With the Excellence in Agriculture Awards presented this past weekend, it was a great opportunity to appreciate those who help put food on everyone's table.

Executive director of the Portage & District Chamber of Commerce Cindy McDonald says it was nice to finally get back to the awards after missing last year.

"This is our 40th year celebrating farm families," explains McDonald. "We're so excited to hold this event, and because we missed 2021, we gave out two farm family awards this year which was very exciting."

She adds that she felt like this year's awards marked a return to normal. McDonald goes into detail on why these awards are important for Portage la Prairie.

"It's so great to honour the agriculture community because it's such an important economic driver for our for our area," notes McDonald. " We just couldn't be more excited to have everybody here gathering in person."

Portage Online will be in touch with award winners from the show in the near future to talk about the event.