GrainStrategy

Stonebridge Ag

Nadine Eichhorn · Webster County, NE · Wes Tolliver · client since 2016

322k bu at 82% priced · 326 head at 30% sold
$2.1M under management
Self directedCosts from their booksLast spoke in 2 months1 critical3 other findings(785) 555-3506
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
322k bu
Priced
82%
265k bu · plan wants 72% by now
Revenue locked
$1,463,306
-$3,950 over cost
Still unpriced
57k bu
Worth $637,171 at today's bids and markets, plus 229 head
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Soybeans (new crop)37k bu$10.87$10.76+$0.11
$3,935
Corn (new crop)99k bu$4.34$4.30+$0.04
$3,477
Corn (old crop)130k bu$3.95$4.30-$0.35
-$44,942

Livestock, in head and hundredweight

GroupHeadSoldAverage receivedCost of gainMade over costFloor
2026 calf crop
Cow / Calf
32697$242.07$177.21$64.86$218.62

Percent sold on livestock is BY HEAD, and it is never comparable to the grain percentage above. A floor is net of the premium paid, and it floors RMA's published index rather than what the animals bring at the barn.

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.