Farmers in counties along the California-Oregon border have reported millions of dollars of losses from a renewed torrent of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets feeding on rangeland and irrigated crops this season. “The problem is getting worse,” said Marc Staunton, who farms in Tulelake. “As the landscape dries up, they are just continuing to spread. If you thought last year was disgusting, this year, it was unreal. “It was a plague-like amount and totally destroyed crops,” he added. Siskiyou County Agricultural Commissioner James Smith filed a request last week with the California Office of Emergency Services seeking a disaster declaration from the secretary of the state Department of Food and Agriculture. The preliminary damage to farmers in the county is estimated at $8.6 million in reported crop losses of pasture, rangeland, alfalfa and small grain crops.