It’s that simple

As the sun begins to crack the horizon, Clint Pace has already made his way into the crisp October morning and started his work for the day: feeding, counting and caring for his cattle. As the blue of daybreak grows paler, the cattle begin leisurely making their way to the feed bunk, which Clint says is natural as they anticipate their daily meal.

This is how nearly every day starts for Clint.

Clint, 39, runs one of the largest cattle farms in Clark County and there is no shortage of things to tend to on his 2,200 acres. After feeding his cattle, Clint may have to tend to any number of tasks: stringing fence on a hillside in the afternoon sun, hauling a drove of Charolais cattle from one property to another or taking his sons out to help him herd.

But work on the farm could stop with a single phone call.

If it’s Fred Pace, Clint’s father, it may mean that Clint is needed at Scobee Funeral Home, a Pace family business since 1958. Fred, 74, inherited the business from his father. Now, Clint does everything he can to help his dad run it.

This is the way that Clint likes to live his life, in and around Clark County, never running out of things to do. He says he tried a vacation a couple times and hated it.

“I don’t have it in me to sit still,” Clint said as he began to make his morning rounds at his Pilot View property. “I love my family, I love the work, I love the land.”

He has already started teaching his four young sons, ages 5 to 11, what it takes to run a large farm. In the afternoon, Clint and his three oldest boys are often on horseback herding cattle. Clint might bark orders at them, but his boys don’t seem to mind.

His son Jake, 7, said herding cattle with his dad is his “favorite thing.”

“I hope to keep working this hard for the next 10 years or so, and hopefully by then, at least two of the boys will be ready to take it over,” Clint said.

For now, Clint continues to make his morning rounds, with four young boys growing up alongside the work they may one day inherit.