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!
September is Family Meals Month, which is really nice follow-up to what I talked about yesterday. So if you missed that episode you can catch the replay on the Your Ag Network website or the Ranch Raised FB page.
For some reason, I have chosen to put microscope on American society and especially the American family. What is normal? Or maybe we should ask, “What SHOULD be normal?” According to the Nebraska Extension, September is Family Meals Month. Unfortunately, there is a growing body of evidence that Americans don’t sit down around the dinner table. A study by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard University health researchers reported that almost one in two families are struggling to find time to dine together. To be precise, 46% said it was difficult to eat together on a regular basis.
Not only that, but the average family dinner lasted for a full hour-and-a-half 60 years ago. Today, the average dinner lasts just 12 minutes. The researchers also found that the frequency of family dinners has gone down by 33% in the last two decades alone, and even when families do eat together it’s often in front of a television screen.
Have you ever analyzed your family’s meal habits? How often are you able to sit at a table, in your home and enjoy a meal with every member of your immediate family in attendance? I’m going to bring you more food for thought, during Family Meals Month, here in September!
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children near Merriman, 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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