Season guide
Central Korea's crop calendar sets practical windows for rainfall logging, orchard walks, and briefing delivery. Use this guide to align your farm tasks with forecast work.
01
Rice: Gather prior three seasons of weigh-station receipts; note any block rotation changes.
Orchard: Pruning records and frost damage photos from dormant season help maturity models.
Action: Email records for a winter review memo (₩120,000 optional add-on).
02
Rice: Log transplant dates by block; note cold nights on upland vegetable overlap plots.
Orchard: Bloom date observations; late frost entries with approximate low temperature.
Action: Book plot data review if last season's records have gaps.
03
Rice: Weekly rainfall notes through July — critical for grain fill charts.
Vegetables: Record heat-stress days and irrigation restrictions.
Action: Confirm briefing slot; submit June–July logs by 31 August.
04
Rice: Receive seasonal briefing; choose harvest window scenario.
Orchard: Orchard walk for harvest timeline; colour break sampling.
Action: Final reports delivered; compare actual yield after threshing for next year's calibration.
| Crop | Book briefing by | Key field signal | Typical delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rice (Chungju plain) | 1 September | Panicle visible in 60% of block | Mid-September |
| Apple (Fuji, Jecheon) | 25 August | First colour break on south slope | Early September |
| Cabbage (upland) | 15 August | Head formation in sample row | Late August |
Chungju cooperative gauges averaged 892 mm over the 2015–2024 growing seasons (April–October). Your briefing compares your farm's weekly readings against that decade line — not against national averages from Seoul.
