Pawnee Ridge Family Farms

Elaine Carver · Nuckolls County, NE · Owen Speck · client since 2022

722k bu at 81% priced

$3.1M under management

Call before pricingCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 23 days3 other findings(785) 555-9110

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.

Milo new crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $4.12 · cash bid $4.04 · 75% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 57% of the cropGuarantee 167k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.29	+$0.17	15% 31k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.59	+$0.47	25% 52k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.76	+$0.64	17% 36k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit

Corn new crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $3.89 · cash bid $4.50 · 75% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 75% of the cropGuarantee 245k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.06	+$0.17	15% 43k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.30	+$0.41	17% 49k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.52	+$0.63	18% 52k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$4.74	+$0.85	25% 72k bu	$0.24	Nov 9, 2026 in 3 months Window Feb-May	Working

Corn old crop · Sep 2026

Break-even $4.20 · cash bid $4.33 · 94% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 51% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.43	+$0.23	15% 34k bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.67	+$0.47	16% 36k bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.86	+$0.66	20% 45k 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 $4.22 to count as clearing cost.