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Korea's agriculture desk

Korea's wholesale auction prices, lot by lot, with the news and the desks around them

Today's auction prices by market, the news and the weather desk are free. Premium opens the price history since September 2026, nightly auction price alerts, the Coffee and Beer & Spirits desks and the workspace that keeps your research. The Auction Desk add-on opens every lot, price by grade and CSV.

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  • Every lot at five wholesale markets, priced per kg
  • Korean and English throughout
  • 7-day free trial, no card

What's actually in the product

The auction archive first, then desk by desk, with free, Premium and the add-on marked honestly. A lot of this costs nothing, and we'd rather you know that up front.

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Wholesale auction prices

Every lot sold at Seoul Garak, Busan Eomgung, Daegu Bukbu, Gwangju Gakhwa and Daejeon Ojeong, priced per kilogram and summarized every trading day. Today's prices are free; Premium opens the history and alerts; the Auction Desk add-on opens the lots.

For growers and co-ops deciding when to ship and in what pack, and for sourcing and trade analysts who have to show where a price came from.

  • Today's median price per kilogram by market, the range, the best-paying market and the last seven trading days, free for every item
  • Price distribution by market since September 2026, the gap between markets, declared origin and variety mix, and prices in US dollars, with Premium
  • Nightly price alerts for an item at a market, in the app and by email, with Premium
  • Monthly settlement price history at Seoul Garak, with Premium
  • Every lot, price by grade and size, and CSV exports, with the Auction Desk add-on

Ag Digest's calculation from aT's public wholesale market data. Origin as declared by the shipper; prices per kilogram converted from package prices.

Today's prices by market, free
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Weather

Five KMA-sourced views of Korean growing conditions. Free, and staying that way.

For growers and farm operators timing fieldwork against the season, the soil, and the next warning.

  • National synoptic charts covering Korea and the US Corn Belt
  • Live 기상특보 warnings, re-read on every load rather than cached
  • All 24 solar terms (절기) mapped to seven crop-risk profiles, with multi-year station series
  • Soil temperature and moisture at four depths — observed, long-run mean, and KIM forecast kept as separate layers
  • Daily observations against selectable KMA normals, defaulting to 1991–2020

Sourced from the Korea Meteorological Administration (기상청) under 공공누리 제1유형, attributed on every view.

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Coffee

Reference and costing tools for people buying and roasting green coffee.

For green buyers, importers, and roasters planning purchases around harvest windows and currency moves.

  • A 15-variety encyclopedia covering agronomy and cup profile
  • Origin harvest calendar for planning around picking windows
  • Landed-cost and cost-per-cup calculators, with brew-ratio modelling
  • Origin FX signals for coffee-producing currencies
  • Coffee features drawn from the Magazine, which is free to read
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Beer & Spirits

Recipe and yield tooling for brewers and distillers working in Korea.

For craft brewers and distillers sizing a grain bill before the grain is bought.

  • A 17-variety hop reference with brewing characteristics
  • Grain-bill to new-make yield calculator, moisture-corrected on an as-received basis and overridable per lot
  • A verified directory of Korean craft spirits producers
  • Saved scenario slots for the calculators
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Market intelligence

Snapshots that always say where the number came from and how old it is.

For analysts, traders, and policy or trade teams who need a number they can attribute and date.

  • KAMIS national average prices with the seasonal normal, and livestock and egg snapshots from EKAPEP, with the source named on each
  • US to Korea agri-food trade and USDA grain supply and demand data
  • Article-derived intelligence topics over a rolling 90-day window from an allow-listed source set
  • Freshness and coverage indicators on every snapshot, so a quiet feed looks quiet instead of looking current
  • Global reference prices and trade flows by partner country, from Korea Customs and UN Comtrade, with Premium

Article-derived signals are labelled as such and are never presented as official market, weather, or regulatory data.

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The digest, today's auction prices and the full weather desk, in both languages.

