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!
There’s a difference in livin’ and livin’ well! Well, there sure is, George! Welcome to a brand new week right here on Ranch Raised!
We had a weekend full to the brim from sun up to well past sun down! The girls were able to get some of their lambs out to a jackpot show not too far from home. They had a great day. Taking only lambs meant we got home a lot earlier than usual. So we changed clothes and decided to fight the heat by sitting in the Niobrara River just up the road.
Father’s Day was filled with you know, Father’s Day activities. By that I mean, putting out bulls to reunite with their groups of baby mommas. The girls rode with my husband in the morning shuffling the bovine daddies to their groups of cows.
After lunch our hoof trimmer showed up to give the show heifers pedicures. Then it was back in the saddle for my husband and I as we pushed some bulls to some of our furthest groups of cows. I probably 8 miles in the saddle in the afternoon and my husband had double that for the day.
We got home around sun down. The kids had just thrown the ribeyes on the grill and had the water boiling for the corn on the cob that we would greatly enjoy as we said goodbye to another hard working day.
And for my husband there could be no better Father’s Day. He spent most of the day in the saddle with his family by his side. He sat at the dinner table thankful for that family and was treated with a meal fit for a king.
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children near Merriman, 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.
karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
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