Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s Comanche County Young Farmers and Ranchers committee is the 2013 recipient of the Charles L. Roff Award. The award was announced in Norman at the OKFB 72nd Annual Convention, Nov. 15. The Charles L. Roff Award encourages county YF&R groups to improve their local committees and activity participation while strengthening the Farm Bureau organization. Comanche County YF&R’s highlight activities for the year included sponsoring a farmhand Olympics, assisting at several county livestock shows, hosting speech contests and coordinating the OKFB fire safety trailer at local schools. Comanche County YF&R received a traveling plaque in recognition for their […]
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Okmulgee County Farm Bureau recognized for local affairs
Oklahoma Farm Bureau named Okmulgee County the Lewis H. Munn Farm Bureau Builders award winner during the OKFB 72nd Annual Convention, Nov. 15, in Norman. The award is named after the second president of Oklahoma Farm Bureau, and each year a specific area of involvement is judged for the award. This year’s area was local affairs. Okmulgee County worked hard to present a day of agriculture education to the local youth through the local multicultural association. By partnering with the Southwest Dairy Growers, the county presented a local program that included using a dairy cow to demonstrate the milking process […]
Legislative Update with John Collison
In this edition of Legislative Update, I want to talk about the one major issue that still plagues our state and the major agricultural states to our west. It is the continuance of a drought that is now growing into its third year. This drought has now locked itself into western Oklahoma, with a growing cost near $1.5 billion dollars in agricultural economic loss. Please read that again. Oklahoma agriculture has lost $1.5 billion dollars in the last three years due to the lack of rain and water planning. In looking at the U.S. Geological Survey history of 2013 […]
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