Blue Stem Hollow Family Farms

Hank Grosshans · Webster County, NE · Wes Tolliver · client since 2024

1.2M bu at 72% priced

$5.2M under management

Price to the planCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 47 days5 other findings(785) 555-6595

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.

Corn new crop · Dec 2026

Break-even $3.96 · cash bid $4.20 · 48% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 84% of the cropGuarantee 350k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.19	+$0.23	15% 66k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.38	+$0.42	23% 101k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$4.61	+$0.65	23% 101k bu	$0.41	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Due soon
4	$4.82	+$0.86	23% 101k bu	$0.62	Nov 9, 2026 in 3 months Window Feb-May	Working

Corn old crop · Sep 2026

Break-even $4.38 · cash bid $4.03 · 94% priced against a 95% pace

Ladder covers 53% of the crop

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$4.64	+$0.26	15% 65k bu	Filled	Aug 9, 2026 15 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$4.88	+$0.50	21% 92k bu	Filled	Oct 9, 2026 in 46 days Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$5.12	+$0.74	17% 74k bu	Filled	Dec 9, 2026 in 4 months Window Feb-May	Hit

Wheat new crop · Jul 2027

Break-even $4.99 · cash bid $5.69 · 73% priced against a 72% pace

Ladder covers 81% of the cropGuarantee 212k bu

Rung	Price	Over cost	Tranche	Away from the bid	Sell by	State
1	$5.26	+$0.27	15% 42k bu	Filled	May 9, 2026 4 months ago Window Feb-May	Hit
2	$5.52	+$0.53	21% 59k bu	Filled	Jul 9, 2026 46 days ago Window Feb-May	Hit
3	$5.81	+$0.82	20% 57k bu	Filled	Sep 9, 2026 in 16 days Window Feb-May	Hit
4	$6.03	+$1.04	25% 71k bu	$0.34	Nov 9, 2026 in 3 months Window Feb-May	Working

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 $4.06 to count as clearing cost.