The country’s largest farm and livestock show, Agribition, has come to an end as thousands of animals were herded back into their trailers and sent home.
The Perlinger family arrived from Outlook, Sask. with eight head of cattle, and on Sunday, they left with five.
“We had a good year, good placings, some not so good placings but again, we were up against some really good cattle out there,” Hi-Cliff Herdsman Brenda Perlinger said.
“It’s been a long week. We’re up at the barns four or five in the morning and we’re not leaving here until about eight, eight-thirty at night so it’s long days,” she said.
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Agribition CEO Chris Lane said as soon as everyone leaves, everything gets taken down and put away.
“All the panels, the livestock equipment we have, we put it all into storage,” Lane said.
For almost a week, Evraz Place was like a second home for thousands of people. Lane said with the clean-up effort now underway comes a variety of mixed emotions.
“It’s an odd feeling… it’s like all your company leaves after Christmas — it’s busy and it’s chaotic and it’s stressful,” Lane said.
“It’s also a bit of an empty feeling when people start moving out.”
At the Brandt Centre, clean-up crews wasted no time to get the hockey rink back to its original state, scooping out dirt and hauling it away immediately after Saturday’s final event.
“Brandt Centre is in the process of being turned back into the Pats home. The hockey rink is being put back together,” he said.
“It takes us several weeks to set this all up, and it only takes a few days to tear it down, so it’s kind of around the clock work here.”
Next year’s Agribition will run from Nov. 20 to Nov. 25, 2017.