"One of the highlights during my time as your commissioner of agriculture came last year in the middle of a pandemic," Dr. Ryan Quarles wrote in an editorial. "I was filled with pride when I learned Kentucky farmers voluntarily donated the highest-ever total, $731,627.67, in the history of the Ag Tag Program."
More than 900 large poultry farms are in Kentucky, where over 289 million broilers are raised and 1.3 billion eggs are laid by more than 5 million hens.
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