The pandemic forced the High River Ag Society to make some big changes, but they worked out well in the end.

Outgoing President Tanya Froh says moving the rodeo and chuckwagon races was a difficult decision.

"There had been a couple of us that thought that splitting the rodeo and wagons was the way to go but it's a tough thing to do," she says. "In 2020 everything got cancelled and then when we came back in 2021 it just wasn't possible to put them together like we had previously, the dates just weren't going to work, so it was an opportunity to separate them, and I think that decision has paid off in spades."

She says making both shows profitable while standing apart from one another was a big part of the financial turnaround.

Froh says there were definitely some financial struggles over the last four years, but the board stuck together.

A vice-president for the last three years, Carl McGovern takes over the president's role.