The following is reprinted from ASI. For the first time some risk management tools are available to sheep producers. Now if predation losses were covered . . .

U.S. Sheep Industry Offers Own Insurance to Producers

Whether it's thru futures or crop insurance, risk management is a very important tool that helps farmers and ranchers guard against natural disasters, low prices and predators, which have the potential to wreck financial havoc on an operation. And for the longest time, the U.S. sheep industry was excluded from risk management tools like these; that is until now.

The Northern Ag Network's Russell Nemetz shares more of the details during the following interview available on ASI's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/sheepusa1.