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!
It’s Thanksgiving Week and I am thankful to have you tuning in to Ranch Raised.
What would a holiday week be on the ranch with out cattle work?!?! You heard me right?
Are we the only family that makes sure to pack holiday weeks with major ranch activities? While most are looking forward to the main meal and gathering with family on Thursday, we are running a million miles an hour on the ranch this week preparing for a gathering of another kind. We are gathering and shipping, and selling steer calves this week. Weeks like this have my head spinning wondering if there will be enough daylight hours to get it all done. It has to get done and somehow it always does.
Our evenings are sprinkled with the usual mix of meetings and various kids’ activities. And if I am lucky this blessed little babe lets me get a few hours of sleep in between. As farm and ranch women do, we learn to accept, juggle, and even embrace the chaos. Do we have any other choice?
So with all of our balls flying in the air this week and all the monkeys in our circus running around, we will be thankful to be able to do what we do, in the land of the free and in our home on the range.
As you grocery shop this week for your holiday meal, please check those labels and support the American farmers and ranchers that work so hard to keep you fed!
Have a great day!
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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.
[email protected] or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
