169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
4.9 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Nate Pontius of Pontius Ranches to talk about what it really takes to build a ranch in central Texas. Adapting through drought, raising animals with intention, and producing better food from the ground up.
We also get into Nate’s journey from the Marine Corps to ranch life, and how hard seasons, family, and purpose reshaped the way he trains, works, and lives.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 The Rhythm of Rain and Ranch Life
02:03 Adapting in Drought Season
03:25 Better Feed, Better Animals
11:48 Why Quality Pork Tastes Different
16:33 The Farmer’s Bowl
29:08 From Marine to Rancher
34:02 How Fatherhood Changes a Man
39:08 The Reality of Building a Life
45:49 Building What Money Can’t Buy
54:21 Life After Service
01:03:23 Training for Health, Not Ego
01:14:29 Rebuilding Land the Right Way
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, today on the podcast, we have Nate Pontius with Pontius Ranches. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome, brother. |
| 0:13.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:15.6 | All right now, it is raining here in central Texas. |
| 0:21.6 | So my dad's side of the family were dairy and crop farmers in central Pennsylvania. |
| 0:26.6 | And I knew how their lives and just their days were affected by the weather. |
| 0:32.6 | How do you feel with, you know, days like today where it's raining pretty good? What does that make |
| 0:40.1 | you feel in terms of, like, your property, the animals, the crop, everything is a rancher, farmer |
| 0:45.7 | here in central Texas? Considering the entire time I've lived here the last five years, we've been in |
| 0:52.1 | just a prolific drought year over year getting |
| 0:55.4 | less and less rainfall. A day like today is a very, very good day. And it's also, it's also kind of |
| 1:03.4 | like forced rest. When it's raining like this, you're not out there aggressively getting after it on |
| 1:09.3 | the farm. You are physically resting and allowing the animals and the land to rest and just take in this rain. |
| 1:16.6 | So it's a really good day. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.0 | Perfect day for me to be doing a podcast. |
| 1:21.4 | I assumed that. |
| 1:22.6 | I did assume that. |
| 1:24.1 | I just remember growing up, my grandfather, he sold his farm when I was young, but I still |
| 1:32.2 | remember the days where he was a dairy farmer. It's like waking up every morning, 4 a.m., |
| 1:36.1 | milking the cows. Every night before we're going to sleep, milking the cows. But the mental state |
| 1:42.7 | that he was in was determined by the weather. |
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