Oklahoma Farm Bureau

Oklahoma Farm Bureau (OKFB) is a nonprofit, voluntary, non-governmental, and non-partisan agricultural organization serving farmers and ranchers across Oklahoma. It presents itself as an organization devoted to promoting, protecting, and representing the common interests of the state’s agricultural community and is described as Oklahoma’s largest farm organization. Its role is primarily representative and organizational rather than that of a conventional consumer brand or commercial producer. The organization was established in 1942 during a period when agricultural producers were building formal structures for collective representation, cooperative activity, and policy advocacy. Oklahoma Farm Bureau was organized as an independent farm organization and chartered under Oklahoma’s Cooperative Marketing Association Act on February 3, 1942. On March 1 of the same year, it entered into its first cooperative agreement with the American Farm Bureau Federation, creating the relationship through which OKFB functions as the Oklahoma-level partner of the national federation. The affiliation does not make OKFB a government agency; the organization remains an independent state-level body. OKFB’s membership and governance structure is decentralized. All 77 Oklahoma counties have County Farm Bureaus, with each county organization separately organized and chartered under Oklahoma nonprofit law. County Farm Bureaus maintain their own boards of directors, and their bylaws may differ from one county organization to another. This county-based network gives the statewide organization a local presence and provides a structure through which agricultural concerns can be developed and represented at both county and state levels. At the state level, OKFB is governed by a ten-member Board of Directors. The board includes the president, who serves at large, and one director from each of the organization’s nine districts. This arrangement combines statewide leadership with geographic representation. The publicly documented 2019 leadership roster included President Rodd Moesel, Vice President Gary Crawley, Secretary James Fuser, Treasurer Monte Tucker, and district directors Alan Jett, David VonTungeln, Jimmy Wayne Kinder, Keith Kisling, John Grundmann, and Jim Meek. The organization’s principal activities are agricultural representation, member association, policy engagement, and support for the collective interests of Oklahoma’s farmers and ranchers. Available reference material does not identify a separate portfolio of consumer products, a publicly traded parent company, or a conventional commercial product brand. Its significance lies instead in its statewide membership network, county-level structure, and connection to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Current financial figures, official headquarters details, current executives, and a confirmed official website URL are not established by the supplied reference material.

Oklahoma Farm Bureau was organized in 1942 as an independent agricultural organization serving Oklahoma farmers and ranchers. It received its state charter on February 3, 1942, under Oklahoma’s Cooperative Marketing Association Act. The charter established a formal legal framework for an organization intended to coordinate and represent agricultural interests rather than operate as a conventional commercial enterprise. On March 1, 1942, Oklahoma Farm Bureau entered into its first cooperative agreement with the American Farm Bureau Federation. This affiliation positioned OKFB as the Oklahoma-level partner of the national Farm Bureau system while preserving its identity as an independent, nongovernmental, nonpartisan, voluntary organization. The relationship is an important part of OKFB’s institutional history because it links state-level agricultural representation with a broader national federation. The organization developed a county-based structure covering all 77 Oklahoma counties. Each County Farm Bureau is individually organized and chartered under Oklahoma nonprofit law and has its own board of directors. Because the county organizations are separate entities, their governing bylaws can vary. This arrangement allows local agricultural communities to organize around their own concerns while participating in a statewide Farm Bureau network. Statewide governance is assigned to a ten-member Board of Directors. One director represents each of nine districts, while the president serves at large. The structure is designed to combine geographic representation with centralized statewide leadership. A leadership list documented for 2019 named Rodd Moesel as president, Gary Crawley as vice president, James Fuser as secretary, Monte Tucker as treasurer, and nine district leadership positions distributed across the organization’s geographic districts. The available historical material characterizes OKFB principally through its representative function. Its activities center on promoting, protecting, and representing the shared interests of Oklahoma farmers and ranchers. The supplied sources do not provide a detailed chronology of policy campaigns, commercial subsidiaries, financial performance, major product launches, or later leadership transitions. Accordingly, the organization’s documented history is best understood through its 1942 establishment, its early affiliation with the American Farm Bureau Federation, and the continuing county-and-district structure that defines its organizational model.

• 2019

  State board leadership documented

  [1]Oklahoma Farm Bureauen.wikipedia.org

  A ten-member leadership and district-director roster was publicly documented for the organization.

• 1942

  Organization established

  [1]Oklahoma Farm Bureauen.wikipedia.org

  Oklahoma Farm Bureau was organized as an independent farm organization serving Oklahoma agricultural producers.

• 1942

  State charter granted

  [1]Oklahoma Farm Bureauen.wikipedia.org

  The organization was chartered in Oklahoma on February 3 under the state’s Cooperative Marketing Association Act.

• 1942

  Affiliation with the American Farm Bureau Federation

  [1]Oklahoma Farm Bureauen.wikipedia.org

  OKFB signed its first cooperative agreement with the American Farm Bureau Federation on March 1, becoming the national federation’s Oklahoma-level partner.

A statewide, member-based agricultural advocacy and representation organization for Oklahoma farmers and ranchers.

1. 1Oklahoma Farm Bureauen.wikipedia.org