FARM FAMILY OF THE YEAR

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2024 - Montgomery

Jim & Paula Montgomery

We are currently running 50 cows and calves on 250 acres. We downsized the operation in 2020 from 350 cows and calves after moving out of the Industrial Park. We bale our hay, work our cattle and help numerous friends worth their cattle.

2023 - Monk

Randy and Janet were both and raised in Mayes County, Oklahoma.  They met in high school and married in 1976.  Both were involved in 4-H and Ag.  Randy was in FFA throughout high school, is a team roper and won the USTRC in 1992.  Jan was a 4-H leader and their son Nathan and his boys all carried on the tradition of raising and showing their animals at the fair, and still continue to enjoy team roping.

2022 - Thorne

Thorne Ranch was established in Mayes County in 1963, when the Thorne family purchased 1,500 acre ranch three miles northeast of Adair, OK. Primarily purchased for summer grazing for stocker feeder cattle, they kept a full time employee, Pat Spaulding for twenty years. Albert (Abbie) grew up on the family ranch roping and doctoring calves near Canadian Texas and graduated from Texas Tech with a Ag Ed Degree. Abbie was back and forth between Thorne Ranch in Texas and Oklahoma until 1983, when he moved permanently to Oklahoma.

Farm Families of the Past

  • 2022         Albert & Joan Thorne
  • 2021         Herb and Renee
  • 2020         Jerry and Glinda Knott
  • 2019         JD and Joyce Walsh
  • 2018         Carl, Chell & Susan Propp
  • 2017         Larry & Becky Ramsey
  • 2016         Roy & Barbara Ross
  • 2015         David & Kelle McCollough
  • 2014         Wayne and Joyce Shulze
  • 2013         Steve & Laura Koelsch
  • 2012         Th Ewald & Shirley Peper
  • 2011         Charles and Pam Dorsey
  • 2010         Charles H. & Ellen Coblentz
  • 2009          Dennis  & Rita DeLozier
  • 2008          Roger & Renita Moore
  • 2007          E.J., Dale, & Stanley Chupp
  • 2006          Darrell & Barbara Anderson
  • 2005          John & Larue Ramsey
  • 2004          Jerry & Donna Koelsch
  • 2003          Dan & Gearl Dene Cunningham
  • 2002          Edward & Bettye Giles
  • 2001          Bob & Lorene King
  • 2000          Courtney Brothers Farms
  • 1999          George Peper Family
  • 1998          Russell & Betty Hamill
  • 1997          Drake Farms
  • 1996          Curt & Teresa Stutzman
  • 1995          Morgan & Elizabeth Bell
  • 1994         Ralph &Phillis Miller
  • 1993          Stamper Quarter Horse Ranch
  • 1992          Tom & Barbara Giles
  • 1991          John & Carol Hanna
  • 1990          Kenny, Vickie, Jim & Faye Packard
  • 1989          Jonathan & Bessie Scheffel
  • 1988          H.G. “Gib” & Mary Gann
  • 1987          Tony & Trudy Fell
  • 1986          Stan & Barbara Covey
  • 1985          Lowell & Bobbie Wolf
  • 1984          Jim & Ginger Wild (Lori, Matt, & Mike)
  • 1983          Johnny & Katie M. Chupp
  • 1982          Russell & Sheri Jacobson
  • 1981          Frank & Norma Grossman
  • 1980          Albert & Betty Coblentz
  • 1979          Bill & Shirley Koelsch
  • 1978          Pat & Karin Grossman
  • 1977          Bill & Fern Montgomery
  • 1976          Howard & Janet Kleeman
  • 1975          E.J. & Betty Cox

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