7. A ranch needs more than one horse
No rider trusts his whole season to a single mount. Horses go lame, trails wear them down, and long miles demand fresh legs. On a ranch, you keep a string — different horses for different jobs, each one ready when the other can’t go on.
The same holds for work. Put all your weight on one crop, one market, one skill, and sooner or later it’ll buckle. Diversity ain’t a luxury out here — it’s survival. The spread that plants only one seed risks an empty harvest. The outfit that rides only one horse risks being stranded.
Strength comes from variety — a remuda of horses, a mix of trades, a balance that carries you through lean years and fat ones. One falls, another takes the lead. That’s how the herd keeps moving.
That’s why we don’t bet the ranch on one. Because resilience isn’t built in good times — it’s built in having the next horse saddled when the first one stumbles.
