Business ProfileforDarling Ingredients

Darling Ingredients **** with an operation based out of **************, is a rendering company for dead livestock.For the past 3 years, they have required two stops per week for picking up the dead hogs at my hog site. They will make the stop at the hog site even if we dont request them to stop. Furthermore, when they do the stop and if there is not any dead pigs to be picked up, they will still charge up to $75 per stop. Since they are requiring two stops per week and even if they just do a drive-through at the hog site, they are still charging us the fee. They also do not give the producer any choice of what day(s) they will stop.At 2 stops per week, that equals up to 8 times per month, or more if theres an extra week in the month. If they charge $75 per stop, that could add up to $600-$800 per month. These charges are whether we have dead pigs or not. This is a considerable amount of expenses to the livestock producer. This expense is not necessary or accurate since they are charging us even when we dont have any dead pigs.There are a lot of livestock producers in my area that feel this is an unfair business practice that Darling Ingredients *** is doing. We would like your opinion or investigation into this operation and these charges for picking up our dead pigs.I have made contact with Darling Ingredients *** by phone with no results or changes.