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!
We have flipped another page in the calendar….does anyone really do that anymore? Anyway, welcome to July! Thanks for joining me today on Ranch Raised.
Half of 2025 is already behind us and it seems like these half way points in the year cause me more reflection than any other time of year. We’ve made it through calving, AIing, and going to grass. We are looking forward to haying, weaning, and shipping in the next half of the year.
And yet despite the changing of the ranching seasons which happen every year like clockwork, 2025 has been full of more life changes and challenges than my family has ever faced and I didn’t even birth a baby this year!
We are still in the middle of literally moving a ranching operation to our new location. And while everything is changing for my family in so many ways I guess it is the predictable ranching seasons that do keep us grounded and saying, “its the same, just different.”
We are very much in a season of letting go what we thought would be and instead embracing the blessings that have come our way on the path we are on. We could have never planned for what 2025 would throw at us. But, so far, we are taking on each challenge the best we can because if I know anything about life, it never gets easier and I believe we are just being sharpened for what’s to come.
So hats off to surviving the first half of 2025 and cheers to what’s to come!
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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