Farm and Feed Stores Editing and Proofreading Services

A bulk feed lorry arrives at a farm and cannot deliver. The gateway is too tight for a rigid, the bin has three tonnes of old feed in the bottom, and nobody is on site with a key to the yard. The driver has three more drops, the farmer is at market, and the load goes back — costing the merchant a delivery and the farmer a week of somebody feeding by hand from bags.

We edit what agricultural merchants and feed stores produce — bulk delivery instructions and site requirement documentation, storage and bin preparation guidance, order confirmation and lead time communications, feed specification and ration information for customers, medicated feed and prescription handling documentation, seasonal ordering and availability information, delivery access surveys and vehicle requirement records, account, credit and payment terms, returns and special order policies, and product and application guidance for farm inputs. Our editors work on the instruction that gets the lorry unloaded.

The bulk delivery instruction is where a merchant either delivers or wastes a lorry, and its failure is a delivery note with a date on it. A farmer who receives a confirmation saying delivery is scheduled for Tuesday has not been told what Tuesday requires of them. We write these so the vehicle and its requirements are stated — the type, its length, its weight and the turning space it needs — since a farm that has only ever taken a rigid does not know an artic cannot get in and will not find out until it is stuck; so the bin preparation is stated as an action with a reason, covering emptying, the risk of blending old feed with new, and what happens if it cannot be blown in; so what must be present is named, whether a person, a key, a hard standing or a route free of parked machinery, because the commonest failed delivery is an empty yard; so the delivery window is given with the honest variability and what the driver will do if nobody is there, given that "we will telephone ahead" needs a number and a person; so the consequence of a failed delivery is stated in money before it happens rather than invoiced afterwards; so anything about the feed itself that affects storage is included, such as moisture, settling, or the shelf life of a medicated ration; and so the alternative is offered where a site genuinely cannot take bulk. Instructions written this way get the load in the bin.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including orders, delivery records and customer information. We are editors rather than nutritionists, agronomists or veterinary advisers, and we offer no view on rations, medicated feed or agricultural practice. What we can do is tell the farm what Tuesday requires.