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!
If you don’t question your life choices at least a couple of times a day during the month of May, are you even farming or ranching? Welcome to this Tuesday edition of Ranch Raised.
I’m pretty sure that I told you about a month ago that the buildup to the month of May gives me anxiety and then when it hits you just keep swimming hoping to keep your head above water, but you are really drowning but most of those around you in this industry are drowning too, so there is really never anyone to throw you a life jacket.
Setting up females to AI, AIing, branding, semen checking bulls, lining up trucks, pairing out, going to grass, knowing full well, the alfalfa is going to be ready by Memorial Day. The vet was out today to semen check bulls, bangs vaccinate heifers, vaccinate all our dogs (I know, not ideal but needs done for 4-H rules), and look at a show lamb that has some issues all in the rain! Oye Vey!
I keep reminding myself that these days will soon be over, and I can recover, sort like a woman recovers after childbirth by going home and putting in a load of laundry, doing the dishes that her family used while she was birthing, and sorting through the mail. Soon June will be here, and we can look forward to looking at cattle out on grass, wondering how we are going to fight the flies and praying that pink eye doesn’t plague us.
I swear whomever designated May as Mental Health Awareness month must have been a rancher! So keep going forward friends, one day at time. We are all in this together.
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.
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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