Nearly 50 Oklahoma Farm Bureau members traveled to the Hoosier state April 27-30 to learn about Indiana agriculture with OKFB’s 2026 Ag Tour. Indiana was selected as the destination for the 2026 tour after previous OKFB President Rodd Moesel made a friendly wager with Indiana Farm Bureau President Randy Kron during the 2025 NBA Finals as the Oklahoma City Thunder took on the Indiana Pacers. OKC won the series, and as part of the wager, Indiana Farm Bureau agreed to host OKFB members on a tour to learn about agriculture in the state. OKFB members traveled to the Indianapolis area […]
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Legislative update: 2026 legislative session nears the finish line after final major committee deadline
The end of the 2026 Oklahoma legislative session is on the horizon as lawmakers enter the last few weeks of work at the state Capitol. With the sine die deadline just under a month away, bills are making their way through the legislative process on the opposite side of the rotunda from which they began. After the last major committee deadline passed on Thursday, April 23, only bills that advanced from their opposite-chamber committee remain alive for consideration on the floor, and of the hundreds of bills Oklahoma Farm Bureau was tracking at the beginning of session, several remain viable. […]
OKFB WLC holds annual conference for Farm Bureau women in Norman
More than 120 Oklahoma Farm Bureau women from around the state gathered for a weekend of fellowship, service and learning during the 2026 OKFB Women’s Leadership Committee’s annual statewide conference April 24-25 at the Embassy Suites in Norman. The conference featured group tours, breakout sessions, a silent auction and networking opportunities. The conference kicked off Friday, April 24, with a trip to Selah, an urbanism community in Norman, where members had lunch at Pryor’s Pizza Kitchen and toured Evergreen Academy, a learner-driven, self-paced education academy that breaks away from traditional school models. The group then split into two, with one […]
Ten Oklahoma students awarded $1,000 YF&R scholarships
The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers committee has awarded nine $1,000 scholarships to one high school senior from each OKFB district and a $1,000 scholarship to a Collegiate Farm Bureau member. The scholarships were awarded to students who plan to pursue a degree in an agriculture-related field at an Oklahoma college or university and who desire to contribute to agriculture and rural Oklahoma. “Supporting scholarships today means strengthening agriculture tomorrow,” said Allison Theis, OKFB YF&R chair. “When we invest in our youth, we invest in the future of our communities and our industry. We are incredibly proud of […]
Schulz joins OKFB as southwest field representative
Ben Schulz has joined the Oklahoma Farm Bureau field services team as the new southwest field representative. In his position, Schulz will serve as a liaison between 13 county Farm Bureaus in southwestern Oklahoma and the OKFB home office. He will work to connect Farm Bureau members and leaders with the organization’s programs, activities and advocacy efforts while sharing news and information from southwestern Oklahoma members with the rest of the organization. A native of Altus, Schulz is a third-generation family farmer who was born and raised helping his family grow cotton, wheat, milo and corn. He was active in […]
Legislative update: State budget heads to governor, bills moving quickly through the legislature
As the 2026 Oklahoma legislative session moves swiftly toward its final month, the pace of activity and action has increased as legislators eye an early adjournment. Senate and house pass state budget A $12.82 billion state budget deal was struck during the first week of April, and the Oklahoma Senate passed the funding package on Tuesday, April 7 with the house quickly following suit on Thursday, April 10, putting the state budget on the Governor’s desk for a signature. The constitutionally required balanced budget increased funding for education, but kept most other agency funding flat. Oklahoma Farm Bureau joined Oklahoma […]
Statement: OKFB disappointed by court’s rejection of negotiated settlement in Oklahoma poultry case
Oklahoma Farm Bureau President Stacy Simunek released the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma rejected the state of Oklahoma’s negotiated settlement with four poultry companies that would have settled charges against the companies in the decades-old State of Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods, Inc., et al., lawsuit regarding the application of chicken litter in the Illinois River Watershed. “Oklahoma Farm Bureau members are greatly disappointed by the U.S. District Court’s rejection of the negotiated settlement between four poultry companies and the state of Oklahoma in the decades-old poultry lawsuit. “The settlements that were negotiated […]
Young Farmers and Ranchers and collegiate members advocate for agriculture during day at the Capitol
More than 60 Oklahoma Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers and Collegiate Farm Bureau members took to the Oklahoma State Capitol Tuesday, tlearn about the lawmaking process during the group’s YF&R and Collegiate Farm Bureau Day at the Capitol. Members kicked off the event by attending an evening of fellowship Monday, April 6, at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill in Oklahoma City where they heard from OKFB President Stacy Simunek and Senior Director of Public Policy Gage Milliman, who discussed the fundamentals of the legislative process as the group prepared to head to the Capitol the following […]
The halfway point of session means the end for some bills, others move to opposite chamber
Oklahoma lawmakers have hit the halfway point in the 2026 legislative session with the passing of the first major chamber of origin deadline on Thursday, March 26. The mid-session deadline required bills to pass out of their chamber of origin in order to further advance through the legislative process, and this cutoff left several bills that Oklahoma Farm Bureau was tracking effectively dead for the rest of session. One such bill was HB 3178 by Rep. Nick Archer, which would have allowed old farm equipment to depreciate to a value of $0 over time, releasing property owners from paying personal […]
OKFB members share agriculture story during 2026 Washington, D.C., Summit
More than 50 Oklahoma Farm Bureau members descended on Washington, D.C., to share the story of agriculture during OKFB’s 2026 Washington, D.C., Summit March 23-26. Members kicked off the trip on Monday evening with a reception and a spectacular view of the Potomac River where they were joined by several legislative staffers from Oklahoma’s congressional delegation. Tuesday included a morning of briefings from industry experts from American Farm Bureau like RJ Layher, who visited with members about several top policy issues for AFBF, including a new poultry insurance pilot program, the New World Screwworm threat and the potential impacts of […]
