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!
Welcome back to Ranch Raised.
I am in the middle of doing a little inventory around my mud room. You see, I have a STRONG philosophy about only buying Christmas gifts that are useful. Is that called being a “utilitarian”?
Myself and our two oldest daughters all wear the same size waterproof chore boots and we wear them hard! I better add a couple new pairs to Santa’s shopping list. That will be an easy find at our local lumber yard! I can’t be the only one that buys Christmas gifts at the local lumber yard??? Nothing says, “I love you” like the gift of warm and dry feet. My girls have never complained about getting a new pair of chore boots.
I am currently wearing a chore coat, that was in my stocking a few Christmases ago, that now has one side ripped completely open from an unfortunate horse back riding accident. It was a small hole until I mounted my horse last spring during AIing season and that small hole caught on my saddle horn without my noticing and I proceeded to spring up and into my saddle and my coat ripped from top to bottom. I thought, “well, its spring. I don’t need this heavy coat for a while.” Well, the time has come I need a coat that isn’t flopping open on the left side. Plus, the zipper has decided to go from fulltime to only working part time. Which leaves me doing gymnastics routines to get out of my coat most days and no one wants to see that.
And this is what Christmas on the ranch looks like. Tune in tomorrow for more stories and tales from these ranching trails!
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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.
karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
