Oklahoma Farm Bureau members are encouraged to attend the organization’s 2024 Leadership Conference Tuesday, Feb. 13, at the Embassy Suites Downtown Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The one-day event will give Farm Bureau members the opportunity to hone their leadership skills, hear about the latest Farm Bureau news, and learn about legislative and regulatory issues that affect agriculture from lawmakers, state officials and leaders from around the state. The evening will conclude with a legislative reception and awards dinner. Featured speakers and guests include Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture Blayne Arthur, NonDoc Editor in Chief Tres Savage, AFBF Economist Danny Munch […]
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OKFB members gear up for AFBF resolutions session in Salt Lake City
Oklahoma Farm Bureau members will make the trek to Salt Lake City, Utah, later this week to attend the 2024 American Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Jan. 19-24. Five voting delegates elected by members at OKFB’s annual meeting in November 2023 will represent Oklahoma at the business session Tuesday, Jan. 23, where dozens of grassroots national policy resolutions will be presented for consideration. OKFB members have their eyes on several topics set for discussion during the business session, including emergency and disaster preparedness. Oklahoma’s unpredictable weather patterns often leave farmers and ranchers with significant crop and livestock losses from drought, hailstorms, […]
Lucas honored with AFBF Distinguished Service Award
Rep. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma is the recipient of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2024 Distinguished Service Award. Lucas will be recognized during the upcoming 2024 American Farm Bureau Convention, Jan. 19-24, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The award is among the highest honors presented by AFBF. Lucas is a fifth-generation Oklahoman and farmer who has been a defender of agriculture for more than 40 years. With a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Oklahoma State University, he successfully brought the perspective of the American farmer with him to Capitol Hill. Elected to Congress in 1994, he is recognized […]
Pfeiffer appointed to Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board
Logan County Farm Bureau member Gaye Pfeiffer has been appointed to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board. Pfeiffer’s appointment was announced January 2 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She was one of 26 members appointed to serve on the board. Twenty-five members will serve three-year terms and one member will serve a one-year term. The term of board members appointed to three-year terms start February 2024 and end February 2027. Pfeiffer and her husband, John, raise Angus cattle along with their two adult sons on their family farm and ranch near Mulhall. The Pfeiffer family also raises hair […]
Harmon named senior director of Young Farmers & Ranchers
Oklahoma Farm Bureau has named Burton Harmon as the organization’s senior director of Young Farmers and Ranchers. In his new position, Harmon will work alongside OKFB’s grassroots-elected YF&R Committee to coordinate programs and events for Oklahoma agriculturalists ages 18-35 to help young Farm Bureau members develop their leadership, advocacy and business skills. Harmon has worked alongside YF&R members for decades going back to his time on the state YF&R committee as a Farm Bureau member. He also worked alongside county YF&R committees as a north central field representative. “I am excited to work with our future agricultural leaders through Farm […]
Oklahoma Grassroots Rural & Ag Business Accelerators 2024 program application now open through March 1
Applications for Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s 2024 Oklahoma Grassroots Rural & Ag Business Accelerators program year are now open until March 1 for rural Oklahoma and agricultural innovators looking to develop their enterprises and deepen their business understanding. The Activate Oklahoma rural innovation pipeline provides resources and assistance for innovative rural Oklahoma businesses that have an innovation or product that will bring economic opportunities to rural Oklahoma. The newly revamped AgCelerate Oklahoma agricultural innovation pipeline is for innovators who have innovations and technologies with an on-farm or production agriculture application that will help diversify opportunities for farmers. The AgCelerate pipeline prepares […]
OKFB praises attorney general for defending wage determination process
Oklahoma Farm Bureau applauds Attorney General Gentner Drummond for his efforts to uphold Oklahoma’s constitutional process to determine fair wages through his opposition to Initiative Petition 446, which would be put to a vote of the people as State Question 832. Drummond filed a brief Thursday with the Oklahoma Supreme Court in support of the OKFB Legal Foundation’s challenge to Initiative Petition 446, which would establish the state question to raise minimum wage. Drummond sided with the OKFB Legal Foundation in the brief, calling the measure “an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority” with intent to delegate legislative power to a […]
Private applicators license recertification deadline is Dec. 31
Oklahoma Farm Bureau encourages farmers and ranchers who hold a private applicators license to recertify their licenses that may be up for renewal. Holders of private applicators licenses in the state of Oklahoma who received a renewal notification letter from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry need to recertify their licenses that are up for renewal either by mail or online process by December 31, 2023. The notification letter shows the number of continuing education units a licensee holds, how many CEUs are needed for renewal (if any) and includes instructions for renewal. For questions about the renewal […]
OKFB Foundation for Agriculture awards local schools with $10,000 greenhouse grants
The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture recently selected Roland Public Schools and Navajo Public Schools to receive the $10,000 Growing with the Foundation grant. The Growing with the Foundation grant is designed to help students learn about agriculture through assisting schools with the purchase of a teaching greenhouse. “We are proud to award Roland and Navajo Public Schools with the Growing with the Foundation grant,” said David VonTungeln, OKFB Foundation for Agriculture president. “As our society becomes further removed from the farm, we appreciate the commitment these schools have to teaching their students about where their food comes from.” […]
Join OKFB for ag defense fundraiser Dec. 9 in Tulsa
Oklahoma Farm Bureau invites OKFB members and agriculture community friends to attend the 2023 OKFB Ag Defense Fundraiser at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa Saturday, Dec. 9.
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