Thank you for listening in.

This article is from the July issue of County Progress.

As president of the National Association of Counties and Wise County Judge, J.D. Clark is advocating for federal funding for local roads.

Clark said, as Congress debates a new surface transportation bill, it is time to set funding formulas that reflect needs on the ground.

Picture a grain elevator in rural Missouri on a harvest morning, a line of loaded semi-snakes back a quarter mile.

Each loaded truck then travels county roads to reach the rail silo, the barge, and the world market.

The farmer's margin, already thin, depends on that road holding under 80,000 pounds of corn.