Heck, what about all the unwanted Canadian geese from Seattle and the Northwest? Ship 'em to this area.
They could probably eat a few pounds of these little fellas a day themselves.
Sure enough. Back on the prairie in the late 1800s, my folks would acquire a huge flock of chickens and let them roam freely during cricket and grasshopper years. The chickens were very well fed and the crickets/grasshoppers were nicely kept under control.
By the end of the season we not only were selling eggs by the carload, we had enough free-range chicken to sell that we could have supplied "The Colonel."