v2026.08.15LatestA clearer first visit, a premium workspace that explains itself in plain language, and follow buttons on the market page.
Getting oriented
A short introduction for new readers at the top of the digest, covering what Ag Digest is, which desks exist, and which are free to read. Regular readers see the feed exactly as before.
Plans now say who each desk is for — weather for growers and farm operators, coffee for green buyers and roasters, beer and spirits for brewers and distillers, market intelligence for analysts and trade teams.
Market
Follow buttons on global reference cards — Arabica, Robusta, maize, U.S. SRW wheat, Thai rice, world sugar and U.S. natural gas can each be saved to a watchlist in one click. Signed-out visitors are returned to the same view after signing in.
Premium workspace
Alerts read in plain language — each alert names the series it watches and the units it is measured in instead of an internal code, and a fired alert says what was observed and which threshold it crossed. An alert that can no longer be evaluated is marked instead of looking healthy.
Team-shared alert emails reach the whole team. Shared alerts were already visible to every member in the app, but the email digest only went to whoever created the rule.
Search and filter your watchlists by name, code or note in English and Korean, narrow to one item type, and read mixed lists at a glance with type chips.
Mute a saved watchlist item to keep it saved but out of your briefs, instead of removing it outright — and confirm before removing one.
Failed data exports can be retried instead of stopping at a dead end, exports that cannot run explain why before you request them, and each export's progress is easier to follow.
Saved scenarios show readable labels for every input instead of raw field names, and group by calculator so a coffee scenario is easy to pick out.
Save landed-cost calculations from the Coffee page, matching the brewer and spirits calculators.
Privacy
Analytics run only if you agree, refusing costs you nothing, and a footer control reopens the notice whenever you want to change your answer.
Fixes & polish
Fixed the subscription confirmation page, which could tell a subscriber their payment may not have gone through moments after it succeeded, and now points to the workspace they just unlocked rather than to billing settings.
Articles read newest-first across both columns. The feed previously filled one column before the other, so the ordering could look shuffled.
Clearer source credits on every article — publication names that appeared squashed and blurry are legible again, shown the same way everywhere, and long names are no longer cut off.
Korean readers no longer see stray English on article cards and translation badges.
The intelligence brief request form says what each step asks for before asking for contact details, and makes clear a phone number is never taken as permission to call.
Your Google profile photo now appears instead of a default avatar, and is saved for returning accounts that were missing it. An uploaded photo still takes priority.
Missing articles now return the correct not-found response for browsers and search engines.
v2026.07.25Weather intelligence, premium coffee & spirits tools, expanded trade data, and a public release-history page.
Weather intelligence
Live Korea weather section — daily observations, weather warnings (기상특보) with forecaster commentary, soil temperature and moisture, radar and satellite imagery, and a solar-term (절기) crop-risk explorer, from the Korea Meteorological Administration.
Honest context — daily observations show how today compares to the long-run average, shown as context rather than cause.
Premium workspace
Coffee tools — a brew-ratio/extraction calculator and a processing-methods reference.
Spirits tools — a grain-bill to new-make yield calculator and a maturation/cask-type reference.
Saved coffee watchlists, price alerts delivered as a daily email digest you can unsubscribe from in one tap, and a workspace data export for premium members.
Coffee news in context — see how coffee coverage lines up against benchmark price moves, shown as context, not cause.
Coffee & trade data
Daily ICO coffee price indicator — the ICO composite indicator with a full year of history on the coffee page.
On-demand article translation — request a full translation of any article with one tap.
Branded share images and short share links for every article.
US–Korea agricultural trade panel, from U.S. Census Bureau trade data.
Fixes & polish
Release history page — a new page, linked from the site footer, lists what shipped in each Ag Digest release.
Fixed a broken Korea weather chart.
Market-data exports are now safer to open in spreadsheet apps.
Harvest calendar — 15 origins with typical harvest, flowering, and export windows (reference-only, no prices).
Embedded Magazine module — inline coffee features on the News tab.
Daily exchange rates — USD/KRW, USD/BRL, and USD/IDR on the coffee cost tools, refreshed daily.
Cost calculator — green → CIF → Korean landed cost → roasted → cost-per-cup, bilingual, from your own inputs.
