OAAS Membership Fees for 2026

Agricultural Society Membership Fees 

Thank you for your continued support and participation in the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies’ activities. This is your Annual Membership renewal notice for 2026, due December 1st, 2025. 

Link for the invoice form, click here. 


Some of the many benefits of your OAAS membership include:

  •  The OAAS Annual Convention, held in Richmond Hill in February, offers our members opportunities for networking, education, and entertainment.
  • OAAS 175th CCEA Scholarship
  • Youth program – a program to assist our agricultural societies in encouraging additional youth participation in their organizations.
  • ‘Outstanding Youth Recognition Award’ – to recognize youth volunteers who contribute time and energy or resources to an Agricultural Society.
  • “Meritorious Service Award”, “Years of Service Award”, and “Accomplishment Award” to enable societies to recognize their volunteers.
  • OAAS Youth of the Month – launched this award in 2024 to recognize 3 young people that are involved in their local agricultural society.
  • Advocating with OMAFA to maintain, improve and add new provincial programs and funding, as well as increase their awareness of the OAAS and our member agricultural societies
  • Marketing for our agricultural societies and their fairs and activities through the OAAS website (www.ontariofairs.com) and creation and distribution of the annual OAAS Directory and the OAAS Agricultural Fairs and Exhibitions brochures.
  • OAAS’s Building Community Leaders Program provides leadership and governance training.
  • OAAS collaborated with OMAFA on Ag Careers funding to promote the Agri-food Careers initiative, making it eligible for funding of $500.00 per day for each day of the fair and more.
  • In collaboration with our provincial counterparts, we participate in discussions with government officials and other organizations to ensure that the best interests of our agricultural societies are supported and protected
  • We are looking forward to working with you over the coming year!

        
We please ask that you pay by cheque, e-transfer, or credit card.

1) To pay by cheque
If you are sending a cheque, please print and include a copy of the form.
Please make a cheque payable to the “OAAS” and send it to the following address:
OAAS, 1911 Foxboro Stirling Rd. RR # 4 Stirling, ON K0K 3E0
2) To pay by credit card
Email a copy of the form to oaas@oaasfairs.com. IMPORTANT – include the credit card number and exp date on the form OR call the OAAS at 613-395-2465 with the credit card number information
3) To pay by e-transfer
Send an e-transfer to oaas@oaasfairs.com. Email a copy of the form to oaas@oaasfairs.com. 

NOTE:
“Agricultural Society Membership” Fees are based on Fair gate receipts. If your Agricultural Society has a “Pay One Price” admission for one or more days of your Fair, please determine your gate receipts by using the same Admission Fee that you have or would have charged regularly multiplied by gate attendance.

For example
The normal ticket price is $10 and Concert night (admittance and concert) is $25. Attendance is 2,000 people – gate receipts for Concert night would be $10 multiplied by 2,000 people = $20,000. 
Same idea for a “Pay One Price” that includes all Midway rides. If regular admission is $10 and “Pay One Price” is $30 then $10 admission is multiplied by gate attendance to determine gate receipts.

If you use an online ticket sales service,  if the price of the online ticket to your fair includes a service fee e.g. Entrance price is $10 – online ticket is $11 ($10 plus $1 service fee), then you would deduct the service fees from your gate receipts total.

Thank you to the Agricultural Societies that have paid their membership fee already.