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!
So, yesterday was nationally known as Mother’s Day, but to most of us who ranch, it was more commonly kept as just another spring Sunday. I have honestly never been the celebratory type, so keeping the day regular and checking off the spring to do list, along side of my family, probably brings me the greatest satisfaction.
Like many ranch moms, I continue to serve my family, even on Mother’s Day because that is just how the good Lord designed me. So, it was a big breakfast of bacon, avocado, & egg breakfast burritos to start the day.
I usually have only one of two choices on Mother’s Day, branding or AIing. Since we had a beautiful blessing of an inch of rain the night before the neighbor postponed his branding, so that meant I had some wonderful help to make a little progress on planting the garden. Our AI guy was under the weather so that meant I was up to stick a few of my daughter’s herd that had come in to heat that morning. I have always said, “AIing on Mother’s Days means calving on Valentine’s Day!” Then it was back to the kitchen to whip up a big batch of cavatini pasta bake that my family had been requesting.
And with that I salute all of those farm and ranch mommas who never asked for a day to be celebrated but just keep on serving and working, because after all, having a day off during the spring madness would just be awkward. Cheers to another trip around the sun fulfilling our destiny! The hand that rocks the cradle rules the ranch!
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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.
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