GrainStrategy

Clearwater Farms

Marie Albrecht · Washington County, KS · Owen Speck · client since 2022

96k bu at 75% priced
$591.5K under management
Call before pricingCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 40 days10 other findings(785) 555-5591
The figures below are computed from the desk's records and are the same figures the drafter is handed. The model writes the prose around them and does no arithmetic at all, because a wrong number in a recap is a misrepresentation to a family rather than a bug. If the drafter is unavailable the facts are still here, and the facts are the part that has to be right.

The position, as the family will read it

Expected production
96k bu
Priced
75%
73k bu · plan wants 72% by now
Revenue locked
$438,685
$19 over cost
Still unpriced
24k bu
Worth $152,829 at today's bids and markets
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Wheat (new crop)12k bu$5.73$5.42+$0.31
$3,681
Wheat (old crop)12k bu$5.03$5.06-$0.03
-$404
Soybeans (new crop)5,200 bu$10.63$10.76-$0.13
-$702
Soybeans (old crop)11k bu$10.54$9.99+$0.55
$6,180
Corn (new crop)17k bu$4.28$4.51-$0.23
-$3,959
Corn (old crop)16k bu$4.21$4.52-$0.31
-$4,777

The note to send

Nothing drafted yet. The drafter is handed the figures above and asked to explain them, and it is told not to calculate, forecast, or tell the family what to do.

The drafter is given computed figures and forbidden from doing arithmetic, deriving anything, or implying a market forecast. Nobody on this desk knows where the board is going, and a recap that hints otherwise is the one document that could make a family's loss the desk's fault.

A recap is not a recommendation to the family. The advisor recommends, the family decides, and the language is written that way on purpose.