Elm Grove Grain Co

Beth Maddox · Webster County, NE · Owen Speck · client since 2021

136k bu at 79% priced

$1.1M under management

Price to the planCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 31 days6 other findings(785) 555-9322

Position Plan Working Orders Sales Break-evens Livestock Recap

Every rung on every ladder clears this family's cost of production plus the desk's $0.10 cushion, and nothing has passed its sell-by date. The plan is doing its job.

Soybeans new crop · Nov 2026

Break-even $9.48 · cash bid $10.67 · 68% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 63% of the cropGuarantee 25k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$9.96	+$0.48	15% 5,325 bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$10.51	+$1.03	17% 6,035 bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$11.07	+$1.59	16% 5,680 bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$11.56	+$2.08	15% 5,325 bu	Filled	Nov 9, 2026 in 3 months Window Feb-May	Hit

Soybeans old crop · Aug 2026

Break-even $11.02 · cash bid $10.63 · 94% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 74% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$11.61	+$0.59	15% 5,265 bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$12.14	+$1.12	20% 7,020 bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$12.83	+$1.81	15% 5,265 bu	Filled	Dec 9, 2026 in 4 months Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$13.44	+$2.42	24% 8,424 bu	Filled	Feb 9, 2027 in 6 months Window Feb-May	Hit

Wheat new crop · Jul 2027

Break-even $5.85 · cash bid $5.69 · 76% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 47% of the cropGuarantee 56k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$6.17	+$0.32	15% 9,873 bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$6.43	+$0.58	15% 9,873 bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$6.75	+$0.90	17% 11k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit

Rungs are sorted by price rather than by the order they were entered, because a scale-up ladder only reads as a ladder in price order. Distance is measured from the cash bid, which is the board plus the local basis, not from the board alone.

A rung that filled before its date is done rather than overdue. The desk's cushion over break-even is $0.10, because a break-even is itself an estimate and pricing exactly at one is pricing at the midpoint of an error bar. On this crop that means a rung has to clear $9.58 to count as clearing cost.