GrainStrategy

Flint Ridge Acres

Cole Larsen · Webster County, NE · Owen Speck · client since 2016

476k bu at 41% priced
$2M under management
Call before pricingCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 37 days2 critical4 other findings(785) 555-8321
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
476k bu
Priced
41%
197k bu · plan wants 72% by now
Revenue locked
$859,370
$22,550 over cost
Still unpriced
278k bu
Worth $1,092,732 at today's bids and markets
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Milo (new crop)44k bu$3.98$3.91+$0.07
$3,247
Milo (old crop)99k bu$3.70$4.02-$0.32
-$31,255
Wheat (new crop)55k bu$5.83$4.91+$0.92
$50,558

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.