“Successful cow-calf producers are ‘risk experts’,” says Jenny Ifft, an agricultural policy specialist with K-State Research and Extension. “They face multiple sources of risk every day. Forage production can vary dramatically based on when or how much it rains. If the market tanks the month before they sell their herd, a producer’s profit could be wiped out.”
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