Painted Sky Family Farms
Beth Ellison · Mitchell County, KS · Katie Rennick · client since 2023
645k bu at 55% priced
$2.5M under management
Price to the planCosts are estimatesLast spoke in 1 day4 other findings(785) 555-2054
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 $4.50 · cash bid $3.85 · 60% priced against a 80% pace
Ladder covers 58% of the cropGuarantee 297k bu
| Rung | Price | Over cost | Tranche | Away from the bid | Sell by | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $4.69 | +$0.19 | 15% 52k bu | Filled | Jul 25, 2026 3 months ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 2 | $4.93 | +$0.43 | 23% 80k bu | Filled | Sep 25, 2026 30 days ago Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 3 | $5.19 | +$0.69 | 20% 70k bu | Filled | Nov 25, 2026 in 31 days Window Feb-May | Hit |
Corn old crop · Dec 2026
Break-even $3.96 · cash bid $3.85 · 50% priced against a 95% pace
Ladder covers 55% of the crop
| Rung | Price | Over cost | Tranche | Away from the bid | Sell by | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $4.18 | +$0.22 | 15% 44k bu | Filled | Oct 25, 2026 today Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 2 | $4.36 | +$0.40 | 20% 59k bu | Filled | Dec 25, 2026 in 61 days Window Feb-May | Hit |
| 3 | $4.61 | +$0.65 | 20% 59k bu | $0.76 | Feb 25, 2027 in 4 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 $4.60 to count as clearing cost.