RECENT NEWS
Christmas Tree Farm Wins Business Model Competition Award
A Christmas tree farm and agritourism destination has won the Cherokee Strip Business Model Competition. Through the first-place win on Thursday, Red Bird Farm, owned by Kent and Becky Evatt, received $10,000 and one year of services through Autry Technology Center....
The Energy Sector is Hiring in Enid
The energy sector is growing in Enid and companies are hiring. Koch AG & Energy Solutions has been expanding and they have openings for a plant operator and have been hiring in their engineering department as well. Here is one of their recent job postings. They...
Raise Your Family in the Hub of NW Oklahoma
Choosing to leave the big city for a slower pace of life does not mean needing to leave entertainment, shopping, fantastic restaurants and an active lifestyle behind. If your family moves to Enid, Oklahoma, you can have all these benefits while living in a safe,...

Enid places 11th as Best Small City to Start Business
Enid has ranked 11th among the top small cities to start a business, according to one study. More than 1,200 small cities — with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 — were compared in the study performed by WalletHub, a personal-finance website. The cities were...
Enid Agricultural Center at the Forefront of Innovation and Research
Enid, Oklahoma is home to the Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Product Center, where new value-added enterprises are born. Their research laboratories house the latest technology and equipment necessary to test new processes, compounds, and ideas. With a...

Officials Work Together Towards Growth of Retail Marketing
Enid’s retail market has grown over the past seven years, and officials continue to work on attracting businesses and restaurants. “I think the important thing to understand with the retail market in Enid is that over the last seven years, we’ve gone from around $650...

Johnston Seed Company Celebrates 125 years in Business
In an era when large corporate firms dominate the seed business, Johnston Seed Co. — the oldest and largest independently owned seed supplier in Oklahoma — takes pride in being family run, service oriented and community minded. On March 9, the company celebrated 125...

Stitching Together a Business
For nearly a decade, the Strate Center business incubator at Autry Technology Center has been helping fledgling businesses make a go at it in Northwest Oklahoma. “We’ve had 27 businesses in the nine years and an 81 percent success rate,” said Brian Gaddy, director of...
Cancer Center Grand Opening Announced
INTEGRIS Bass Baptist Health Center Schedules Cancer Center Grand Opening Enid, Okla. (Feb. 16, 2018) After two years of anticipation, INTEGRIS Bass is excited to debut its premier cancer center in Enid. The new facility is set to open on March 8, and will be the...

Thunder Ranch, Red Dirt Wind Farms Up and Running
A massive wind farm in the corner of Garfield County began commercial operations earlier this month.
Thunder Ranch, a 298 megawatt wind farm located in Garfield, Noble and Kay counties, covers approximately 64 square miles and includes 120 wind turbines. Of the 120, 111 are 2.5 MW turbines and the other nine are 2.3 MW. The farm stretches about 22 miles east to west and eight miles north to south, said assistant wind site supervisor Austin Jones.
Red Dirt wind farm, a 300 MW capacity facility in Kingfisher and Logan counties, also commenced operations earlier this month.