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!
Thanks for coming back to Ranch Raised! I am going to launch right back in to where I left off yesterday.
There is exciting news reaching the hills, plains, and mountains across the county. Infact, this is some of the best news that will affect every beef buying American as well as the largest ag sector in the country, the cattle industry. The American Beef Labeling Act was reintroduced this week in Congress and has now been assigned its bill number so it is Senate Bill 52!
A few years back Congress stripped the American consumer of being able to know where beef and pork were born, raised, and harvested. Weird, right?!?! Why would just beef and pork labeling be repealed? Well, there is a powerful meat lobby in the country that makes a lot of money off of imports, especially beef imports that they can passed off as being raised by folks like you and me. This is also a fraud to the American consumer!
I interviewed Senator John Thune yesterday on The Hot Barn Report. You can find that interview on the Your Ag Network app or website. He knows what we all are facing when we go to the grocery store. Country of Origin Labeling on beef is critical for consumers to be able to use their dollar to support who they want, the American cattle industry, who they have a high amount of confidence in!
Government is not just a noun. It is a verb which requires action from every one of us! Call that capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and tell your Senator to co-sponsor S. 52, The American Beef Labeling Act!
BREAKING NEWS
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) reintroduced the American Beef Labeling Act, legislation that would reinstate mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) for beef. [READ MORE]
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
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