Falls City Farms
Wade Dahlke · Cloud County, KS · Wes Tolliver · client since 2022
189k bu at 72% priced
$781.7K under management
Call before pricingCosts from their booksLast spoke in 24 days(785) 555-7743
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 $4.28 · cash bid $4.13 · 72% priced against a 72% pace
Ladder covers 75% of the cropGuarantee 161k bu
| Rung | Price | Over cost | Tranche | Away from the bid | Sell by | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $4.49 | +$0.21 | 15% 28k bu | Filled | May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 2 | $4.73 | +$0.45 | 23% 44k bu | Filled | Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 3 | $4.99 | +$0.71 | 20% 38k bu | Filled | Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 4 | $5.19 | +$0.91 | 17% 32k bu | $1.06 | Nov 9, 2026 in 3 months Window Feb-May | Working |
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 $4.38 to count as clearing cost.