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!
Welcome back to another Ranch Raised edition of Fun Fact Friday! Where are my pasta, bagel, and bread lovers? Listen up because today is all about the goddess of grain world, wheat!
Wheat is really a powerhouse American grain and commodity! According to the National Association of Wheat Growers, half of the wheat grown in the US is used domestically. Kansas grows the most wheat, with North Dakota ranking second. Kansas is number one in flour milling in the United States.
Kansas produces enough wheat each year to bake 36 billion loaves of bread and enough to feed everyone in the world, over six billion people, for about 2 weeks. An acre of Kansas wheat produces enough bread to feed nearly 9,000 people for one day.
A bushel of wheat yields 42 one and half pound commercial loaves of white bread or about forty-five of wheat flake cereal or 42 pounds of pasta which is 210 servings of spaghetti.
The US ranks 4 globally in per capita consumption of wheat.
Let’s all appreciate the American wheat and grain farmers who feed our country and the world! I hold American agriculture in high regard, no matter what the commodity. If we can’t feed our own country and become dependent on others to feed us, well, I think you all know where that will lead us.
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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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