GrainStrategy

Pawnee Ridge Farms

Cole Larsen · Jewell County, KS · Katie Rennick · client since 2019

680k bu at 67% priced
$4.7M under management
Price to the planCosts from their booksLast spoke in 54 days1 critical4 other findings(785) 555-7036
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
680k bu
Priced
67%
456k bu · plan wants 72% by now
Revenue locked
$3,163,691
$96,095 over cost
Still unpriced
224k bu
Worth $1,548,056 at today's bids and markets
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Wheat (new crop)76k bu$5.81$5.14+$0.67
$51,359
Wheat (old crop)252k bu$5.32$5.60-$0.28
-$71,718
Soybeans (new crop)127k bu$10.82$9.91+$0.91
$116,454

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.