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!
Today we are going to veer completely off course, so ride along with me right here on Ranch Raised. While usually I am talking about feeding the masses with the great agriculture products that farmers and ranchers produce, today I am going to talk about feeding the mind.
March is National Reading Month! Reading is a skill that is highly valued in our home and our kids know that from a young age. In our early parenting years when we hardly had two nickels to rub together, we didn’t have money to spend on a lot of big toys or gifts for the girls. However, I could usually find inexpensive books and even offer that gift suggestion to other family members. Books provided us with hours of entertainment in those early years.
Now that our kids are older, they still hold on to the pleasure that reading provides them. I’ve watched my girls devour books about World War II and the Civil War. They can’t put down the “I Survived Series.” And now my youngest chapter book reader invests in any book about horses.
While I thought I had plenty of little kid books to make through a toddler, alas, I would be wrong. We have a little guy who loves books about tractors and trucks, so we are discovering new reading material right along with him!
Never miss an opportunity to read to a child! Encourage electronic free time in your home where your young readers must read to you. And even your middle and high school age kids need to read outside of school.
I have always held to the mantra that “readers are leaders!”
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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