Stock agents and livestock carriers express sadness, calling the decision inevitable.
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00:00So Tim, today, how did the sale go? Last sale at Camperdown, how did it all go?
00:04Yeah, sad day for the Camperdown community, 350 cattle.
00:08The market was fully firm on last week.
00:11Probably numbers might have been a few shorter down there,
00:14but overall it was a solid market.
00:16Yeah, just sad that it's the final day.
00:19Where will people go now, do you think?
00:21They'll be adrift off to Coal Lake, Mort Lake.
00:24So hopefully both those centres will get some cattle out of it.
00:29Hopefully Coal Lake will pick up a few as well, it'll be good.
00:32What does the closure of Camperdown mean for you, Malcolm?
00:35Probably an end of an era.
00:37This is where a few of us actually first started selling,
00:41which goes back nearly 40 years.
00:43Yeah, it is a bit emotional for a few people, that's for sure.
00:46A fair few of us started here.
00:47We all started probably selling here even back in the bobbycalf days
00:51and worked our way up from there on.
00:53All under probably the likes of Clary Smith,
00:55so it's all half the people that sold here.
00:57What will you do now when Camperdown's gone?
01:00Will you go to another centre?
01:01I do sell now at Mort Lake,
01:03so I'll continue going out to Mort Lake every week.
01:06But otherwise, on Tuesdays, after so many years,
01:09it's just not going to be there.