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!
Forecasting the future. Thanks for joining me today on Ranch Raised.
I am in the small minority of the population that checks the weather forecast multiple times a day, like my livelihood depends on it, because, well, it does. We need the wind to blow to pump windmills to water cows. We need moisture to grass to feed cows. When you are in the grips of a drought, you cling tightly to the truth that you are one day closer to a rain. We have went through a few dry and windy weeks, here in north central Nebraska. We know the sub irrigating qualities on ranch are what is sustaining our grass to the degree it is, but our meadows are in dire need of a drink if any hopes of a haying season are to be.
Suddenly, our forecast is giving us hope. We are looking ahead to a cool down that is promising to bringing moisture for multiple days in a row. I can not tell you what it does to our spirits to see this forecast on the horizon. When hope is all you have to keep you waking up another day to face these decisions and stress, you need something to feed that hope. What we are seeing in the forecast does just that, it feeds our hope.
There is a reason that farmers and ranchers are a dying breed. If the markets aren’t trying to put us out of business, Mother Nature usually is. There is so much that is out of our control. It will humble you to your core. When the weight of all this building, don’t hold it all to yourself. Talk to your spouse, a neighbor, a friend. These issues are no bag of small fries. They are real and really hard. Let’s all say a collective prayer that our hopes are quenched with the fruition of this forecast and that we really are one day closer to receiving some significant rain.
karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones
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