The Farm-City Pro Rodeo begins Wednesday night in Hermiston, Oregon, with an event-record $488,000 in added money at stake, that’s an $88,000 increase from last year has attracted a deeper pool of athletes for what is shaping up to be one of the most competitive rodeos of the summer.

Athletes to Watch

Mason Stuller has placed at Farm-City in each of the past two years, winning the event in 2024 and finishing eighth last year.

Wacey Schalla will return from a lengthy injury Wednesday and compete in both the bareback and bull riding events. He hasn’t ridden since May while recovering from a broken femur, among other injuries. Last year, he won the Second Round and Average in the Bareback Riding.

Ira Dickinson has placed in the Top 3 in each of the past two saddle bronc riding events at Farm-City. He was third last year with an 88, after finishing second in 2024 with an 89.5.

Tristan Martin and Cody Devers are the only steer wrestlers to place in each of the last two averages at Farm-City. Devers was third last year and sixth in 2024, while Martin finished seventh and fourth, respectively. Martin also won the event in 2022.

Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira have had the most successful recent history of any team roping duo at Farm-City. The pair has won the event twice in the past five years, doing so in 2021 and 2025. They’re also the only team to have multiple round wins in that span, with three.

John Douch is the only tie-down roper since 2021 to have won multiple rounds at Farm-City. He won a round in both 2022 and 2023, finishing second and third in the average, respectively.

Tayla Moeykens won last year’s barrel racing by the largest margin of any winner in the past five years, .15 seconds. She’s also the only barrel racer to finish in the Top 10 at each of the last two Farm-City events, finishing fourth in 2024 and winning last year. LaTricia Duke is the only other barrel racer to place in both of those events, finishing fifth in 2025 and 13th in 2024.

The last two barrel racing champions at Farm-City both finished in the Top 6 the year before winning. Moeykens was fourth in 2024 before winning last year, while Andrea Busby was sixth in 2023 before winning in 2024. If that trend continues, McKenna Coronado, Julie Plourde and Hailey Kinsel are worth keeping an eye on, as they’re the only returning riders who finished in the top six last year.

After shoulder and knee injuries kept Stetson Wright sidelined for a month, the 10x World Champion is back in action. He has already competed at Cache County and Jerome County, but Farm-City will be his biggest and most competitive event since returning.

Wright also has some respectable Farm-City history. He won the all-around title in 2022, thanks in part to a fourth-place finish in bull riding, and in 2021 he was 90 points to finish as the Reserve Champion.

Nine of the top 10 bull riders in the World Standings will compete at Farm-City, with only No. 4 Hayden Welsh missing. It’s an influx of talent Farm-City hasn’t been accustomed to recently in bull riding.

No. 1 Noah Lee and No. 10 Qynn Andersen have been the best of the bunch heading into Farm-City. Lee has been 90 points three times in his last five outs, a feat no one else has come close to. Andersen, while lacking Lee’s high scores, has instead been the most consistent rider of late, covering eight of his last 10 bulls.

Stats to Know

The average round-winning score in bareback riding since 2021 is 88.79 points, although that score would have won only three of the seven rounds in that span. The other four winning scores were all at least 89.5.

That 88.79 would have won three of the last five rounds, however, as no bareback Rider has been 90 at Farm-City since Jess Pope in 2022. A year earlier, in 2021, Clayton Biglow was 92 to win the event.

No bull rider has been 90 at Farm-City in more than seven years, but there’s a good chance that changes this year with nine of the Top 10 Bull Riders in the World Standings competing. The average winning score since 2019 is 87.75 points, with Rawley Johnson’s 89.5 to win last year standing as the highest score in that span.

Of the Bull Riders in the current top 10, only T.J. Gray and Noah Lee have scored 90 or better since August began. Lee has done it three times to Gray’s one.

A score of exactly 90 has won each of the last four Farm-City saddle bronc riding events dating back to 2022. In 2021, Ben Anderson was 90.5 to win the event and set an arena record.

Each of the past five Farm-City Saddle Bronc Champions is competing again this year. Four of them, Brody Wells, Statler Wright, Ryder Wright and Ben Anderson, will ride together during Wednesday night’s Go-Round. Stetson Wright will be the sixth and final rider to have been 90 at Farm-City since 2021, finishing runner-up to Anderson with a 90 in 2021.

Every round-winning time in steer wrestling since 2021 has been well under 4.0 seconds. However, 2025’s winning times of 3.8 and 3.7 were the two slowest in that span.

In the last five years, only two average winners won without winning a Round: Cody Cabral in 2023 and Eric Logan in 2024. The other three, who were also the fastest three Average winners, secured at least one round win on their way to the title. Round wins aren’t everything for bulldoggers at Farm-City, but they’re worth watching.

Teams roping has gotten slightly slower at Farm-City over the last five years, and it’s reflected in the winning Average times, too. An 8.8 won in 2021, followed by an 8.9 in 2022. From 2023-2025, however, two 10.0s and a 9.2 won the Average.

Since 2022, Round 1s winning time in tie-down roping has been slower than Round 2s by an average of 0.35 seconds. In each of the past two years, the Round 2 winner also won the Average.

In Barrel Racing, times of 16.92, 16.97 and 16.96 won from 2021-2023. A 17.10 won in 2024, becoming the slowest winning time of the past five years.

The fastest time in that span, though, came from Moeykens last year. She was 16.81 to win and tied the arena record set by Lindsay Sears in 2006.

If Moeykens’ historic run is removed and the focus is placed on the runner-up, who was 16.96, a clear range of potentially event-winning times emerges: 16.92-16.97.

Last Year’s Winners

All-Around Cowboy: Wacey Schalla

Bareback Riding: Wacey Schalla, 175.5 points on two

Steer Wrestling: Ty Erickson, 7.6 seconds on two

Team Roping: Andrew Ward/Jake Long, 10.0 seconds on two

Saddle Bronc Riding: Brody Wells, 90 points on Calgary Stampede’s Annual News

Tie-Down Roping: Riley Webb, 16.5 seconds on two

Barrel Racing: Tayla Moeykens, 16.81 seconds

Bull Riding: Rawley Johnson, 89.5 points on Corey & Lange Rodeo’s Stand By Me