In December 1938, Clarence Roberts, editor of The Farmer-Stockman, took an unofficial delegation of observers to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting in New Orleans in hopes to inspire the creation of an Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
Although Roberts hoped the trip would instigate a rapid movement to create Oklahoma’s own Farm Bureau, it would be another few years before the state’s organization emerged. No official record was kept of who went on the trip, but the best list of attendees includes: J. Buell Cronkite, Blaine County rancher; Frank Dunaway, Oklahoma County rancher; Francis Flood, associate editor of The Farmer-Stockman; Robert L. Fry, Canadian County dairyman; Lyle L. Hague, Alfalfa County wheat farmer; Albert Haley, Oklahoma County dairyman; Frank Kubicek, Pottawatomie County farmer; Clarence Reeds, Cleveland County farmer; Clarence Roberts, editor of The Farmer-Stockman; Clarence Scott, Blaine County banker-farmer; and Henry Weber, Kingfisher County farmer.