Salt Fork Grain Co

Dana Hastings · Washington County, KS · Danae Kruse · client since 2019

225k bu at 84% priced

$964.6K under management

Call before pricingCosts from their booksLast spoke in 52 days2 other findings(785) 555-5922

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.

Corn new crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $3.79 · cash bid $4.38 · 76% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 53% of the cropGuarantee 97k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$3.99	+$0.20	15% 17k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.22	+$0.43	21% 24k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.38	+$0.59	17% 19k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit

Corn old crop · Sep 2026

Break-even $4.02 · cash bid $4.21 · 93% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 76% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.20	+$0.18	15% 17k bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.48	+$0.46	19% 21k bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.70	+$0.68	21% 23k bu	Filled	Dec 9, 2026 in 4 months Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$4.89	+$0.87	21% 23k bu	Filled	Feb 9, 2027 in 6 months 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 $3.89 to count as clearing cost.