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!
My condition was worsening like a down cow in March! If you need to catch up on my maternal saga, check out this week’s Ranch Raised episodes on the Your Ag Network App or website.
My blood pressure continued to escalate. I was doing a lot of laying around, moaning and groaning with every movement. Just like when you walk through the calving lot in the middle of the night. There are heavy sighs and groans from those cows that are just days away from giving birth. Yup, that was me.
I’m just sure my husband was running scenarios through his head of how he was going to rig up the cow hip lifter in the event that I went completely down.
But alas, it was determined that my time in gestation needed to be assisted to an end for the safety of the baby and I. But, lo and behold, we would learn that there is a nationwide Pitocin shortage so all elective inductions have been halted. I could read my husband’s mind in that tiny doctor’s room. He was thinking, “I have a bottle oxytocin on the top shelf of my cabinet. I will run home and grab it. We can provide our own!” After finding sufficient medical reasoning, I was admitted to the hospital, started on Pitocin and was holding our new little cowboy just a few hours later.
So, one would expect that this is where this warm fuzzy story would be wrapped up with a pretty little blue bow. Oh no, delivering this little bundle of joy was not the end of this sage. I will wrap up tomorrow, so meet be back here on Ranch Raised!
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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.
karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
