The Agriculture industry holds 320 providers and 1,186 APIs, with membership computed from tags rather than a fixed list. The bands tell the story before any name does: on the industry page, 199 providers are minimal, 70 emerging, 33 thin and 18 developing. Not one is listed as strong or exemplar.
The equipment makers people think of first are not at the top. John Deere scores 10.8, minimal, with 8 APIs counted and no published count. Bayer is at 11.3 and Syngenta at 17.4, both with zero APIs listed.
Who leads, by function
| Function | Provider | Score (industry page) | APIs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local food discovery | Rett fra Bonden | 53.1 | 7 (4 published) |
| Greenhouse sensing | 30MHz | 52.6 | 127 (4 published) |
| Weather and ag data | DTN | 50.9 | 99 (37 published) |
| Farm data platform | Climate FieldView | 44.5 | 5 (1 published) |
| Equipment | AGCO | 43.8 | 58 (3 published) |
| Positioning | Trimble | 41.1 | 20 (2 published) |
| Equipment | CNH | 37.4 | 8 (1 published) |
Three patterns in the list
The leader is a non-profit. Rett fra Bonden is a Norwegian discovery layer for local food, a registry of 1,900+ farms, farm shops and markets that its own description says is built to be read by AI agents first. It outranks every equipment maker and agrochemical company in the vertical, and its provider page puts it at 43.9 on Agent Readiness, agent-ready.
The industry page lags the provider pages. 30MHz’s own page now reads 55.2, strong, and Rett fra Bonden’s reads 50.0. The vertical does have a strong provider; the rollup has not caught up. If you rank from the industry page, check the provider page before you quote a band.
Data vendors outscore machinery. DTN publishes 37 APIs, the deepest published surface in the top tier, covering weather, agronomy and commodity data. AGCO lists 58 APIs but only 3 published. In agriculture, the companies selling information have done more of the contract work than the companies selling tractors.
Where to start
For field and parcel data, start at DTN’s Farm Intelligence entries, such as the Land Crop API, which meters by record and says so in its headers. For farm-operations data, Climate FieldView and AGCO are the two equipment-adjacent records with published contracts. For anything branded Deere, the catalog has no published contract to give you yet.
Takeaway
Agriculture is a big vertical with a thin top. The 320-provider count is real, but 269 of them sit in the bottom two bands, and the strongest records belong to data companies and a food directory, not the brands that own the field. Browse the full cohort at apis.io/industries/agriculture/.