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 are off to the races or maybe off and racing into 2024! Thanks for stopping by today on Ranch Raised.
We are in that sort of sweet spot on the ranch, if you can call doing chores in the cold of January a sweet spot. The days are pretty predictable for the most part and there is a rhythm to them. It goes, feeding, feeding, chop ice, feeding, feeding, chop ice….sort of like a waltz, you get the picture. There is a mid-day break for lunch and to enjoy time with the kids.
Our little boy is loving being his dad’s right hand feeding man. Mostly messing with the radio and making sure the blinkers and wipers get turned every time his dad gets out of the pickup. He screams and pounds on the door every morning when my husband runs outside to start his feeding pickup to warm up and then quickly returns to the house to finish his coffee. Little guy is very vocal in his reminder, “Dad you are not leaving me in this house! I am going with you!”
The girls and I are going to work on getting some things packed up and off to a donation center somewhere. It is time to turn over the playroom and get all the dolls and their accessories out of there because I have a tractor-loving, skid steer obsessed, hot wheel playing little guy that needs room for his toys.
And then it will be back to the waltz of doing evening chores before the sun sets on another day at the Jones Ranch.
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 former 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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