Painted Sky Ag

Rhonda Boone · Jewell County, KS · Danae Kruse · client since 2020

803k bu at 69% priced

$3.4M under management

Price to the planCosts from their booksLast spoke in 5 months1 other findings(785) 555-6733

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.

Corn new crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $4.53 · cash bid $4.39 · 49% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 54% of the cropGuarantee 285k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.79	+$0.26	15% 50k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.97	+$0.44	21% 70k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$5.21	+$0.68	18% 60k bu	$0.82	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Due soon

Corn old crop · Sep 2026

Break-even $4.28 · cash bid $4.22 · 97% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 75% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.51	+$0.23	15% 37k bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.75	+$0.47	24% 59k bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.92	+$0.64	15% 37k bu	Filled	Dec 9, 2026 in 4 months Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$5.22	+$0.94	21% 52k bu	Filled	Feb 9, 2027 in 6 months Window Feb-May	Hit

Milo new crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $3.49 · cash bid $3.83 · 69% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 66% of the cropGuarantee 188k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$3.68	+$0.19	15% 33k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$3.86	+$0.37	17% 38k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.06	+$0.57	16% 35k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$4.21	+$0.72	18% 40k bu	Filled	Nov 9, 2026 in 3 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 $4.63 to count as clearing cost.