Meet Anita, a Nebraska Woman In Ag

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Meet Anita on her Cherry County ranch. We hope to see you at the Nebraska Women in Agriculture Conference. http://wia.unl.edu/

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[00:00:01.241](banjo music)
[00:00:02.558]I live on a ranch here with my husband Kerry Keys.
[00:00:04.699]We met in college, moved out here to the ranch.
[00:00:08.390]Cow-calf operation.
[00:00:10.172]We have native prairie hay.
[00:00:12.764]Ours is all dry land.
[00:00:14.595](splashing)
[00:00:15.428]And I've a pretty traditional role here,
[00:00:17.365]more like what our mothers had for a role,
[00:00:19.407]keeping the home going,
[00:00:20.657]having a hot meal on the table,
[00:00:22.514]running to town for parts,
[00:00:24.070]and Kerry's very supportive of this,
[00:00:25.726]and just sees the value of that,
[00:00:27.317]you know, having that done.
[00:00:28.536]I also am on-call, like when we brand,
[00:00:31.221]or when we sort cattle, I get involved in that.
[00:00:33.478]Or moving equipment, it's like,
[00:00:34.590]"I need you to run me up to the field",
[00:00:36.254]that sort of thing.
[00:00:37.832]I do a big garden, I do a lot of canning
[00:00:40.010]and all those sorts of things.
[00:00:42.301]Okay, now I didn't go to Women in Ag
[00:00:44.049]until after my kids were out of the house.
[00:00:47.089]I've got neighbors that have pre-schoolers,
[00:00:49.267]they went this year, had a ball
[00:00:51.197]and got lots of value out of it.
[00:00:52.716]When you look at the workshop assortment,
[00:00:54.912]in there are a lot of choices, which is really nice.
[00:00:57.469]I have found value in some of the things,
[00:01:00.388]I do Ag in the Classroom,
[00:01:01.519]so I've gotten some really good resources from there.
[00:01:04.458]And all these are beef by-products.
[00:01:07.343]The networking is wonderful, the ladies that you meet,
[00:01:10.378]and they have similar situations,
[00:01:12.074]they understand, they get it, you know, kind of a deal.
[00:01:14.706]Another thing they're really big at planning,
[00:01:16.638]talking about is estate planning.
[00:01:19.133]And a lot of our keynote speakers at Women in Ag
[00:01:21.360]have been related to that.
[00:01:22.607]And that is something we on our ranch have done now,
[00:01:24.276]is some really extensive estate planning,
[00:01:26.310]partially because of what I've learned at Women in Ag.
[00:01:29.790]A lot of the stuff that she brings back from the
[00:01:31.689]Ag and the Women Conference is stuff that
[00:01:33.939]probably I've thought about but never really considered
[00:01:36.585]and so she challenges me with
[00:01:38.237]the information that she brings.
[00:01:40.063]And so we take that information and begin to incorporate it
[00:01:42.268]in different ways into our ranching operation.
[00:01:44.865]Yes, I'm glad I've taken the time
[00:01:47.116]to be part of Women in Ag.
[00:01:47.949]I think it's a worthwhile thing to go to,
[00:01:49.913]and I'd encourage you to go to it too.
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