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!
Is it just me or do the days fly by faster in the spring! Thanks for starting your week with me right here on Ranch Raised.
After 349 days of January, we blinked, and it is the first of May! Between the kid’s activities and the ranching chaos there isn’t much thumb twiddling going on around here.
Last week a couple of my girls had their annual school science fair. For the second year in a row, my 6th grade daughter and her partner, won first place in the Invention Convention with their invention, “The Beak Breaker.” You can tell that these are two country girls that need a solution to a pesky problem. They both have experiences with getting their hand pecked when trying to reach into the nesting box to gather eggs. So, their solution was to take a small piece of plexiglass to create a barrier between their hand and the ornery hen. They designed two prototypes. With one they attached a leather ring so you could weather the shield on the back of your hand. The other prototype involved attaching a cupboard doorknob to plexi glass so you could hold the shield while gathering the eggs. Viola, the beak breaker!
My first-grade daughter earned a second-place ribbon with her presentation on the life cycle of a horse.
You know I am a big fan of encouraging kids to take opportunities to grow in their public speaking skills so I will say that all of the kids that worked to come up with their idea, gather their facts, design a poster, organize a speech, and present to a panel of judges are ALL WINNERS!
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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