Ranch Raised with Karina Jones – Mothers Day on the Ranch

May 11, 2026 Karina Jones Featured, Ranch Raised 0

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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!

It is the Monday after Mother’s Day and I just thought that had a catchy ring to it! Thanks for starting your week with me right here on Ranch Raised. 

I hope you all had an all star weekend celebrating your momma or somebody’s momma this weekend. If you are involved in farming or ranching, I completely understand the challenge in taking the day to do that.

My husband and my older girls went to our south place with a load of heifers on Saturday. They returned late yesterday afternoon with some beautiful flowers for me and an armload of rhubarb that they had picked at our other place where the nights have clearly been milder than up here. I quickly went to cutting and got a pan of strawberry rhubarb crisp in the oven and some steaks out to throw on the grill. 

At 5:30 my husband said, “Hey honey, the wind isn’t blowing. Lets go pull a windmill and replace the leathers. It won’t take long.” But the truth is, it did take long because once we started the project we realized there were other problems. But, my husband is not a guy to quite a job early just because challenges present. No, no, no. So we got home a few hours later. Kids hungry and wondering where we had been since we had absolutely no cell service. We still threw the steaks on the grill. Ate a late supper. And today, we still have a windmill to get back together, once we track down the parts! 

Cheers to Mother’s Day on the ranch! Come back tomorrow, I’m going to share my recipe for that Strawberry Rhubarb crisp that I’ve been whipping up for years!

karina@youragnetwork.com or visit facebook.com/ranchraisedwithkarinajones


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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.