GrainStrategy

Goose Creek Ag

Cole Foss · Smith County, KS · Katie Rennick · client since 2019

121k bu at 67% priced
$559.2K under management
Call before pricingCosts from their booksLast spoke in 19 days1 critical2 other findings(785) 555-9618
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
121k bu
Priced
67%
81k bu · plan wants 72% by now
Revenue locked
$364,908
-$6,274 over cost
Still unpriced
40k bu
Worth $194,310 at today's bids and markets
CropPricedAverage receivedCost of productionMade over cost
Milo (new crop)25k bu$3.92$4.26-$0.34
-$8,599
Milo (old crop)19k bu$3.59$3.78-$0.19
-$3,567
Wheat (new crop)7,100 bu$5.90$4.82+$1.08
$7,636
Wheat (old crop)30k bu$5.25$5.31-$0.06
-$1,744

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.