GrainStrategy

Bluestem Family Farms

Marie Wendt · Smith County, KS · Bree Sandoval · client since 2024

856k bu at 87% priced
$3.3M under management
Call before pricingCosts are stated, not from their booksLast spoke in 29 days5 other findings(785) 555-9353
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
856k bu
Priced
87%
741k bu · plan wants 80% by now
Revenue locked
$2,841,124
-$248,475 over cost
Still unpriced
116k bu
Worth $444,841 at today's bids and markets
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Corn (new crop)392k bu$3.85$3.78+$0.07
$27,759
Corn (old crop)349k bu$3.82$4.61-$0.79
-$276,234

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.