USDA to cut Food Stamp Program. Fighting farm thefts. Farm bankruptcies.

The Trump Administration is proposing cuts to the Food Stamp Program. And that would also mean the elimination of free school lunches for hundreds of thousands of impoverished school children. And it would mean billions of dollars in losses for grocery stores and California’s farmers, the nation’s main supplier of fresh fruits and vegetables. How to thwart crime on California’s farms? The Colusa County sheriff’s department has a plan, and it involves a smartphone app to make crime reporting quicker and easier. We look at the state of farm bankruptcies in California, and why it isn’t as bad here as it is in other farms areas across the country. Meet your new farm friend, the mud dauber wasp. All that, extended weather and crop reports, on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.