GrainStrategy

Prairie Wind Family Farms

Merle Eichhorn · Republic County, KS · Katie Rennick · client since 2020

333k bu at 65% priced · 97 head at 82% sold
$2.5M under management
Price to the planCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 27 days1 critical10 other findings(785) 555-1067
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 $5.27 · cash bid $5.27 · 81% priced against a 80% pace

Ladder covers 57% of the cropGuarantee 90k bu
RungPriceOver costTrancheAway from the bidSell byState
1$5.58+$0.3115%
17k bu
FilledJul 25, 2026
3 months ago
Window Feb-May
Hit
2$5.77+$0.5017%
19k bu
FilledSep 25, 2026
30 days ago
Window Feb-May
Hit
3$6.16+$0.8925%
28k bu
FilledNov 25, 2026
in 31 days
Window Feb-May
Hit

Wheat old crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $5.44 · cash bid $4.89 · 56% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 82% of the crop
RungPriceOver costTrancheAway from the bidSell byState
1$5.73+$0.2915%
15k bu
FilledOct 25, 2026
today
Window Feb-May
Hit
2$5.99+$0.5517%
18k bu
FilledDec 25, 2026
in 61 days
Window Feb-May
Hit
3$6.31+$0.8725%
26k bu
$1.42Feb 25, 2027
in 4 months
Window Feb-May
Working
4$6.63+$1.1925%
26k bu
$1.74Apr 25, 2027
in 6 months
Window Feb-May
Working

Soybeans new crop · Nov 2026

Break-even $9.14 · cash bid $10.42 · 58% priced against a 80% pace

Ladder covers 60% of the cropGuarantee 94k bu
RungPriceOver costTrancheAway from the bidSell byState
1$9.51+$0.3715%
18k bu
FilledJul 25, 2026
3 months ago
Window Feb-May
Hit
2$10.10+$0.9624%
28k bu
FilledSep 25, 2026
30 days ago
Window Feb-May
Hit
3$10.52+$1.3821%
25k bu
$0.10Nov 25, 2026
in 31 days
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 $5.37 to count as clearing cost.