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  • Getting startedWhat The Ag Digest is, what you can read without an account, how the two languages work, and where the newsletter and the Magazine fit in.Start here
  • Reading the auction pagesWhat today's price by market means, how a price per kilogram comes out of a box price, what the median and the middle half are, and how to read the seven-day chart.Start here
  • Data sources and creditsWhere every figure on the site comes from, under which terms, how to credit it, and what the “as of” date beside a number means.Start here
  • Plans and billingWhat Free, Premium, Team and the Auction Desk add-on include, how the free trial works, and how to change a plan, cancel, find invoices and manage Team seats.Start here
  • PremiumIncluded with Premium or TeamAuction price alertsBe told the morning after an auction when an item crosses a price you set or moves more than a percentage you choose, at one market. What fires, when, and where to set it.Premium and Team
  • Auction DeskIncluded with Auction DeskCSV exportsWhat the lot file and the daily summary file contain, why they open cleanly in Excel with Korean intact, the bilingual headers, and the limits on size and frequency.Auction Desk
  • Team + Auction DeskIncluded with Team with Auction DeskAPI referenceThe read-only auction data API that comes with Team and Auction Desk: five endpoints over the catalog, markets, daily prices, grades and lots, as JSON or CSV, with keys, limits, errors and examples.Reference
  • Use with AI toolsEvery public guide is also plain Markdown, the whole site is mapped for assistants, and here is what we ask when a model quotes us.Start here

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  • Getting startedWhat The Ag Digest is, what you can read without an account, how the two languages work, and where the newsletter and the Magazine fit in.
  • Reading the auction pagesWhat today's price by market means, how a price per kilogram comes out of a box price, what the median and the middle half are, and how to read the seven-day chart.
  • Data sources and creditsWhere every figure on the site comes from, under which terms, how to credit it, and what the “as of” date beside a number means.
  • Plans and billingWhat Free, Premium, Team and the Auction Desk add-on include, how the free trial works, and how to change a plan, cancel, find invoices and manage Team seats.
  • Your accountProfile and preferred language, the newsletter and email preferences, security, and how to download your data or ask us to delete your account.
  • Use with AI toolsEvery public guide is also plain Markdown, the whole site is mapped for assistants, and here is what we ask when a model quotes us.

Premium and TeamPremiumIncluded with Premium or Team

  • Auction price alertsPremium or TeamBe told the morning after an auction when an item crosses a price you set or moves more than a percentage you choose, at one market. What fires, when, and where to set it.
  • The drill-downPremium or TeamWhat opens on an auction item page with Premium or Team: the 90-day price distribution per market, the gap between markets, declared origin and variety, prices in US dollars, and the news behind a move.
  • Workspace, watchlists and exportsPremium or TeamYour private workspace: watchlists of the series you follow, saved calculator scenarios, series alerts, data exports with their rights check, and sharing with a Team.
  • The Coffee deskPremium or TeamWhat each view of the Coffee desk computes, in plain terms: the market pulse, Korea's imports, futures positioning, the harvest calendar, and the landed-cost and brew calculators.
  • The Beer & Spirits deskPremium or TeamThe brewing and distilling desks: ingredient references, Korea's trade in hops, malt, whisky and soju, the brewery batch planner, and the grain-bill and maturation calculators.

Auction DeskAuction DeskIncluded with Auction Desk

  • The lot explorerAuction DeskEvery auctioned lot of an item at the five markets over the last 90 days, with its variety, declared origin, package and price: the filters, the date window, the sorts and the pages.
  • Price by grade and sizeAuction DeskWhat 특, 상, 중 and 하 fetch at each market, the premium for top grade over time, where the produce came from and who sold it, grade by size, and how the 180-day, one-year and all-history views are built from settlement records.
  • CSV exportsAuction DeskWhat the lot file and the daily summary file contain, why they open cleanly in Excel with Korean intact, the bilingual headers, and the limits on size and frequency.

ReferenceTeam + Auction DeskIncluded with Team with Auction Desk

  • API referenceTeam with Auction DeskThe read-only auction data API that comes with Team and Auction Desk: five endpoints over the catalog, markets, daily prices, grades and lots, as JSON or CSV, with keys, limits, errors and examples.