Spirits intelligence
Verified Korea producer registry — six primary-source-verified producers (Three Societies/Ki One, Kimchangsoo, Hwayo, HiteJinro, Lotte Chilsung, Kooksoondang).
v2026.07.17.1USDA barley data, Korea coffee imports, and coffee-page badges.
Highlights
USDA barley supply data charted for brewers, connected to verified barley, malt, and cask trade data in the spirits workspace.
Korea coffee-imports view added to Coffee Intelligence.
Freshness and source-rights badges on the coffee page.
Loading indicators and accessibility contrast fixes in the workspace.
v2026.07.17News feeds expand beyond Korea with ten English-language trade-press sources.
Highlights
Ten verified English-language trade-press sources added — Daily Coffee News, Sprudge, Global Coffee Report, Brewbound, The Drinks Business, The Spirits Business, USDA AMS, farmdoc daily, Brownfield Ag News, and Agri-Pulse — with an All/Korea/US region filter beside the date controls.
English-native articles keep their original headline, summary, and link with attribution, and are never machine-translated.
Premium intelligence cards now link members to their live workspace tools, and are honest about what isn't built yet.
Five World Bank grain, sugar, and gas price series (maize, US SRW wheat, Thai rice, world sugar, US natural gas), 2016→present, that you can track and set alerts on.
v2026.07.16.6Coffee futures positioning and a natural gas reference join the public-domain data feeds.
Highlights
Coffee futures positioning (CFTC) — weekly non-commercial vs. commercial net positions and open interest, charted back to 2016, with a plain-language explainer (context, not a forecast).
Natural gas reference (daily) on the beverages page — five years of Henry Hub spot, framed as a global input reference, not a Korean city-gas tariff.
v2026.07.16.5Two public-domain market feeds join the data set: CFTC coffee positioning and EIA natural gas.
Highlights
CFTC Commitments of Traders for Coffee C — weekly open interest and commercial/non-commercial net positioning, 2016→present.
EIA Henry Hub daily natural gas spot — an energy-input reference for roasting, brewing, and distilling context.
v2026.07.16.4Coffee Intelligence gains a news-in-context timeline on the benchmark chart.
Highlights
"News in context" tab on Coffee Intelligence — tagged coffee reporting overlaid on the benchmark chart as numbered flags placed by publication month, with a matching detail list (publication date, source, shown as context not cause).
v2026.07.16.3The beverage premium callout now links straight into the live workspace.
Highlights
Beverage "Premium preview" callout now links directly into the live account workspace (watchlists, scenarios, alerts, exports), with updated bilingual copy.
v2026.07.16.2Account settings and the beverage workspace switcher get a layout refresh.
Highlights
Account settings now use a scalable left-sidebar layout on desktop, with a scrollable section row on mobile — no more wrapped tab labels.
The Beer & Brewing / Spirits & Whisky workspace switcher is now one consistent control on both beverage pages with a clear active state.
v2026.07.16.1Premium workspace and a login fix.
Premium workspace
New account workspace area (EN/KO): watchlists with live market data and freshness/status, saved scenarios (wired into the brewer and spirits calculators), threshold price alerts with a daily check, plan-gated CSV/JSON exports, and pro-tier team management with roles.
Honest plan states throughout — login-required → plan upsell → real UI; email alerts marked "coming soon," never a dead toggle.
Fixes & polish
Fixed post-login redirect — signing in could strand a returning user on the login page with a valid session.
USDA coffee supply data — 30 marketing-year series across Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and South Korea (production, exports, imports, ending stocks, domestic consumption).
Coffee chart news markers — reviewed-only news markers on the benchmark chart with an accessible detail list (event vs. publication date, source, relationship, confidence, shown as context not cause).
"Coffee news in context" module beside the benchmarks.
Premium foundations
Foundations for teams, watchlists, saved scenarios, alerts, and exports, with owner/team access controls.
Exports respect your plan's data access.
v2026.07.14.2Beverage Intelligence gets a premium gate and a public preview.
Highlights
Beverage Intelligence premium access and a public marketing preview.
Coffee chart preview refinement and roadmap detail.
v2026.07.14.1Launch polish patch.
