PERSPECTIVE OKLAHOMA FARM BUREAU
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November 15, 2013
OKFB sponsors Oklahoma high school rodeo athletes Hunter Washburn, Oklahoma High School Rodeo Association student vice president, and Tyler Lang (center) present OKFB Executive Director Monica Wilke with a photo of the OKHSRA team as a thankyou for OKFB’s sponsorship of Oklahoma’s high school rodeo athletes. Washburn is a senior from Shawnee who competes in steer wrestling and team roping. Lang is also a senior from Shawnee, and he competes in team roping and cutting. OKFB is proud to support our high school rodeo in Oklahoma!
OSU hosts annual Rural Economic Outlook Conference Agribusiness leaders from across the state gained insight into the latest industry trends during the 2013 Rural Economic Outlook Conference, Nov. 1, in Stillwater. The conference highlighted a variety of topics relevant to decision makers in business and government agencies across Oklahoma and was specifically aimed at agricultural lenders, government officials, agribusiness leaders and producers. “This is an opportunity for leaders in this field to hear and discuss key considerations they should be thinking about for the coming year,” said Damona Doye, acting agricultural economics department head at OSU. This year’s conference keynote speaker was Joel Kotkin, author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. “Joel’s review of and research into demographics provides key insights into prospects for economic growth,” Doye said. “He slices and dices data in different ways to address potential shifts in where people will live and work, as well as what they aspire to
do, and what all that means for agricultural and the rural economy.” The event featured a special focus on water issues affecting agriculture and rural Oklahoma, as well as a panel of OSU experts who offered their current OKFB State Director Tom Buchanan serves on a water issues perspectives panel during the 2013 Rural Economic Outlook Conference in on Oklahoma Stillwater, Nov. 1. Buchanan primarily discussed the ongoing law and the drought in southwest Oklahoma. livestock and ics professor emeritus at OSU and a confergrain markets. ence panelist. “Hopefully it will be higher, “We’re looking at hard red winter wheat but if it is, it means we didn’t have as high of averaging $6.50 or $7 in the 2014-15 marketing year,” said Kim Anderson, ag econom- production as we’re expecting right now.”