Cow-Calf operators still have time to purchase their calf insurance program through the Western Livestock Price Insurance Program.

Cattlemen have been seeing the benefits of reducing some of the price risks of raising cattle.

Jodie Griffin is the Provincial Co-coordinator for the Western Livestock Price Insurance Program.

She says Ranchers have had some trying times with a long cold winter followed by a tough Spring during the calving season.

"The price insurance program is here to help you with one more part of the risk that it takes to operate in your business," she said. "We can't manage the weather, and we cant manage the market, so here's something that you can do to mitigate yourself against potential unforeseen circumstances that could lay ahead as we head into the fall of 2018."

The calf program is designed to protect producers from three areas of risk price risk, currency risk and basis risk.

Under the calf, program producers purchase the coverage with a floor price on the market, at a specific period when they think they may have marketing risk.

"You do that nowhere in the spring to protect you for when you're going to market your cattle in the fall," Griffin said. " Once that's done you can kind of go on about the rest of your year of doing your normal ranching business, getting the calves and cows out on grass, and continue on knowing that when you come into the market in the fall you do have a floor price guaranteed to you, that the market can be no lower than."

Calf price insurance is available until the end of May and can be purchased every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.