GrainStrategy

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
The figures below are computed from the desk's records and are the same figures the drafter is handed. The model writes the prose around them and does no arithmetic at all, because a wrong number in a recap is a misrepresentation to a family rather than a bug. If the drafter is unavailable the facts are still here, and the facts are the part that has to be right.

The position, as the family will read it

Expected production
722k bu
Priced
81%
583k bu · plan wants 72% by now
Revenue locked
$2,536,924
$167,578 over cost
Still unpriced
139k bu
Worth $600,256 at today's bids and markets
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Milo (new crop)156k bu$4.03$4.12-$0.09
-$14,766
Corn (new crop)215k bu$4.62$3.89+$0.73
$156,738
Corn (old crop)212k bu$4.32$4.20+$0.12
$25,606

The note to send

Nothing drafted yet. The drafter is handed the figures above and asked to explain them, and it is told not to calculate, forecast, or tell the family what to do.

The drafter is given computed figures and forbidden from doing arithmetic, deriving anything, or implying a market forecast. Nobody on this desk knows where the board is going, and a recap that hints otherwise is the one document that could make a family's loss the desk's fault.

A recap is not a recommendation to the family. The advisor recommends, the family decides, and the language is written that way on purpose.