North Fork Land & Cattle

Beth Hastings · Jewell County, KS · Danae Kruse · client since 2026

282k bu at 60% priced

$3M under management

Price to the planCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 5 months7 other findings(785) 555-9075

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 $10.89 · cash bid $10.66 · 68% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 53% of the cropGuarantee 106k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$11.49	+$0.60	15% 23k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$11.97	+$1.08	20% 30k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$12.71	+$1.82	18% 27k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit

Soybeans old crop · Aug 2026

Break-even $9.59 · cash bid $10.62 · 51% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 63% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$10.02	+$0.43	15% 20k bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$10.68	+$1.09	15% 20k bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$11.08	+$1.49	17% 22k bu	Filled	Dec 9, 2026 in 4 months Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$11.57	+$1.98	16% 21k bu	$0.95	Feb 9, 2027 in 6 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 $10.99 to count as clearing cost.