Free. No key. No signup.
USDA farm data, one fetch away
curl "https://ag.morningbrief.link/v1/grain/prices?limit=3"Live crop prices, market forecasts, export sales, shipments, crop conditions, and farmland values as simple JSON feeds — for your app or your AI agent. Every card below is live data pulled straight from the APIs documented under Docs. The USDA's own API needs a key; ours doesn't.
Agriculture — Magpie
Market prices, forecasts, export sales, shipments, and crop conditions. Base URL: https://ag.morningbrief.link
Land — Farmland
Land values and cash rents, all 50 states. Base URL: https://land.morningbrief.link
Free USDA data APIs
This site publishes two free APIs built on 100% USDA data. No key, no signup — every read endpoint is open, and you can try them live in the cards above or start from the docs.
Magpie (https://ag.morningbrief.link) covers farm markets: daily grain bids, livestock and dairy prices, fertilizer prices, crop condition ratings, planting and harvest progress, the monthly WASDE supply-and-demand forecast, weekly export sales, and export shipments.
Farmland (https://land.morningbrief.link) covers farmland values and cash rents for all 50 states, updated once a year.
Ten free web tools
- Price Finder — compare grain prices by region and see where your crop is worth the most right now.
- Market Outlook — the USDA's monthly supply-and-demand estimates, in plain terms.
- Crop Health — crop condition ratings and harvest progress by state.
- Demand Tracker — who's buying US farm exports, updated weekly.
- Shipment Check — are contracted exports actually shipping, and where to.
- Input Costs — fertilizer prices and their recent trend.
- Livestock Prices — cattle and hog prices from USDA-reported markets.
- Dairy Prices — weekly dairy product prices.
- Land Lookup — farmland values by state and county.
- Rent Lookup — cash rents by state and county.
Built for AI agents too: Magpie speaks the Model Context Protocol (POST https://ag.morningbrief.link/mcp), and a machine-readable endpoint index lives at /api-index.json.