Rolling Plains Family Farms

Neil Gruber · Mitchell County, KS · Katie Rennick · client since 2024

114k bu at 73% priced

$751.4K under management

Self directedCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 20 days8 other findings(785) 555-3905

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 $4.36 · cash bid $4.39 · 68% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 53% of the cropGuarantee 51k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.62	+$0.26	15% 11k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.82	+$0.46	22% 16k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$5.10	+$0.74	16% 12k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit

Soybeans new crop · Nov 2026

Break-even $10.16 · cash bid $10.74 · 71% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 75% of the cropGuarantee 17k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$10.57	+$0.41	15% 3,163 bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$11.14	+$0.98	17% 3,584 bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$11.70	+$1.54	25% 5,271 bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$12.32	+$2.16	18% 3,795 bu	$1.58	Nov 9, 2026 in 3 months Window Feb-May	Working

Soybeans old crop · Aug 2026

Break-even $10.44 · cash bid $10.70 · 96% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 58% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$10.92	+$0.48	15% 2,936 bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$11.53	+$1.09	18% 3,524 bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$12.02	+$1.58	25% 4,894 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 $4.46 to count as clearing cost.