Flying Farmers & Farm and Home Week at OAMC

In 1944, with strong support from President Henry G. Bennett, the Oklahoma Flying Farmers organization was born on the OAMC campus as an association for farmers, both men and women, who owned and operated aircraft as part of their farming operations. The National Flying Farmers Association grew out of the Oklahoma Flying Farmers. The Oklahoma Flying Farmers held its first convention at OAMC in 1945, with more than 2,000 farmers attending. The first National Flying Farmers Association convention was held on the campus the following year. The films in this collection feature newsreel-style footage of these conference as well as the Farm and Home Week events, which were held at OAMC in 1947 and 1949. Find the digital collection at https://library.okstate.edu/search-and-find/collections/digital-collections/flying-farmers-and-home-week-at-oamc View films in this collection at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOqZfaor2CHA7XqVfWi8Lxg/videos