Fertilizer and Agrochemicals Editing and Proofreading Services

Two products go in the same tank. One of them precipitates, blocks eleven nozzles, and leaves a strip through the middle of a hundred-acre field that will be visible from the road until harvest. Both labels were followed. Neither label mentioned the other product, the water hardness, the order of addition, or the fact that one of them must be fully dispersed before the other goes anywhere near it.

We edit what fertilizer and agrochemical businesses produce — product label text and application instructions, technical data sheets and compatibility guidance, safety data sheets and handling documentation, agronomic literature and trial summaries, distributor and retailer training material, stewardship and container return material, regulatory dossiers and correspondence, and customer technical support content. Our editors work on instructions that are followed by somebody standing beside a tank.

The application instruction is the piece of writing that determines whether a product performs or damages a crop, and its failure is guidance written for a reader with time. The person following it is outside, in the wind, with a hose running and a forecast closing in. We work through these so the mixing order is given as a numbered sequence with what must be dispersed before the next addition, since order is the difference between a solution and a blocked filter and no label reads as though it matters; so the water conditions that change the outcome are stated with their thresholds — hardness, pH, temperature — because a product that fails in hard water fails silently and gets blamed on the season; so rates are expressed in the units of the sprayer rather than of the laboratory, given that a rate per hectare, a concentration and a rate per hundred litres are three different instructions and mixing them up is routine; so the conditions that prohibit application are stated as observable facts rather than as advice; so the compatibility position is given for the products actually tank-mixed in the region, with the jar test described for anything else; so the interval before rain, before grazing and before harvest is stated in the same place as the rate; and so the consequence of getting it wrong is stated so the instruction is taken seriously. Labels written this way keep the product's reputation intact.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including label drafts, trial data, regulatory correspondence and formulation information. We are editors rather than agronomists, chemists or regulatory advisers, and we offer no view on products, compatibility, safety or compliance. What we can do is make the instruction followable at the tank.