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!
So many feelings happening right now but most of all I’m feeling thankful that you are joining me today on Ranch Raised.
No doubt, our nation has been a contracting ball of anxiety and trepidation for the last few years, especially if you have any involvement in production agriculture. My area is gripped in a lingering drought situation where it just doesn’t seem like we can catch up much, from year to year to get some range and forage stockpiled. I know many of our grain farming peers are facing market prices that will leave them without a profit and wondering how they will financially survive during these times of high input conditions.
We can’t ignore our hearts bleeding for those in the eastern end of this country who have lost everything to Mother Nature, especially the lives of loved ones. And as far as the social and political climate of the world we live in is concerned, I don’t even turn the news on.
But if we have control over anything, it is what happens around our own dinner tables. Laughs can be shared. Encouragement can be given. Love can be felt. Respect can be reciprocated. All we need is to look at the people whom we share our table with to realize we can get through whatever life is challenging us with. If you have an empty seat at your table, I encourage you to invite someone over who is possibly sitting alone at their table.
And if you need a killer bread recipe to add some piping hot dinner rolls to that pot of soup, I’ve got you covered over on the Your Ag Network website, just click on the Ranch Raised Recipe book!
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children 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 former role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
Listen to Ranch Raised on a Your Ag Network hometown station or www.youragnetwork.com where she talks about her daily life on the Jones Ranch.
Cattle producers are her people. She will meet you at the county fair, at the sale barn, or anywhere the dusty trail leads.
karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
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