Sweetwater Ag
Peg Hastings · Cloud County, KS · Wes Tolliver · client since 2026
125k bu at 72% priced · 257 head at 68% sold
$1.1M under management
Self directedCosts from their booksLast spoke in 4 months1 other findings(785) 555-5123
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.
Wheat new crop · Jul 2027
Break-even $5.50 · cash bid $5.75 · 72% priced against a 72% pace
Ladder covers 57% of the cropGuarantee 106k bu
| Rung | Price | Over cost | Tranche | Away from the bid | Sell by | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $5.78 | +$0.28 | 15% 19k bu | Filled | May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 2 | $6.10 | +$0.60 | 22% 27k bu | Filled | Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 3 | $6.39 | +$0.89 | 20% 25k bu | Filled | Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days 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 $5.60 to count as clearing cost.