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!
Thanks for starting your week with me right here on Ranch Raised.
Between the weather and all of the babies bounding around, I’m getting all of the spring feels! Our barn is buzzing with activity. The baby goat kids are growing and bouncing here and there and zooming all around the barn. The show heifers in the barn are getting that “spring itch”, if you know what I mean. The first show lambs will be added to the barn any day now. My mind is spinning wondering how many projects these girls will fill the barn with. But, it keeps their hearts, hands, and heads engaged in good practical work so I will let them keep working.
The hens are enjoying the sunshine and scratching outside. I’m feeling the gravitational pull to add a few more cluckers to our motley crew. After all, feeding a family like mine requires a pretty steady stream of eggs, not to mention all the extra baking we enjoy.
Today my husband and older girls are off to the Cedar Top Ranch Bull Sale, in Burwell, NE! Bull sale season is last chance for my husband to get some off the ranch socialization in before calving season hits and he happily holds himself hostage at home.
So, all the signs of spring are front and center if I do say so myself. I’m not naive enough to think that old man winter might not show up again, but I am happy to take these beautiful days!
So get outside, soak up some Vitamin D! Take the kids to the park or start on some early spring yard work. But above all, make it 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.
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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