Livestock

Animal carcass removal costs expected to fall (12/23/10)
County Mayor Eugene Ray told Bedford County Board of Commissioners' rules and legislative committee Tuesday night that the cost of livestock carcass removal through Appertain Corp. would likely be reduced once a new contract is in place. However, the University of Tennessee and Middle Tennessee State University still haven't found a long-term alternative to landfill disposal...

Appertain denies service cutback claim (09/21/10)
Appertain Corp., which is currently handing removal of livestock carcasses in Bedford and other nearby counties, said it has tried to expand its service and denied a claim by County Mayor Eugene Ray last week that the company tried to back out of its contract...

Cattle disposal plan remains for 3 months (09/17/10)
Dead cattle will still be disposed of as usual for the next three months, the county's solid waste authority learned Thursday, although there had been some recent snags with where to put them. County Mayor Eugene Ray told authority members that Appertain Corp. of Pulaski had tried to back out of the agreement they had with the county to dispose of cattle carcasses because they had no place to take the remains...

Livestock collection continues (07/11/10)
Farmers won't have to worry about a two-week gap in the collection of dead livestock, the county's solid waste authority learned Thursday evening. County Mayor Eugene Ray told the authority that everything "will be as usual" for the next six months after Appertain Corp. of Pulaski said they could begin transporting the carcasses to a Rutherford County landfill...

Farmers face dead period for disposal of carcasses (07/01/10)
An on-again, off-again six-month interim solution to the problem of livestock carcass removal is apparently on -- but it will leave a two-week period in early July during which local farmers will have to worry about livestock disposal on their own. Local and state officials met Wednesday at the University of Tennessee Extension offices on Midland Road to brief farmers on the issue. County Mayor Eugene Ray chaired the meeting...

TWHBEA names executive director (04/22/08)
Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association (TWHBEA) announced Sunday that Stan Butt has been named as executive director. Butt has been serving as interim executive director since December. "Stan has done an outstanding job of helping restore financial accountability and fiscal responsibility to our Association," said Mike Inman, TWHBEA vice president for administrative, fiscal and audit matters, who chairs the group's personnel committee. ...

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