KSTE Farm Hour July 23: CA Cap and Trade bill has savings for farmers. Thwarting wild pigs.

It was a bipartisan effort at the state capitol to pass the extension of the Cap and Trade bill for reducing greenhouse gases this past week. But the only way a handful of Republicans would come to support one of democrat Jerry Brown’s pet projects was to get relief and certainty for California’s agricultural community. What did the farmers get? We’ll tell you. But another of Governor Brown’s pipe dreams is getting resistance. A powerful group of California farmers are balking at paying for the Delta Tunnels project. We will tell you why. There are several weak links in getting california farmers to adopt internet-based technologies on the farm. We have that report. All that, the latest crop news, and more…on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.