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Oklahoma Farm Bureau members in the organization’s district six reelected James Fuser of Ottawa County to serve on the OKFB board of directors. As the district six director, Fuser will represent Farm Bureau members throughout  Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers, Sequoyah and Wagoner Counties. “It’s an honor for me to have the opportunity to serve Farm Bureau members in district six,” Fuser said. “I look forward to continually working alongside our grassroots members to move agriculture and rural Oklahoma forward.” Fuser is a third-generation farmer and rancher who raises soybeans, corn, wheat and hay, in […]

Farmers and ranchers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic now have until Sept. 11, 2020, to apply for direct payments through the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. The announcement comes following a request by the American Farm Bureau Federation and 27 other agriculture organizations to extend the application period beyond the original Aug. 28 deadline. “COVID-19 has taken its toll on farmers across the country, regardless of what they grow or raise,” AFBF President Zippy Duvall said in a statement. “No one can tell when this pandemic will end, and extending the deadline and expanding eligibility will provide a lifeline at […]

Oklahoma Farm Bureau welcomes the USDA’s recent investment of more than $29 million toward expanding broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Oklahoma. The investment is part of the $100 million in grant funding made available for the ReConnect Pilot Program through the CARES Act. “Though rural Oklahomans have suffered from a lack of reliable broadband access for years, the ongoing global pandemic has heightened the inequalities that exist in internet connectivity among rural, suburban and urban Oklahomans as much of the world has moved online for distance learning, telecommuting and health care services,” said Rodd Moesel, OKFB president. “Expanding […]

The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture and the Ford Motor Company are teaming up to put agriculture education resources in the hands of teachers and students across the country. The Ford Motor Company is sponsoring the distribution of 285 kits, each containing one copy of the Foundation’s 2020 Book of the Year, “Full of Beans,” an educator guide and a classroom set (30-pack) of Soybeans Ag Mags. Educators passionate about helping learners understand agriculture are encouraged to apply by Aug. 24. Grant winners will be randomly selected from the pool of applicants, and resource kits will be sent to […]

Rural Oklahomans now have less than two months left to be counted in the 2020 Census. The U.S. Census Bureau will end self-response and field operations on Sept. 30, a month earlier than the previous Oct. 31 deadline, according to a recent statement. The new deadline is a part of an effort to “accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts by our statutory deadline of December 31, 2020, as required by law and directed by the Secretary of Commerce,” U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham said in the statement. The census effort originally was scheduled to be completed […]

Oklahoma Farm Bureau will host a live webinar on Monday, Aug. 3 featuring Gov. Kevin Stitt regarding the Oklahoma Commission on Cooperative Sovereignty, created to address concerns and make recommendations to the state and to Congress after the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings in McGirt v. Oklahoma and Sharp v. Murphy. The webinar will be held on Monday, Aug. 3 at 7 p.m central time. Stitt will be joined on the call by McCurtain County Farm Bureau member Brent Bolen, a newly appointed member of the cooperative sovereignty commission, and OKFB President Rodd Moesel. Created through a recent executive order, […]