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  • Daily bilingual agriculture digest
  • Today's wholesale auction prices by market, and the last seven trading days
  • The complete KMA weather desk — all five views
  • Market and price snapshots with source labels
  • Magazine long-reads
  • Read up to 10 translated articles a month, Korean to English and back
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Premium

For operators and analysts tracking Korean agriculture, coffee, and brewing.

$19per month, billed annually
$228 billed yearlySave 21%
Auction Desk$276/year

$504/year in total

  • Everything in Free
  • Every translated article, no monthly limit
  • The full Coffee desk — varieties, harvest calendar, landed cost, origin FX
  • The full Beer & Spirits desk — hops, grain-bill yield, producer directory
  • Wholesale auction drill-down: price history since September 2026, price distribution, cross-market spread, origin and variety mix
  • Auction price alerts for an item at a market, checked nightly, in the app and by email
  • Monthly settlement price history at Seoul Garak
  • Workspaces and saved scenarios
  • Watchlists across market, coffee, and beverage series
  • JSON and CSV exports, subject to per-series rights
  • Alerts on thresholds and data staleness, in the app and by emailBeta
Team

Premium for up to five people on one bill, with a shared workspace.

$55per month, billed annually
$660 billed yearlySave 20%
Auction Desk$852/year

$1,512/year in total

  • Everything in Premium
  • Premium for up to five people, on one bill
  • A shared team workspace for watchlists, scenarios, and alerts
  • Priority on intelligence brief requests
  • Auction Desk API: lots, daily summaries and prices by grade as JSON or CSV, with Auction Desk on the plan
  • Scheduled CSV and JSON delivery of the series you followComing soon
  • Promotion-pressure data for Korea and the USComing soon
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Auction Desk

The individual lots behind the auction prices, ready to filter and take with you.

Premium and Team show how auction prices move. Auction Desk opens what sits underneath: each lot with its origin, variety and package, and the settlement price by grade and size, so you can find the lots you actually buy or sell and carry the numbers into your own model or deck.

  • The lot explorer: every auctioned lot for any item and market over the last 90 days, filterable by origin, variety and package

  • Price by grade: 특, 상, 중 and 하 prices at each market, the top-grade premium over time, and grade by size

  • CSV exports of lots and daily item summaries

For trade analysts and sourcing teams who have to show where a price came from, and for growers and co-ops checking what their packs fetched.

Requires Premium or Team

on Premium

$23per month, billed annually

$276 billed yearly

For you

on Team

$71per month, billed annually

$852 billed yearly

For every seat on the team

Billed with your plan, on the same invoice and billing period. Remove it any time and your plan stays as it is.

Starting a free trial? Add Auction Desk at checkout and the same 7 days cover it. It's billed with your plan from the day the trial ends.

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What each plan includes, and what Auction Desk adds on top of Premium or Team.

What each plan includes, and what Auction Desk adds on top of Premium or Team.
What you getFreePremiumTeam+ Auction DeskRequires Premium or Team
PriceFree$228/year$660/year+$276/year on Premium+$852/year on Team
People coveredYouYouUp to five peopleEveryone on your plan
Coffee and Beer & Spirits desks, workspaces, watchlists, exports and alertsNot includedIncludedIncludedWith your plan
Wholesale auction drill-down: price history since September 2026, price distribution, cross-market spread, origin and variety mixNot includedIncludedIncludedWith your plan
The lot explorer: every auctioned lot for any item and market over the last 90 days, filterable by origin, variety and packageNot includedNot includedNot includedIncluded
Price by grade: 특, 상, 중 and 하 prices at each market, the top-grade premium over time, and grade by sizeNot includedNot includedNot includedIncluded
CSV exports of lots and daily item summariesNot includedNot includedNot includedIncluded

Transparent about sources and freshness

Every figure names its publisher and the day it describes. Auction prices are Ag Digest's calculation from aT's public wholesale market data, with origin as declared by the shipper and prices per kilogram converted from package prices. Article-derived signals are never presented as official market, weather or regulatory data.

