The volatility in grain prices, coupled with recent natural disasters that have impacted yield and prices, illustrate the importance of considering financially devastating outcomes and having effective risk management strategies in place to avoid them. Kara Zimmerman, a master’s student in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, recently defended her thesis that studies the impacts of crop insurance and intra-season hedging on long-run net income risk. She also co-authored a new article summarizing her findings, up on our Farm and Ranch Management website, farm.unl.edu.