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!
Happy Monday and thanks for starting your week with us right here on Ranch Raised.
Do any other parents of school age children get to this time of year and feel like you are a hamster just trying to stay on the spinning wheel?!?
The spring music concerts, the end of year banquets, and all the spring things happening to close out the year. It can be overwhelming and I don’t even have kids in sports!
The balance between parenting life and ranch or farm life this time of year can be described as walking a tightrope the diameter of dental floss. I know I am always just one hour away from forgetting a kid’s activity or missing the alarm to pull CIDRS on heifers. Then of course for a few short weeks, I have to purposely shut out any thoughts of working in my garden because there just are not enough hours in the day. I guess watering my rhubarb will just have to be considered “gardening” for this short while.
I salute the generations before us who have weathered these challenges and I salute my fellow parenting peers who are in the thick of chaos.
I better wrap this up! I am off to chauffeur my two oldest girls to their first 4-H contest of the year, the county Public Speaking and PSA contest! Have a great day!
Follow Karina Jones on Facebook!
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 3 daughters 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 current 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 that is broadcast on 60 radio stations with coverage in 9 states, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and highlights R-CALF’s work on 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 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
