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!
I pledge my hands to larger service!
Thanks for joining me right here on Ranch Raised!
Did anyone start reciting my opening line right along with me? Well, if you did, that is the true mark of current or past 4-H member. As I said yesterday, February is National 4-H month.
Besides helping youth build an incredible arsenal of skills, one of the most rewarding aspects as parent is watching my kids actively engage in community service opportunities on a regular basis. During the winter months you can find my kids working alongside their 4-H club members to braid denim dog toys that will be donated to police service dogs and used in narcotic scent detection training. Or you will find them assembling Christmas cookie baking kits to donate to our local food pantry. Some years they put their artistic skills to good use and make hundreds of Valentine’s Day Cards for the local nursing homes. Just this past weekend their club filled hundreds of plastic Easter eggs that will be donated to our local Easter egg hunt.
During the summer they volunteer their time to helping their peers improve their livestock and dog showing skills.
Let this serve as more than a reminder of our civic duty to be helpful citizens, let’s put some feet into motion and some hands into serving. Every hour spent in community service is an hour that you are investing in your community. Afterall, this community is YOURS just as much as it is mine. Let’s let it reflect our best.
Have a great day!
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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