Sierra snow water content measures near normal. Nutria rodent numbers zoom. Farmers and butterflies.

The Department of Water Resources conducted their monthly snow survey last week, and what they found is very good news for farm and city dwellers for 2019. More farm groups are telling Congress: we need workers. We need a fix to the immigrant farm labor issue. Nutrias are up, butterflies are down. The nutria is a large burrowing rodent that can destroy crops and levees. Its numbers have exploded in the Delta area in the last year. And the western monarch butterfly population is down 85%. What can farmers do to turn that around? Plenty, and the government is willing to help pay for your efforts. Those are just a few of the stories on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.