Charles Sloan, of Vian, was recognized as the Distinguished Service to Oklahoma Farm Bureau Award winner at the OKFB 72nd Annual Meeting, Nov. 15, in Norman.
The Distinguished Service Award honors OKFB members who have made outstanding contributions to agriculture and the Farm Bureau organization. Sloan has been serving agriculture for nearly four decades and recently retired as the OKFB state director from District 6, a position he held for 16 years. Sloan has also served as president of Sequoyah County Farm Bureau for 25 years.
Sloan and his wife Mary are contract farmers in the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, where they raise corn, soybeans, wheat and Japanese millet. Sloan was a charter member of the Oklahoma Soybean Association and later served as a national director on the American Soybean Board.
