Importance of Highways to U.S. Agriculture

Clint Thompson January 1, 2021 General

agricultural trucking — Classic Peterbilt Semi-Truck pulling a Cattle Trailer along a rural Oregon Highway.
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A recent study looks at the value of the nation’s highway system in the agriculture sector, including specific corridors with major volumes of Ag-related traffic. Rod Bain reports.

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