Correction Notes

The Paddock Ledger does not operate a submission form, inbox or phone line. What we do keep is a correction habit, and this page explains it so any reader can follow the same steps.

Every article that leans on a published source names that source. If a sentence says a farm planning guide sets out mapping as a step, you can open the cited document and read the step for yourself. Start there. Check whether the article describes the source accurately, and whether the source is being used for something it does not actually say.

If you find a discrepancy, write down four things for your own record: the article title, the sentence in question, the source you checked, and what the source says instead. Add the date you checked. That note is worth keeping whether or not it ever leaves your desk, because it makes your reading traceable in the same way we ask field notes to be traceable.

There are two things we ask you not to do. Do not send us personal, financial, animal health or property information. And do not treat anything here as advice for your own farm. Our examples are fictional illustrations of record keeping structure, not descriptions of real blocks.

Corrections we make are described in the article itself, in plain language, with the date of the change. We would rather show the correction than quietly overwrite the original text.