Adam and Nicole Martens of Major County are the 2012 recipients of Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement award. They were recognized as OFB’s top YF&R farming and ranching couple at the organization’s 71st Annual Convention Nov. 10, in Oklahoma City.

As Achievement winners, the Martens family received a new WW Livestock Systems squeeze chute and an all-expense-paid trip to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Annual Convention next January in Nashville, Tenn.

Adam and Nicole farm nearly 750 acres of wheat near Fairview. They also manage a 70-head cow/calf operation and run 160 stocker cattle. They are graduates of Oklahoma State University and have two children: Sydney, 8 and Reed, 6.

The Martens couple has been involved in Farm Bureau since 2005. Adam currently serves as the Major County Farm Bureau YF&R chairman and a member of the county resolutions committee, and the couple served as YF&R State Committee chairs in 2011.

OFB’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Program is open to both men and women, ages 18 to 35, who hold a membership in his or her county Farm Bureau.

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Brent Straub (left), presents Adam and Nicole Martens of Fairview, Okla., with the 2012 Oklahoma Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Achievement Award. The Martens received the honor during the 2012 OFB Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City Nov. 10.

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Adam and Nicole Martens of Fairview, Okla., pose with the prizes they received after being named winners of the 2012 Oklahoma Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Achievement Award in Oklahoma City on Nov. 10. The Martens receive a WW Livestock Systems chute, a John Deere lawnmower from P&K Equipment and an Echo chainsaw.

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