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Jim Cryns For Agri-View
Sep 26, 2024
Sep 26, 2024

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Wisconsin's Agricultural Roads Improvement Project is distributing $150 million around Wisconsin to enhance rural roads, bridges and culverts in rural communities.

Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation

Wisconsin's roads are home to agricultural equipment -- often using roads not originally constructed for the weight of new machinery.

LeeAnne Bulman/For Agri-View

In June 2023, Senate Bill 247 (Act 13) established the Agricultural Roads Improvement Program as part of the 2023-2025 biennium Wisconsin state budget to improve highways functionally classified as local roads, or minor collectors or culverts that provide access to agricultural lands or facilities used to produce agricultural goods, including forest products.

Jason Maloney/For Agri-View

Water rushes in 2023 along Wisconsin Highway 13 south of the Sioux River. A record accumulation of snow melting rapidly caused flooding and damage to roads in far-northern Wisconsin. Many rural roads need repair.

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Jim Cryns For Agri-View

Farmers and farm suppliers throughout Wisconsin face a difficult task, often traveling well out of their way due to poor road conditions and weight restrictions. Some traveling with crops or machinery will brave the potholes and the generally hazardous roads, but still need to make additional trips because their loads can’t exceed limits for the antiquated roads.

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Jim Cryns has for more than 25 years worked as a freelance writer in Wisconsin. In addition to being a staff writer for the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, he was a radio news anchor with both WTMJ and WISN.

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