Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide!
We are winding our week towards a big holiday weekend!
If you are a gardener, especially in the Midwest, I’m sure you have your seed potatoes ready to go , to put in the ground, tomorrow, on Good Friday! The Farmer’s Almanac has great information on the Good Friday potato lore. Generations have used Good Friday as the right time to plant crops like potatoes and cool season veggies. According to the folklore, plants grow better and bear more fruit when planted on Good Friday. This appears to have started in the 1600s when potatoes were just arriving in Europe and people were concerned the tubers might be evil, all those eyes and all. In order to protect themselves from the evil of potatoes they began planting them on Good Friday often after sprinkling the soil with Holy Water.
I will be honest, if the wind is blowing gusting at hurricane force tomorrow, you won’t find me out there battling a dirt storm to get my potatoes in the ground. Anyone else sick of this wind?!?!
But, I tell you where I will be for sure tomorrow, right back here for Fun, Fact Friday where I am going to share with facts about none other than the American potato industry! Mashed, fried, roasted, or baked the potato is a great American meal staple. While some of us grow enough potatoes to feed our family, right from out of our own backyard, most of America is grabbing their potatoes in grocery stores and from food service. Which means those potatoes get the grocery store and restaurants because of the care of some pretty great farmers in our country and I can’t wait to tell you all about it.
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Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 3 daughters near Broken Bow, NE. She grew up in western NE, with roots also in southwest SD. The cattle industry and raising kids is her passion.
Watching the cattle industry go the path that it has gone, she could no longer sit quietly at home checking cows, fixing fence, and doing all the everyday tasks wondering when some else was going to make it all better. As she became more active and outspoken on industry issues, she was asked to join the R-CALF USA staff in September 2020 as the Checkoff Petition Campaign manager. That position transcended into her current role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
You can hear her almost every Friday on Your Ag Network’s Hot Barn Report that is broadcast on 60 radio stations with coverage in 9 states, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and highlights R-CALF’s work on industry reforms. Listen to Ranch Raised on a Your Ag Network hometown station or www.youragnetwork.com where she talks about her daily life on the ranch.
Cattle producers are her people. She will meet you at the county fair, at the sale barn, or anywhere the dusty trail leads.
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