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!
There is something about waking up the day after Easter and just knowing that spring has sprung! Thanks for starting your week with me right here on Ranch Raised!
I know, “don’t count your chicks before they hatch.” I know we could still get a nasty April blizzard but it just feels like once you get past Easter on the calendar you just feel more “springy”!
While we did fight the wind and the dirt, as we are considerably drier than our neighbors to the north, this weekend brought a lot of new baby calves to the herd. Their mommas hardly even had to lick on them. Mother Nature and her great blow dryer made short work of getting them all dried off!
We did not get our potatoes planted on Good Friday, but we have made great progress on the getting the garden cleaned up. The dad gum wind has made it tough to work in the garden. I need to get our seed potatoes but I think the girls should be able to start punching some holes this week and getting them in the ground.
I took our 7 year old into our community Easter Egg hunt! I always appreciate the work done by those in our community to provide such a happy event for our kids, including our 4-H club that helped fill hundreds of those plastic eggs with candy. The older girls enjoyed soaking up some sun and washing show cattle. So that was our weekend in review.
The kids are enjoying one last day home on Easter break which is only increasing their spring fever. Their little bottoms will have a hard time sitting in their seats these next few weeks as they just want to break out and be free for the summer!
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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.
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