The Port Hope & District Agricultural Society is a not for profit organization incorporated under the Ontario Agricultural and Horticultural Act. The organization is a Canadian Registered Charity and a member of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies, AgScape Ontario and Festival and Events Ontario. Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, regular monthly meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at the Town Park Recreation Centre beginning at 7:30pm. The Annual General Meeting is held the third Wednesday in January of each year. The fiscal year end is the thirtieth of November.

Philip Lawrence, M.P. Northumberland-Peterborough South, David Piccini, M.P.P. Northumberland – Peterborough South Olena Hankivsky, Mayor of the Municipality of Port Hope, Scott Jibb, Mayor of Hamilton Township