Macy Strom has long known the power of Farm Bureau on the local level, and now she is using her grassroots county experience to promote agriculture around her region and state on the OKFB state board.
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ashington County Farm Bureau member Macy Strom has spent her entire life involved in agriculture, watching hard work and dedication blossom into growth and progress.
From building her family’s ranch alongside her husband, John, and their children to investing in Oklahoma’s agriculture community through Farm Bureau, Macy’s dedication to agriculture and her fellow agriculturalists has driven her to take an active roll in her local community.
Now, Macy is once again answering the call to service as she steps into the role of OKFB’s new district nine state director.
Macy grew up in the town of Pawhuska in northeastern Oklahoma’s Osage County where her family lived on 40 acres. The childhood experience of being around cattle, horses, chickens, pigs and more – combined with her involvement in 4-H – gave Macy a strong love for agriculture and livestock.
Her time in 4-H also connected her with John when the two were teenagers. While their families had ties in the area and the two had known each other off and on throughout their early years, a 4-H dance led to dating, marriage and building a family together.
While still in college at Oklahoma State University, a parcel of land came up for sale near the location where John had grown up.
With the help of John’s father, the couple purchased their first 360 acres and began their own agricultural journey. Throughout the years, the Stroms have added on to their ranch, which now includes pastures, hay meadows and fields. Today, the couple has a 700-head cow/calf herd that they raise in the Caney River bottom below Hulah Dam.
John and Macy raised two children in and around agriculture. Their daughter, April, now lives in Tulsa and continues to be a Farm Bureau member. Their son, Judd, ranches nearby, living in the house where John himself grew up, in addition to serving in the Oklahoma House of Representatives representing Oklahoma’s 10th house district, which spans portions of Nowata, Osage and Washington counties.
The call to become a Farm Bureau leader came in the late 1990s when Macy was asked to join the Washington County Farm Bureau board. The family had been Farm Bureau members in Washington County since the 1970s, and Macy stepped into a leadership role as a county Farm Bureau board member where she discovered an opportunity help connect fellow farmers and ranchers with opportunities to be a voice for agriculture.
“There were all these avenues for getting involved, serving in leadership positions and promoting agriculture in the state along with the opportunity to have some some legislative involvement,” Macy said.
A spot on the county Farm Bureau board turned into an opportunity to serve as president of Washington County Farm Bureau, a position she has held for more than 20 years.
“To me it is worth it because I can travel around the state and bring ideas back,” Macy said. “That’s the first thing we do when I get back, John and I sit down and talk about what I learned or what is happening that he might be interested in. I feel like it is worth that trip to keep the information flow coming to our counties up in this area.”
After decades of promoting agriculture and Farm Bureau both in Washington and Osage counties and at numerous Farm Bureau events around the state, Macy decided to run for a seat on the OKFB state board to represent the nine county Farm Bureaus that comprise OKFB’s 9th district.
She was elected to serve on the state board by fellow district OKFB members at OKFB’s 2025 annual meeting in Oklahoma City.
As a state Farm Bureau director, Macy said her aim to foster involvement in the organization and connect members of the agriculture community will not change, but will expand to the entire district and beyond.
“I want to make sure that everyone is informed about all the programs and leadership opportunities that Farm Bureau has to offer,” Macy said. “I also want everybody to know that they have a voice and that you are as much of a member with five cows and a garden tractor, as long as you’re involved in production agriculture.
“You have a voice, and it’s a very important voice. I want to make sure people know they can get involved and help Farm Bureau and agriculture grow.”
Macy said the power of Farm Bureau comes from working together as farmers and ranchers to speak up for agriculture and rural Oklahoma. Her involvement has taught Macy that the opportunity to be an advocate comes from taking an active role in the organization.
“If you are in ag, you need to be involved in Farm Bureau because Farm Bureau is the largest voice for agriculture in the state of Oklahoma,” Macy said. “There are great people at our state office who are working both for us and with us to offer programs that advocate for agriculture. The opportunities to meet your legislators and meet your government officials combined with the programs you can get involved in can all help you with your operation and help agriculture as a whole.”
For the Strom family, the importance of involvement in Farm Bureau centers on their love for agriculture and the desire to build something better for the future.
“There is so much you can accomplish and grow, like how we started with 360 acres, then transformed our place into what it is today,” Macy said. “It’s just the growth potential and the part that you feel like you are doing something for others when really you’re getting a lot of enjoyment, and you get to live out here like we do.
“I just encourage everybody to find what you love doing, and you’ll love doing it every day. That’s agriculture for us.”
