What’s your guess?
- Their livelihood depends on Mother Nature
- They have no control over what they need to prosper
- They watch the skies, hoping and praying for rain!
- They go about their daily business while their hearts ache for a reprieve!
My dad said repeatedly, “Ranchers and farmers are the biggest gamblers in the world–always depending on Mother Nature for the precious rain they need for crops, for reservoir water, and to grow grass.
Could you handle the stress? the strain? the not knowing? If you have a predictable payday, then you have no idea what these men and women face every day.
My brother and I inherited our family ranch five years ago, and the droughty years stress me out. This year we have gotten rain for grass but many of our reservoirs were empty all summer and finally have gotten a little in the last couple weeks.
We had a storm on Wednesday in the town I grew up in which is just 4 – 6 miles from where we need our ponds filled. We got almost two inches in town, but the storm lightened up the further east you went, so the reservoirs that need it right now preparing for the winter didn’t get it.
I agree with my Dad, a rancher his whole life, “Yes, they are the biggest gamblers, but the perks are worth it.”
Let it rain!
Could you be a rancher, a farmer?
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