Customers of Atwood Resources are being given a choice about what to do with their dead stock.
Company President Dave Smith says farmers can either store the bodies on the farm or have his trucks pick them up - at a higher rate.
Smith says insurance money has been covering the costs of shipping that dead stock to an Ottawa facility since fire destroyed the Atwood plant earlier this year.
Construction delays mean that plant, which was supposed to be ready in November, won't be back in operation until February.
According to Smith, it costs his company about 200 thousand dollars a month to ship the dead stock to an Ottawa facility.
He's recommending farmers keep the dead stock on their farms for pick-up once the plant re-opens in February.
Smith says Atwood Resources had proposed collecting the dead stock and storing it in hazardous waste containers on-site until the plant re-opens, but OMAFRA wouldn't agree to that suggestion.
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Dave Smith says the insurance has now run out and the plant isn't expected to be back up and running until February.
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Smith says the insurance that's been paying the extra costs of shipping animals to an Ottawa facility has run out.
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Smith says the insurance money that's been helping pay to transport the dead stock to an Ottawa facility has run out.
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