Highlights
Coffee intelligence and the ten-year Arabica/Robusta history placed behind Premium/Pro access.
Public Coffee marketing previews that don't expose subscriber-only data.
Digest side rails now respond to the selected topic and keep freshness visible.
Replaced About with Intelligence in the main navigation, with verified mobile menu locking/close behavior.
Refined the Beer & Spirits workspaces, planned-data cards, and premium preview.
v2026.07.14Landing-page intelligence asides, coffee/beverage charts, and Korea Customs trade data.
Shipped
Filter-aware landing-page intelligence asides, related Magazine links, and improved launch-facing copy.
Coffee and Beer & Spirits charts, including ten years of monthly World Bank Arabica and Robusta references.
Korea Customs trade data by partner country.
Mobile navigation scroll locking and close-on-navigation behavior.
Credited Wikimedia photography for Magazine coming-soon cards.
v2026.07.13Avatar management, bookmarks, and community translation polish — the first tagged release.
Shipped
Avatar upload and management.
Bookmark/read action fixes and UI states.
Community image caption translation support.
Footer, logo, loading, and avatar UI polish.
v2026.07.12Magazine polish and the subscription funnel ships.
Magazine
Magazine editorial redesign — landing renamed to "The Digest," reading and footer polish.
Published the Garlic Belt feature with a real province choropleth map.
Enforced the publication gate so unfinished drafts can't leak live.
Account & billing
Subscription sign-up flow.
Full-screen split login/register, with a password show/hide control.
Added an account support center and community controls.
Polish
Branded email templates and clearer footer logo legibility.
v2026.07.11Magazine launches; the market chart and account surfaces expand.
Magazine
Bilingual Magazine foundation shipped, with the flagship feature "Apples of South Korea" published.
Magazine promoted to primary navigation, with an editorial hero and full-width article layout.
Market data
Chart wired to real KAMIS national-average prices, with the live commodity catalog expanded and results grouped by commodity.
Corrected livestock categories and added Korean beef (한우).
Polish
Loading placeholders across the app for faster-feeling page loads.
Bilingual sign-in and security emails.
Fixed a feed slowdown.
v2026.07.10Market intelligence detail pages, KAMIS pricing, and new accounts.
Market intelligence
USDA grain context in the right rail, refreshed weekly.
KAMIS market price-history — backfill plus forward collection — with an interactive price chart.
Market intelligence detail pages for right-rail topics.
Accounts & billing
New sign-in and accounts — unified sign-in, localized pages, and legacy-account linking.
Localized account overview, billing, and security pages.
Subscribe page redesigned as a conversion-focused product page.
Fixes & polish
Full-article translation is now opt-in.
Graceful fallback for a missing or empty article body.
Localized the right rail; footer link and navigation polish.
v2026.07.09Sharper article freshness and richer right-rail intelligence.
Highlights
Right-rail intelligence modules with article signal snapshots.
More reliable newest-first article ordering.
v2026.01.27Better link previews.
Highlights
Better link previews when Ag Digest pages are shared.
v2026.01.12Reading, bookmarking, and more article sources.
Highlights
Full article text for more sources.
Read/unread status for articles.
Bookmark button and loading states for the article list.
A Reddit share button and mobile navigation update.
v2026.01.07Early sources, translation, and the landing page take shape.
Highlights
First live news source (Nongmin Newspaper), with more added soon after.
Machine translation of Korean articles.
Landing page with pagination and an about page.
Site navigation, footer, and favicon polish.
v2025.12.30Project inception.
Highlights
Ag Digest begins.
Early sign-in and an article-reading prototype.
`v2025.12.30` through `v2026.01.27` and `v2026.07.09` through `v2026.07.12` are a backfilled reconstruction of this project's early history — no GitHub Release existed for that period. Dates are the day the grouped work shipped; groupings are by theme, not a literal change-by-change list.
`v2026.07.13` onward mirrors this repo's actual [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/shmaplex/korea-agdigest/releases).
There is a ~5.5 month gap between `v2026.01.27` and `v2026.07.09` — the project was dormant over that period.
Entries before v2026.07.13 are a reconstruction of this project's git history; entries from v2026.07.13 onward mirror this repo's GitHub Releases.
