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75 Years Strong history book now available

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Celebrating 75 Years of Oklahoma Farm Bureau History

Welcome to the Oklahoma Farm Bureau 75th anniversary website. Throughout 2017, we will be looking back at 75 years of our organization’s history and examine the people, places, and programs that formed Oklahoma’s largest farm organization.

Browse through our photo galleries, read through Farm Bureau history and check out the blog for unique moments in Oklahoma Farm Bureau history.

If this is your first visit to our 75th anniversary site, be sure to check out our welcome blog post, which outlines the features and sections of the site along with an overview of our history.

Moments in OKFB History

The latest from OKFB's history blog

OKFB launches the Votemobile

During the early years of Oklahoma Farm Bureau, the number of voters nationwide was a concern. OKFB reported that only 51 percent of eligible voters went to the polls in the 1948 presidential election. The American Farm Bureau Federation suggested the use of educational programs and contests to increase the number of voters, particularly in rural areas. … Continue Reading...

A voice for agriculture

By Dan Arnold, OKFB executive secretary, published in the first issue of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Farmer magazine in June 1949 Farm Bureau is a Service Organization, and is now the only Farmers Organization through which nation-wide farm thinking and united action can be reflected for him and his family. … Continue Reading...

A Farm Bureau Member’s Creed

By John I. Taylor, first OKFB president, and published in the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Farmer in December 1951 I am a human being living in a land of unlimited horizon. Having been born here, or journeyed here by choice, matters little, but the fact that my life and living are here is of great importance. … Continue Reading...

From the Gallery

Ted Payne, Oklahoma Farm Bureau Safety Director (second from left), and Col. L.M. Tidd of the American Automobile Association (left), thanks Trooper Bill Price (second from right) and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for being a part of the “Learn and Live” program just before the show winners were presented. The 1968 program involved five high schools located in central Oklahoma, including schools in Guthrie, Chickasha, Moore, Shawnee and Putnam City. Teams participated in the quiz-based television show by answering questions taken from the Oklahoma traffic code.
Ted Payne, Oklahoma Farm Bureau Safety Director (second from left), and Col. L.M. Tidd of the American Automobile Association (left), thanks Trooper Bill Price (second from right) and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for being a part of the “Learn and Live” program just before the show winners were presented. The 1968 program involved five high schools located in central Oklahoma, including schools in Guthrie, Chickasha, Moore, Shawnee and Putnam City. Teams participated in the quiz-based television show by answering questions taken from the Oklahoma traffic code.
County Farm Bureaus’ annual meetings were often well attended by both members and non-members. Pictured above are D.G. Meier Jr., Bennie Tice and Orval Swain enjoying coffee and doughnuts provided by Mrs. O.E. Redden and Mrs. Meier after the business session of Blaine County Farm Bureau’s annual meeting in 1957. The event was also attended by a number of foreign agricultural information workers who were touring the nation to study American information and extension services.
County Farm Bureaus’ annual meetings were often well attended by both members and non-members. Pictured above are D.G. Meier Jr., Bennie Tice and Orval Swain enjoying coffee and doughnuts provided by Mrs. O.E. Redden and Mrs. Meier after the business session of Blaine County Farm Bureau’s annual meeting in 1957. The event was also attended by a number of foreign agricultural information workers who were touring the nation to study American information and extension services.
In 1953, a group including 16 OKFB members took a trip to the scenic Gulf Coast to study ways to make Farm Bureau better during an annual training school of the southern region of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Biloxi, Mississippi. The entire group stands in front of the beautiful Buena Vista Hotel, where the training school was headquartered.
In 1953, a group including 16 OKFB members took a trip to the scenic Gulf Coast to study ways to make Farm Bureau better during an annual training school of the southern region of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Biloxi, Mississippi. The entire group stands in front of the beautiful Buena Vista Hotel, where the training school was headquartered.

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