GrainStrategy

Iron Mound Farms LLC

Peg Stoll · Nuckolls County, NE · Owen Speck · client since 2020

111k bu at 69% priced · 436 head at 66% sold
$1M under management
Call before pricingCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 51 days7 other findings(785) 555-8244
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
111k bu
Priced
69%
77k bu · plan wants 72% by now
Revenue locked
$696,175
$117,042 over cost
Still unpriced
35k bu
Worth $341,817 at today's bids and markets, plus 147 head
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Milo (new crop)45k bu$3.91$4.26-$0.35
-$15,558
Corn (new crop)28k bu$4.50$4.39+$0.11
$3,013
Wheat (new crop)3,700 bu$5.88$5.27+$0.61
$2,244

Livestock, in head and hundredweight

GroupHeadSoldAverage receivedCost of gainMade over costFloor
2026 calf crop
Cow / Calf
436289$241.72$159.24$82.48None

Percent sold on livestock is BY HEAD, and it is never comparable to the grain percentage above. A floor is net of the premium paid, and it floors RMA's published index rather than what the animals bring at the barn.

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.