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!
Thank you for joining me for this mid Ag Week check in, right here on Ranch Raised.
A major purpose of National Ag Week is to bring awareness to everyone how agriculture affects you every minute, of every day. We have become such a society of convenience and with more and more generations being further removed from farming and ranching, 98% of the American population does not give agriculture a second thought.
Take for example soybeans. Did you know that Henry Ford used soybeans for paint and plastic in his cars and today 80,000 US newspapers use soybean ink to print their papers! That is cool!
Americans consume 17.3 billion quarts of popcorn each year! What would do without America’s favorite whole grain snack! What is popcorn without butter? Well, it takes 21 pounds of whole milk to make one pound of butter. It takes 10 pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese!
While we are talking about the products we get from the magnificent bovine animals, most people have never realized that beef fat or tallow is used to produce so many products you use every day like cosmetics, soaps, candles, and even chewing gum!
Livestock has played a huge role in serving the medical field. Insulin, which is essential for people with diabetes, is extracted from the adrenal glands of hogs and cattle.
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children 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, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and 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 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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