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Perry County to solicit bids after heavy turkey‑farm truck traffic damages Cottonwood Road
Summary
After public comment from a large turkey producer about repeated semi‑truck damage, Perry County commissioners voted to solicit contractors for hauling, spreading and grading rock to repair and stabilize roads used by farm traffic.
Perry County commissioners voted 3-0 to solicit bids for contractors to deliver, spread and grade rock on county gravel roads after extended public comment about heavy semi‑truck traffic tied to local turkey farms.
The decision follows a detailed presentation from Travis Strickland, live production manager at Farbest Foods, who told commissioners his company operates five farms in Perry County and regularly moves large volumes of semi truck traffic onto rural roads. "We produce roughly 17,000,000 turkeys a year," Strickland said, and described the local activity that he said produces "289 trucks, semi trucks in a year" for a single farm site (about "a truck and a half a day").
Commissioners and highway staff told Strickland and other residents…
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