The ANR agent was contacted by the Boyle county soil conservation board that the company that was contracted to pick up deceased farm animals in the county was going out of business on January 31st. The soil conservation board had been paying the $50,000 a year contract for the last three years. The company had picked up an average of 1500 deceased animals per year over the last three years.It was a no cost program for farmers that was run very well by the company.  The ANR agent contacted the specialist that had done research on animal composting and invited him to a meeting involving the soil conservation board and the county judge and two magistrates. It was decided to look further in to the composting aspect of deceased animals in the county. The ANR agent set up a tour of the U.K. site on the Woodford farm and the Franklin county composting site.

Four members of the soil conservation board and the ANR agent went to the sites and asked several questions and brought back information for other board members and the fiscal court. The ANR agent attended a fiscal court meeting and made a short presentation on animal composting and answered questions concerning the composting process. The ANR agent set up a tour of the Franklin county site for the Boyle county fiscal court. The county judge and four magistrates attended, the U.K.specialist attended and answered all their questions. The soil conservation district bought a truck from the company going out of business to be used by the county to pick up deceased animals on the farm. An agreement was made between the soil conservation district and the fiscal court to hire a driver for the truck and for the truck to be given to the county for that use. Two sites were chosen for a composting site but that created an outcry from the public and at this time the deceased animals are going to a landfill in a neighboring county. This probably won't be financially sustainable for the entire year but it has solved the problem for the immediate time.