Source-backed
Every story links back to its original Korean or English source, and every chart names the publisher behind it: aT, KAMIS, Korea Customs, UN Comtrade, USDA or the Korea Meteorological Administration.
Freshness windows
Auction prices are stored nightly after the markets settle, the digest refreshes through the day, each item is dated, and a stale feed is flagged rather than quietly shown as current.
Export rights respected
Exports check per-series rights. If any requested series is restricted, the whole export is refused rather than partially delivered.

Frequently asked questions

Plans, the trial, Auction Desk and where the numbers come from, in short answers. The guides go deeper.

Still have a question?

The guides explain every chart and how each number is calculated. For anything else, write to us from the help page.

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The daily digest, the weekly newsletter, the Magazine, the entire KMA weather desk, today's auction prices by market with the last seven trading days, and the standard market snapshots are free. Premium covers the auction price history since September 2026, auction price alerts, the Coffee and Beer & Spirits desks, the global dataset view, and the workspace layer: scenarios, watchlists, exports and alerts. The Auction Desk add-on covers the lots themselves, price by grade and size, and CSV exports.

Team covers up to five people on one bill, with a shared workspace for watchlists, scenarios and alerts, your intelligence brief requests go to the front of the queue, and with Auction Desk on the plan the team gets the Auction Desk API. Scheduled data delivery and promotion-pressure data will come to Team first. Working alone? Premium has every desk and tool.

Auction Desk is an add-on to Premium or Team, billed with your plan on the same invoice and billing period. On Team it covers every seat. Add it at checkout, or later from the billing page in your account, where you see the exact charge before you confirm. Removing it leaves your plan as it is, and the unused time is credited to your next invoices. With Auction Desk on your plan, change plans from that billing page too.

Start either paid plan free for 7 days without entering a card. Add a card before the trial ends to keep your plan; if you don't, your account goes back to the free plan and nothing is charged. Add Auction Desk at checkout and the same 7 days cover it.

With Premium or Team, set an alert on any item at any of the five markets: a price per kilogram to cross, or a change of more than a chosen percentage against the previous trading day. Alerts are checked once a night after the markets settle and recorded in your workspace; a rule set to email delivery also sends a digest to your account address, in your language. Because the check runs nightly, an email arrives the morning after the auction, so don't rely on it for same-day decisions. A day with fewer than ten lots never fires an alert. Turn delivery off any time in Profile & preferences, or from the email itself.

Lot-level auction prices at the five markets begin on 2 September 2026 and are stored nightly. Premium shows the price history from that day on, by trading day over 90 days and by week or month over longer periods; the Auction Desk add-on shows every lot of the last 90 days. Prices by grade come from aT's settlement records for every public wholesale market in Korea, and each chart states the market and the dates it covers. Premium shows the pooled settlement history; the Auction Desk add-on shows it by grade and size.

Yes, on Team with Auction Desk on the plan: lots, daily summaries and prices by grade as JSON or CSV, at no extra price. The team's owner creates and revokes the keys on the billing page of their account; members use them. A key stops working the moment the plan or the add-on ends.

aT's public wholesale market auction and settlement data for every auction figure, KAMIS for national average prices, Korea Customs and UN Comtrade for trade flows, USDA for grain supply and demand, the Korea Meteorological Administration for everything on the weather desk, EKAPEP for livestock snapshots, and public Korean and English agriculture reporting for the news. Each surface links back to its source.

The digest refreshes continuously throughout the day, auction prices are stored every night after the markets settle, and every item is dated so you can judge freshness at a glance.

Yes. Switch plans or cancel anytime from the billing portal — Stripe prorates a plan change, and a cancellation keeps your access until the end of the current period. Payments already made are non-refundable, as described in the Terms.

Yes. The product is bilingual throughout. Korean source content is the editorial source of truth, and English briefs follow.

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