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!
Have we become a society that willfully sacrifices freedom for convenience. Thanks for starting your week with me right here on Ranch Raised.
The societal shift of extreme consumerism is not a new topic around these parts. In the past I have talked about how the Industrial Revolution created a need for workers to produce for companies which increasingly drew men and women out of their homes and “working for the man”. Because men, and then both men and women, were working away from home, more and more, it meant that goods and services that early Americans were customarily providing for themselves they were then forced to start purchasing. I have watched this become a spiral of sorts for our society. And it often makes me ponder, “do we have to work the rat race to provide for our families or because we are such huge consumers does that keep us a slave to the time clock.”
I actually thought of this yesterday when one of the kids suggested we have hamburgers on the grill. The problem was, we had no burger buns. For 90% of society they would have hopped in the car and went to the store and conveniently pick up buns that someone else made, but they would exchange money for. I live in a part of the world where it is faster to make the burger buns than it is to drive to town and buy them. And that is okay because I have honed my skillset so that I am not dependent on having to exchange my money for convenience foods like hamburger buns. These skills literally become money that I retain in my pocket. Come back tomorrow and I will share this simple hamburger bun recipe!
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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