GrainStrategy

Stonebridge Acres

Beth Albrecht · Clay County, KS · Owen Speck · client since 2020

266k bu at 75% priced
$1.6M under management
Price to the planCosts from their booksLast spoke in 30 days1 critical8 other findings(785) 555-4545
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
266k bu
Priced
75%
198k bu · plan wants 80% by now
Revenue locked
$1,119,507
-$151,441 over cost
Still unpriced
68k bu
Worth $441,676 at today's bids and markets
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Wheat (new crop)66k bu$5.25$5.97-$0.72
-$47,222
Wheat (old crop)45k bu$5.05$5.98-$0.93
-$41,551
Milo (new crop)51k bu$3.50$4.28-$0.78
-$40,016
Soybeans (new crop)36k bu$10.13$10.75-$0.62
-$22,652

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.