"Most people don’t recognize how important the soybean industry has become as part of Kentucky’s agricultural economy,” Commissioner Quarles said.

Most of the 2,000 acres of soybeans that Caleb Ragland, far right, grows on his 213-year-old LaRue County family farm are for seed production.

KDA acquired the bait from a food bank warehouse in Morehead, where six pallets had spent more than a year after a shipping or communication error.