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!
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Did anyone else ever watch The Magic Schoolbus show on PBS growing up?
As an adult and parent, now, I think back to that show and how genius it was. Miss Frizzel saw a learning opportunity in even the most ordinary situations.
I find that opportunity for learning, whether we are looking for it or not, in ranching every day. Yesterday, we let our oldest daughter skip school to go to the salebarn with us to watch our annual spring calf crop sell. While she may have been skipping public school, she was absolutely receiving an education of the real-world kind.
As I have said before, we take every opportunity to provide our kids an education outside of the classroom. There is no short course in how to become a rancher. I’m becoming more and more sure that there is no formal education in how to be a successful adult.
I’m about out of time here, so tomorrow, I will share with you the education my daughter got on her field trip to the sale barn. But, I will leave you with this thought. We all have youth and young adults all around us. Let’s make sure we are doing all we can to help educate them about our rural way of life. Maybe that is just living by example all of the time, not just when young eyes are upon us.
I’m not done with subject, so come right back tomorrow to Ranch Raised.
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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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