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!
We have made it through the last full week of January marking this as the last Fun, Fact Friday of the month!
I can’t emphasize enough how big of breakfast eaters my co-habitants are. Pancakes, waffles, and French toast are absolute favorites. Well, you gotta have syrup, right. I grew up watching my mom and grandma made homemade maple syrup, so that is what I have always done for my family. I will share the recipe another time.
BUT, for Christmas we were gifted a half gallon of real, authentic Wisconsin maple syrup. We were so excited for this food experience. We love the flavor but were surprised at the consistency. It is much thinner than we expected, probably because I make our homemade stuff so thick, and you know, “syrup-y”.
Maple syrup season has begun! Sap from maple trees is collected during the tapping season — between February and April. These are the months when temperatures are above freezing during the day and below freezing at night, making the sap flow.
Vermont is the #1 producer of maple syrup in the US “tapping” into, get it?, 2.5 million gallons in 2022. New York and Wisconsin are the runner ups in production!
All I can say, is if you get the chance, purchase some REAL maple syrup, from American sources. It can create a great conversation around the breakfast table about real food and where it comes from.
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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