Big Bluff Ranch

Rhonda Hemmelgarn · Clay County, KS · Bree Sandoval · client since 2019

248k bu at 74% priced · 2,370 head at 68% sold

$7.5M under management

Call before pricingCosts from their booksLast spoke in 24 days4 other findings(785) 555-8382

Position Plan Working Orders Sales Break-evens Livestock Recap

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.

Soybeans new crop · Nov 2026

Break-even $10.21 · cash bid $10.84 · 73% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 82% of the cropGuarantee 44k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$10.77	+$0.56	15% 8,777 bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$11.34	+$1.13	22% 13k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$11.88	+$1.67	20% 12k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$12.32	+$2.11	25% 15k bu	$1.48	Nov 9, 2026 in 3 months Window Feb-May	Working

Milo new crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $4.16 · cash bid $3.85 · 74% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 58% of the cropGuarantee 83k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.38	+$0.22	15% 16k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.58	+$0.42	25% 26k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.86	+$0.70	18% 19k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit

Milo old crop · Sep 2026

Break-even $3.58 · cash bid $3.71 · 76% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 55% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$3.74	+$0.16	15% 13k bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$3.94	+$0.36	23% 20k bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.14	+$0.56	17% 15k bu	Filled	Dec 9, 2026 in 4 months Window Feb-May	Hit

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 $10.31 to count as clearing cost.