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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

Pontotoc County Farm Bureau held this field day in 1953 at their demonstration farm to show local farmers new agricultural practices.
Pontotoc County Farm Bureau held this field day in 1953 at their demonstration farm to show local farmers new agricultural practices.
Oklahoma Farm Bureau Board Member Bob Drake of Murray County signs an OKFB cap that was passed around to members at the 2009 State Resolutions Committee meeting, showing support for the American Farm Bureau Federation’s “Don’t cap our future” campaign. The campaign rallied against a proposed “cap and trade” scheme of environmental controls that was being proposed in Congress. Two signed caps were sent to Washington, D.C., to show OKFB support for the campaign, one of which was used on the U.S. Senate floor by Sen. Jim Inhofe during debate on the bill.
Oklahoma Farm Bureau Board Member Bob Drake of Murray County signs an OKFB cap that was passed around to members at the 2009 State Resolutions Committee meeting, showing support for the American Farm Bureau Federation’s “Don’t cap our future” campaign. The campaign rallied against a proposed “cap and trade” scheme of environmental controls that was being proposed in Congress. Two signed caps were sent to Washington, D.C., to show OKFB support for the campaign, one of which was used on the U.S. Senate floor by Sen. Jim Inhofe during debate on the bill.
1953 Cleveland County Oklahoma Junior Farm Bureau
During the Cleveland County Junior Farm Bureau organizational banquet in Norman in 1953, more than 50 members selected officers to lead their newly formed group. The officers elected were (left to right) Joe Merkle and Bob Bates, Vice Presidents; J.C. Shroyer, President; and Patsy Steele, Secretary.

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