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Start-ups will help deal with animals By Greg Stiles,Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Greg Stiles,Mail Tribune Posted Aug. 24, 2006 at 2:00 AM Updated Dec 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM By Greg Stiles,Mail Tribune Posted Aug. 24, 2006 at 2:00 AM Updated Dec 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM » Social News Local, regional outfits will fill pick-upand rendering needs after Southern Oregon Tallow Co. goes out of business When Southern Oregon Tallow Co. goes out of the rendering and dead animal pick-up business a week from now, a couple of upstart businesses are poised to step in, and existing players will step up their operations. Still, there remains the question of what to do with leftovers from slaughterhouses during the period between weekly pick-ups. "It won't be cheap, but at least there will be dead animal pick-up," says Cameron Callahan at the Butcher Shop Inc. in Eagle Point. "The biggest problem right now is there is nowhere to hold guts until the trucks come." He's hoping his firm and Alpine Meat Co. in Grants Pass can obtain refrigerated trailers as a stopgap measure. "It costs $300 for five barrels at the landfill and that would add $40 per beef to our costs," Callahan said. "That's not going to happen." Instead, he's working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Environmental Quality and Oregon State University representatives to began a composting operation similar to one at a dairy outside of Redmond. "We have 15 acres near Eagle Point and we're going to go through the process to do that here," Callahan said. "We've got to do some special things, including putting a concrete pad and lagoon in, but that's the way we'll have to go." Two new businesses & 8212; Animal Disposal of Southern Oregon and R&B Disposal & 8212; will provide dead animal pick-up. Emi Lusardi, a large-animal technician at Crater Animal Clinic for the past couple of years, said she will begin dead animal disposal on Aug. 30. Lusardi's Animal Disposal of Southern Oregon will charge $175 for taking away large animals and $125 for smaller ones. Lusardi will transport dead animals ranging from horses and cows to sheep, goats, pigs and alpacas to the landfill for burial. Animal Disposal of Southern Oregon can be reached at 326-2627. R&B Disposal, owned by Southern Oregon Tallow veterans Bob Kline and Robert Crawford, will pick up dead animals for $100 plus the county landfill pit burial fees, which begin at $85 for large animals and $55 for for small animals. The company will charge an extra $20 for trips to Josephine County. The start-up will also clean out small grease traps from restaurants. R&B Disposal can be paged at 734-1405 or reached by calling 890-7382 and 840-8866. The job of picking up waste from butcher shops and grocery stores falls to North State Rendering of Chico, Calif., which has signed an agreement with several local firms to dispose of the fat, bone, offal and hides previously handled by Southern Oregon Tallow Co. North State's range is much broader than Southern Oregon Tallow, reaching from San Rafael, Calif., to Coos Bay on the Oregon Coast, Sacramento to Roseburg on the Interstate 5 corridor and from Reno, Nev., to Klamath Falls east of the Cascades. "We're pretty sizable compared to Southern Oregon Tallow, but nowhere near as big as Darling International (which has a Portland branch)," said Rick Moore, a regional salesman and supervisor for North State. While Southern Oregon Tallow was a one-stop shop in many ways, catering to small farmers as well as commercial customers, North State has long serve commercial customers, including Ray's Food Place stores in the region. The 64-year-old company runs 15 trucks and employs 23 at present, but Moore predicted the additional service runs to Southern Oregon will require additional resources. "We'll definitely add one truck for the scrap route to service the grocery stores and butcher shops," he said. "We already have the grease and pumping traps covered; we're big into that." Like Southern Oregon Tallow, North State's recycled byproduct is a poultry food ingredient. Clearwater Co-op in Grants Pass, run by Brian Thompson, collects grease brought in from septic pumpers and then transfers it to a disposal lagoon near Sutherlin. "When the volume gets to a certain point, we will start processing it here," Thompson said. "Right now we're getting calls from up north from people wanting to bring grease down. So I imagine sometime this fall we'll get the permit to process the grease." Clearwater won't add animal or rendering services, he said. "I didn't see any difference in getting involved with that, we're going to continue doing what we've been doing," he said. "The restaurants won't have to worry." Reach reporter at 776-4463 or at By Greg Stiles,Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Greg Stiles,Mail Tribune Posted Aug. 24, 2006 at 2:00 AM Updated Dec 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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