Crop Farming Editing and Proofreading Services

A neighbour reports damage to a shelterbelt and names the date. The farm applied a herbicide that week, in conditions that were entirely reasonable at the time. What decides how the next six months go is whether somebody wrote down the wind speed and direction at the start of the pass, and whether the record was made that afternoon rather than the following spring.

We edit what crop farms produce — spray and application records, field and agronomy records, farm assurance documentation and audit responses, nutrient and manure management plans, grain sale and contract paperwork, lease and custom work agreements, succession and business planning documents, and the correspondence that goes with a claim, a complaint or an inspection. Our editors work on records made under time pressure that have to stand up later.

The application record is the document that protects a farm, and its failure is a diary entry written to satisfy a scheme rather than to reconstruct a day. A spray record is read by an auditor once and by a lawyer only if something went wrong. We work through these so each application carries the product's full name and registration number, the rate as applied and the total quantity used, since a rate without an area cannot be checked against the container; so the field is identified by the parcel identifier and the area treated is given where part of a field was sprayed, because a whole-field entry that covers a part-field pass is wrong on the face of it; so the weather is recorded at the start and end of the pass — wind speed, direction, temperature — and not as a general description of the day, given that this is the single field an investigation reads first; so the operator and their certification are named with the machine and the nozzle fitted; so buffers, watercourses and neighbouring sensitive areas are recorded as observed on the day rather than as mapped; so the reason for the application and the threshold or observation that triggered it are noted, as an assurance scheme will ask and a memory will not supply it; and so the record is completed the same day. Records written this way are the cheapest insurance on the farm.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including farm records, contracts and material relating to complaints or claims. We are editors rather than agronomists, sprayer operators or lawyers, and we offer no view on products, application decisions or compliance. What we can do is make the record reconstruct the day.