Adele Schott discusses her journey of returning to the family ranch and the challenges of succession. She shares her experiences of leaving the ranch to gain worldly knowledge and skills, working in restaurants, and cowboy-ing on different ranches. Adele explains how her experiences off the ranch influenced her approach to ranching and the changes she brought back, such as a focus on food and selling beef to restaurants. She also talks about the accidental shift to raising Corriente cattle and the challenges and emotions involved in succession planning. In this conversation, Adele Schott shares her experience of transitioning the family ranch to the next generation. She emphasizes the importance of humility, adaptability, and open communication in the process. Adele and her brother have found their own unique roles on the ranch, with Adele focusing on managing livestock and her brother focusing on wildlife conservation and agritourism. They work together to improve the land and honor their family's legacy. Adele advises the next generation to stay humble, be flexible, and share knowledge with each other. ranching, succession, agriculture, women in agriculture, ranch life, leaving and returning, worldly knowledge, skills, restaurants, Corriente beef, family business, emotional challenges, compromise, moving forward, family ranch, transition, humility, adaptability, communication, roles, wildlife conservation, agritourism, legacy

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