Talking Farmer
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Voice field journal for beekeepers · Launching 2027

Speak at the hive.
It's on record.

No pen in a gloved hand. Say "Hive 7, mite treatment done" and you get a dated record for hive 7. Over a season, those records become each hive's history and your apiary's yearly results.

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Works in mountain apiaries with no signal.

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Talking Farmer screen concept: voice recording in the field, structured text, and per-hive history with a strength chart
Screen concept (Korean UI)

Speaking at the apiary

Hive 7, mite treatment done.

Structured record · saved after you confirm

HiveNo. 7
TaskMite treatment
NoteTreatment complete
Date2026-09-04

Example phrases. Nothing is saved until you confirm it. The app itself works in Korean.

From one sentence to a hive's history

Record, review, history. Three screens. Records for the same hive line up over time, down to a colony-strength trend.

1 · Record

Talk while you inspect

Hive condition, queen present or not, colony strength, laying pattern. One button starts recording.

2 · Review

Sorted into fields for you

"Queen's there, strength level 2, a bit weak" becomes separate status fields. Fix only what's wrong, then save.

3 · History

A history for every hive

See one hive's records from March to August, with its strength trend, on one screen.

Built for the apiary

We started with what 20 young beekeepers asked for most in our survey: voice records, comparing with last year, and a yearly ledger.

Records with no signal

Recording and basic sorting work in apiaries with no coverage. The rest finishes once you're back online.

"Harvested 18 kg of acacia yesterday"

Knows hive numbers

"Hive 3" never turns into 3 kg. Traditional Korean units are converted to kilograms.

"Two queen cells in hive 3"

Confirm before saving

You see the sorted record first and only confirmed entries are kept. Unclear ones wait in an evening review inbox.

Evening inbox: 3 to review

Apiary ledger

Log treatments, syrup and moving costs per apiary and compare profit. Honey per colony and cost per colony are calculated for you.

"Gave hive 12 two liters of syrup"

Warnings you'd miss

Treatment withdrawal periods, mite thresholds and swarming signs, matched to your records. 63 beekeeping topics are built in.

Check withdrawal period

Gloves stay on

Large buttons and a field mode let you work without taking your gloves off. It tells you which hives you skipped.

4 hives not inspected today

Hyunseok Seo holding a capped honey frame above his head at his apiary An apiary surrounded by mountains in Goesan, Chungbuk, with rows of hives
Hyunseok Seo at his apiary in Goesan, Chungbuk, ringed by mountains. About 50 colonies. Photos: Chukkyung News

Who makes it

Built by a beekeeper whose 30 hives came out of winter as 6

Hyunseok Seo studied animal science and spent 11 years in livestock companies and an R&D lab before starting to keep bees in Goesan, Chungbuk, in 2025. He grew from 10 hives to 30. The next spring, 6 were alive.

Figuring out what went wrong meant having records, but hands are always busy at the hive. So he started building a journal you keep by talking.

10→30hives, first year (2025)
6alive, spring 2026
~50colonies today

Your records come back as decisions

Records don't stop at being kept. Ask, and you get daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports.

Just ask

"How did hive 3
do this year?"

Inspection and task records are pulled together into that hive's year.

Per hive

Strength trend

Colony strength from every inspection, drawn as one line.

Per apiary

Profit comparison

Compare apiaries, treatment and moving costs included.

Per year

Honey per colony

This year's results next to last year's.

A shared baseline

Yearly colony loss

As more beekeepers log, compare yourself with the regional average.

AI and data don't replace the beekeeper. They help the beekeeper judge more accurately.
Paraphrased from Hyunseok Seo's interview · Chukkyung News, Sept 4, 2026 (Korean)

Beta beekeepers wanted

Try it at your apiary this winter

We're shaping it with young beekeepers. Beta testers get the app before launch and help decide what comes next.

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