranch in Texas as a cook for the cattle drives from Texas to Montana. He eventually "bought out an old trapper's claim" in northeastern Montana and settled there.