Wild Rose Farms LLC
Kirby Hastings · Mitchell County, KS · Owen Speck · client since 2016
195k bu at 65% priced
$791.5K under management
Price to the planCosts from their booksLast spoke in 60 days8 other findings(785) 555-7218
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 $3.88 · cash bid $4.05 · 69% priced against a 80% pace
Ladder covers 64% of the cropGuarantee 82k bu
| Rung | Price | Over cost | Tranche | Away from the bid | Sell by | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $4.07 | +$0.19 | 15% 15k bu | Filled | Jul 25, 2026 3 months ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 2 | $4.28 | +$0.40 | 24% 25k bu | Filled | Sep 25, 2026 30 days ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 3 | $4.47 | +$0.59 | 25% 26k bu | Filled | Nov 25, 2026 in 31 days Window Feb-May | Hit |
Corn old crop · Dec 2026
Break-even $3.91 · cash bid $4.05 · 60% priced against a 95% pace
Ladder covers 60% of the crop
| Rung | Price | Over cost | Tranche | Away from the bid | Sell by | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $4.14 | +$0.23 | 15% 14k bu | Filled | Oct 25, 2026 today Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 2 | $4.32 | +$0.41 | 25% 23k bu | Filled | Dec 25, 2026 in 61 days Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 3 | $4.54 | +$0.63 | 20% 19k bu | $0.49 | Feb 25, 2027 in 4 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 $3.98 to count as clearing cost.